Connecting one wireless router and one ethernet to modem

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ramlawihassan

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I need to be able to connect bother my ethernet cable to my pc and a wireless router to the modem at the same time, but one of them disconnects due to the ISP rules.
i called the ISP and they said u need a technician to do that but i wanna try on my own.
i have a 50mb/s connection to play video games. and i need the router for my phones and any visitors.
 
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No, your PC needs to go via the router. Only one device can be connected directly to the modem, because your ISP will only be assigning you one IP address.

That router shouldn't reduce your speeds; it's quite a new model and should easily be able to handle upwards of 100Mb/s. You may have it misconfigured or set to limit the bandwidth available to any one PC. Check through the settings.

EDIT: These guys put 763Mb/s from the WAN side to the LAN ports. The router is capable of those speeds, so in your case it's almost certainly misconfigured.

Can you do a speedtest on one of the other devices, on your PC connected direct to the modem, and your PC via the router?
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try to link the modem to the wireless router on the wan connection, and link the pc with cable to a lan port on the wifi router

after that the wifi clients and pc will share the modem connection though the router. any settings you have on the pc for the connection will need to be set also on the router admin page. lan/wifi you can probably leave on auto, just make sure to set a wifi password, wpa2 type encryption preferably.
 
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ramlawihassan

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ramlawihassan

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Guys i connected my pc directly to the modem and i got a constant very high download speed but when i connect it to the router(netgear r6300) it drops to 20%, so what i wanna do is get to internet connections from the modem, one to a wireless router and one ethernet to the pc.
I tried it but one of them stops. Is there any way they could could both work from the modem directly!
 
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No, your PC needs to go via the router. Only one device can be connected directly to the modem, because your ISP will only be assigning you one IP address.

That router shouldn't reduce your speeds; it's quite a new model and should easily be able to handle upwards of 100Mb/s. You may have it misconfigured or set to limit the bandwidth available to any one PC. Check through the settings.

EDIT: These guys put 763Mb/s from the WAN side to the LAN ports. The router is capable of those speeds, so in your case it's almost certainly misconfigured.

Can you do a speedtest on one of the other devices, on your PC connected direct to the modem, and your PC via the router?
 
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