- Nov 18, 2015
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I have a setup providing my local ISP (I'm in rural part of Ireland) whereby my wireless broadband setup is cable modem (A) bridged with a separate wifi router (B) in the house.
This is fine except I needed to alter the DNS (for Netflix, unlocator) which ISP told me I could not access their cable modem. So I had to disable bridging and double NAT just so I can control my DNS. All not great, but still fine, nothing broken.
Catch is that double NATing is now preventing any possible peer to peer connectivity so this is proving a headache. Just moved in and previous owner had installed ethernet ports and run cat5 in various rooms in the house.
So I'm thinking.....(rightly or wrongly). If I could take the WAN connection from (A) and split this (maybe via switch) with one end in the ethernet port and one end in the wireless router, I can then run a LAN (capable of peer to peer) and WIFI (double natting).
Obviously this is messy as both traffic would go back through the cable modem and thus I dunno how I prioritise traffic between them, or if I even need to?
Is what I'm proposing even possible? In truth the (B) router would be in use far more than (A).
This is fine except I needed to alter the DNS (for Netflix, unlocator) which ISP told me I could not access their cable modem. So I had to disable bridging and double NAT just so I can control my DNS. All not great, but still fine, nothing broken.
Catch is that double NATing is now preventing any possible peer to peer connectivity so this is proving a headache. Just moved in and previous owner had installed ethernet ports and run cat5 in various rooms in the house.
So I'm thinking.....(rightly or wrongly). If I could take the WAN connection from (A) and split this (maybe via switch) with one end in the ethernet port and one end in the wireless router, I can then run a LAN (capable of peer to peer) and WIFI (double natting).
Obviously this is messy as both traffic would go back through the cable modem and thus I dunno how I prioritise traffic between them, or if I even need to?
Is what I'm proposing even possible? In truth the (B) router would be in use far more than (A).
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