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Re: Switch and Router Connected Directly to ONT
I ended up just replacing the T3200M entirely with the R7000 instead. Wi-Fi speeds upstairs are improved in the dead-spots before, but still could be alot better. I'll probably end up using the mesh network like you mentioned. Either that or do a couple cable drops in the house to improve the connection upstairs. Either way thanks to everyone for your guys input, it definitely helped push me in the right direction! Cheers.16KViews0likes3CommentsRe: Switch and Router Connected Directly to ONT
I'll give that setup a shot. From my understanding, wouldn't this make two separate networks in the house since I'm connecting to WAN on both devices? If I wanted to mesh the Wi-Fi networks by setting the same SSIDs and passwords would this cause a conflict or no? I just don't want everyone upstairs to have to log off and jump into a different network when they are in the basement for example.16KViews0likes5CommentsRe: Switch and Router Connected Directly to ONT
Is LAN to LAN for routers not a thing? I'm doing it right now from LAN3 of the T3200M to LAN1 on the D-Link which is also a router but I've switched the DHCP server off and assigned it a static IP. It communicates fine with the T3200M and my PiHole server. The only reason I had the R7000 in the garage to begin with was because whoever wired the house when it was built did one Ethernet run only in the house which terminated behind the TV on the main floor. The only way to get the recommended setup would be to wire the switch to a LAN port on the T3200M and just drag the cable across the floor which I don't really want to do.16KViews0likes1CommentRe: Switch and Router Connected Directly to ONT
I tried the alternate way but no dice it seems. Just nuked the internet completely and nothing worked at all. Sorry I'm not very network savvy so I might have been doing it wrong again but it went like this: ONT Port 1 -- WAN of R7000 -- LAN1 of R7000 going to LAN4 of T3200 through the wall run The default gateway of the T3200M would load, tell me internet was disconnected, but I was able to see the R7000 on the network connections list as 192.168.1.1. However trying to access the gateway of the R7000 led to a timeout.16KViews0likes12CommentsRe: Switch and Router Connected Directly to ONT
Hey thanks for the reply! Bear with me here as it might get confusing haha. When it was buttoned up my setup took the original Eth cable that was connected to port one of the ONT which ran through the walls and linked up with the Ethernet port inside behind the TV and connected that to the router instead. After I added the R7000 router it was more or less like so: Wall Ran Eth Cable -- Switch -- LAN1 of R7000 and from LAN2 of the R7000 it goes like so: LAN2 of R7000 -- Port 1 of ONT D-Link side of things of network is OK. Connected devices can communicate with each other and are able to use my PiHole that I set up, but the R7000 is pulling a 66.xxx ip address with a 74.xxx gateway so it can't. Now that I'm writing this up you'll probably be more confused by what I said. If that's the case I can take photos of what it was setup as and then upload them here 🙂 Thanks again for your help.16KViews0likes14CommentsSwitch and Router Connected Directly to ONT
Hey everyone, I have had an idea brewing for a bit now on how to fix the Wi-Fi upstairs. Long story short, we have a pretty big house that's been finished already. The previous owners only wired the first floor for Ethernet, and I've already ran a 100ft cable downstairs to the basement from the router to hard wire there. That leaves the upstairs above the garage basically a dead-zone for wireless. I'm talking speeds of around 1mbps when we have internet 750. So anyways, my idea was to connect port one of the ONT to a dumb switch that I have already, which then connects to a Nightgear R7000 setup in AP mode via the LAN port. I would still be using the T3200M and the Optik TV boxes as well. So basically it would go like this: ONT -> Switch -> R7000 in AP -> T3200M -> DLink in AP Quite a bit confusing, but please do let me know if you notice any glaring issues right off the bat. I've tried it once and made it work properly, we get speeds of 400Mbps upstairs now with pings of less than 5ms but I want to make sure I'm not exposing any security flaws or something along those lines to the outside. Thanks for your time everyone!Solved16KViews0likes16Comments