wifi faster than ethernet? help with ONT

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Hi everyone, it would be great if someone could help me out here.
I have an ONT (Optical Network Terminal) that has only one active ethernet port but i need to connect it to 6 separate ethernet ports to have it around the house.
Will something like an ethernet switch work? What should i use.

Also, I have the Asus RT-AC68u and im getting around 200Mbps on speedtest.net.
However, if i connect the ethernet cable that goes to my router to my laptop instead, i get 90Mbps.

 
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DD-WRT tends to be confusing since it has so many options. In the wireless setting screen you want to run as access point. There should be another screen that you can choose between router and gateway. In that screen you want to choose gateway. These should be the default settings.

I get frustrated with all the menus in dd-wrt and normally configure my routers by editing the underlying files so I am not a good person to ask where they hid what on what screen.

Running as a router is they way the box is configured by default if you configure nothing. A simple reset should return the router to the default it had right after you load the dd-wrt image if you get really stuck.
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Any 6 port switch or above would work fine. Just be sure its a switch and not a hub. Also, make sure that the ethernet port on your ONT is an internet port. They sometimes have specialty ports not used for internet.

Your laptop and router are going to handle throughput differently. Those speeds there don't necessarily reflect performance. Ethernet connections will be faster and more stable 99% of the time. The only way a wired connection could be slower is if its an ancient cable.
 
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Are you sure an ethernet switch would work when connected to an ONT? I thought it only works when connected to a router
 
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The optical Network will terminate to a OPT Modem providing 1 or More Lan Ports (typically 1)
So people Use a 4 port Router which then allows additional connection capability like Wifi and Standard Lan Cables

The Problem is Most Routers still use 10/100 Lan Ports so the Wifi using up to 300/600mbps can be up to 3+ times faster than a Lan connection even though your computer is 10/100/1000 the lan is limited to 100 the wifi ends up being a faster connection
 
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A switch very technical could work the ISP tends to not allow it to work. If they do the will charge you for each ip address. You really need some form of router.

The asus router you have is one of the faster ones and it should not slow you down. It should run faster or at the same speed as wireless. It is hard to say why it does not. It generally is some form of cable problem where certain devices have issues with a cable but others do not.
 
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I need cable as my router cant cover all areas of the house.
I have a DD-WRT Cisco E1500, can i use that to change one active port into 4 seperate active ports?
If so, what mode should the E1500 be in
 
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Sorry I was confusing. You CAN have a switch you just can not plug it directly into the ONT. You can plug it behind any form of router to get more ports. The cisco e1500 is a router that you did not mention before. If you are using this device plugged directly into the ONT then you want to plug its wan port into the ONT and run the other ports as lan....this is your pretty standard out of the box install. DD-WRT can do many other things with the ports but you likely want it run it standard. If you have your asus router plug into the ONT then you want to use the e1500 as a AP. This is basically a wireless switch. You would turn off the DHCP and use the LAN ports only. You can still use the wireless. You can set a DD-WRT router to AP mode if you like but all it really does is let make the WAN port into a LAN port giving you one extra.
 
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So what mode should i set the DD-WRT e1500 router to when i connect it to the ONT?
So this is the route which it goes. Fibre > ONT > E1500> 4 separate Ethernet ports > RT-AC68U/Other routers at other lan ports around the house
 
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You want to run it as a router with the wan port to the ONT. It should obtain a IP from the ONT via DHCP and then share it using NAT with the lan ports. You will of course need to configure DHCP/ip for your lan but this is your pretty normal router configuration and most this is setup by default.
 
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DD-WRT tends to be confusing since it has so many options. In the wireless setting screen you want to run as access point. There should be another screen that you can choose between router and gateway. In that screen you want to choose gateway. These should be the default settings.

I get frustrated with all the menus in dd-wrt and normally configure my routers by editing the underlying files so I am not a good person to ask where they hid what on what screen.

Running as a router is they way the box is configured by default if you configure nothing. A simple reset should return the router to the default it had right after you load the dd-wrt image if you get really stuck.
 
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