Connecting two routers to one modem?

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deandiggity

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I just moved and have decided not to get cable. With Netflix, Amazon Prime, Blu rays, and torrents I can watch everything I care about--- with the exception of baseball games.

I want to use a service like Unblock-Us to gain access to local MLB games via MLB.TV. The problem is, the devices I have (Roku) doesn't allow DNS changes so I have to do it on the router. I don't want all my traffic affected and I don't want to make changes everynight to watch the game. I would also like to be able to watch on my phone/tablet.

Can I connect one router(main) and leave it unaltered, connect a second one and have the secondary one have DNS changes for Unblock-Us. I could connect the Roku to Router 2 and use the wireless on router 2 on my tablet.

That is if this is possible. If it's not, do I have any other good options?

Thanks.
 
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Yes that will work but kinda a pain. You now have the double nat issue with port mapping but it may not matter if, most a gaming console issue.

Not sure if you can trick the roku or not. Most machine accept 2 DNS server in case the first is down. It will always try the first but if it does not respond at all it will try the second. So lets say you were using server 8.8.8.8 and 4.2.2.2 as DNS servers in your DHCP server in your router. In almost all cases 8.8.8.8 would be used but if you were to put in a firewall rule that says the ip of the roku could not get to 8.8.8.8 it would fail and try the 4.2.2.2 as a backup.

Now if that does not work you could just disable the DHCP in your router and load a DHCP server on one of your...
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bill001g

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Yes that will work but kinda a pain. You now have the double nat issue with port mapping but it may not matter if, most a gaming console issue.

Not sure if you can trick the roku or not. Most machine accept 2 DNS server in case the first is down. It will always try the first but if it does not respond at all it will try the second. So lets say you were using server 8.8.8.8 and 4.2.2.2 as DNS servers in your DHCP server in your router. In almost all cases 8.8.8.8 would be used but if you were to put in a firewall rule that says the ip of the roku could not get to 8.8.8.8 it would fail and try the 4.2.2.2 as a backup.

Now if that does not work you could just disable the DHCP in your router and load a DHCP server on one of your PC. You can in most dhcp server put in a static DHCP entry for any mac address. You can give different mac addresses different DNS servers if you like. Although in home networks the DHCP server is also the gateway address it does not have to be so any machine could be the dhcp server
 
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