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Router behind T3200M
I have a little bit of a unique situation. My townhouse layout doesn't allow for any type of new wiring. Telus recently installed fiber to my unit. I have the following: TV in basement TV and multiple media devices (in entertainment unit) in living room on main floor. TV in master bedroom on third floor. Computer room on 4th floor den/bedroom. The only wiring throughout the home, to all locations, is coax. Telus recently installed fiber to the living room. The ONT is beside entertainment unit in living room. T3200M is in intertainment unit. ONT goes via CAT5 to T3200M. Telus installed MOCA adapter from T3200M to wall cable jack via coax. PVR in living room is plugged into T3200M In basement and master bedroom, MOCA adapters connected to cable wall jacks, and ethernet cables go to set top boxes. In computer room, MOCA adapter connected to wall jack and CAT5 goes to ASUS 87U router. In living room, also have another ASUS router, 86U. Multiple WiFI devices roam the unit. In the computer room, the 87U is configured in access point mode. This allows the WiFi and ethernet ports of the router to be active; DHCP comes from T3200M. Router gets address from IP address fine from T3200M, and any computers or WiFI devices connected to 87U get IP address fine. Problem with 87U in access point mode is that it can't do much else. As you may or may not see, the TV set top boxes and the upstair computer are on the same physical cable via MOCA. Now I want to use my 86U in the living room in router mode so that I can use it as a VPN server as well as access a drive hung off of it for media and storage. I've tried connecting the 86U to the T3200M via ethernet (ethernet port to ethenet port), with some success. When this is done: T3200M ip address is 192.168.1.254 86U ip address is 192.186.1.1 87U ip address is 192.168.1.2 Devices connected to the 87U can get out to the Internet, and can see the media/storage share on the 86U. This is good. Devices connected to the 86U can connect to the Internet, and can see the media/storage share on the 86U. This is good. I can port forware RDP from T3200H to a specific computer hanging off of 87U, and a remote connection to that computer works. I enabled PPTP VPN server on 86U, but cannot connect to it remotely. On the T3200M I've port forwarded PPTP port and GRE to the 86U. On the 87U, it can successfully sync with the time servers (such as pool.ntp.org). On the 86U it cannot. Ping from 86U fails immediately because DNS resolution fails. I've tried 86U WAN port to T3200M, but couldn't get that to work. OK, pretty long winded. Anyways, is there any way that: a) keep my set top boxes connected via MOCA, b) have those setup top boxes work for both TV channels and all Internet connectivity (such as Youtube channel) the STB supports, c) keep my computer in the computer room connected via MOCA, d) any internal devices see each other (i.e. Windows PC can see another Windows machine or 86U storage/media device, or smart TV see media/storage device), e) run VPN server so that remote device (laptop, smartphone, etc.) can connect in from remote location and have access to all devices on LAN? I've read up a fair bit on this, including bridging the T3200M, but I can't seem to get the gist of how to set things up. It seems to me that it would helpful if the T3200M would allow user defined routes. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.6.4KViews0likes3Comments