Can I disable my 1st router's DHCP and enable my 2nd router which has better signal.

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daichanyuji

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Sorry for my bad english folks.. anyways..
here's my problem i have my house connected with a LTE connection, my ISP provided me with an POE antenna and a router.. which only connects up to 7 devices... now i bought a new asus wireless router to bridge it in the ISP's modem.. because the signal is too weak.. now im thinking if i disable the DHCP in my ISP's router then ENABLE DHCP in my asus router in bridge mode.. so i can connect more than 7 devices at the same time... will it work? or not? what should i do or what can you suggests folks about this.. thanks..
 
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Yes and no. You could I suppose have the Asus give out the IP addresses and have the gateway and such point back tot he LTE device.

Problem is the number of devices is not limited only by the DHCP there are likely other things that limit it like mac table sizes and such. Many times this limitation is because they feel you would get poor performance if you ran more and don't want to deal with the explaining over utilization of bandwidth concept to stupid people.

What you could do though is run your asus router as a actual router. This would make everything you connect to the asus to appear to come from a single IP address. You could then hook up 100's of device if you really wanted. The downside of this is that you are run...
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bill001g

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Yes and no. You could I suppose have the Asus give out the IP addresses and have the gateway and such point back tot he LTE device.

Problem is the number of devices is not limited only by the DHCP there are likely other things that limit it like mac table sizes and such. Many times this limitation is because they feel you would get poor performance if you ran more and don't want to deal with the explaining over utilization of bandwidth concept to stupid people.

What you could do though is run your asus router as a actual router. This would make everything you connect to the asus to appear to come from a single IP address. You could then hook up 100's of device if you really wanted. The downside of this is that you are run multiple NAT which makes anything related to port forwarding extremely hard.......but in most LTE installs the ISP is doing NAT in front of you anyway so it doesn't matter.
 
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