How to upgrade my parents at&t wifi

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Hey guys, I turn to you when my back is against the wall on computer and other things. So here's the situation this time.

My dad's birthday is coming up and I want to surprise both my parents with a Wi-Fi upgrade without going to Comcast(they don't like that company). I've only found on here are forums from several years ago that you can use a Wi-Fi router from, for example, ASUS and have better performance and 5 GHz channel(I believe it is called something else.).

You question is if it is possible and what steps are needed for me to do so? This is coming from my phone without Wi-Fi, so this is how bad the situation is at the moment.

Have a spooky day! Cause, you know, October and junk.
 
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If you are going to use an Asus router, I would do the following

    ■ Login to the ATT router and determine the DHCP range (high and low)
    ■ Find a number 1 to 254 that is NOT in that range. If there are none then you need to change the DHCP range on the ATT router. For discussion let's pick 254
    ■ With the Asus router NOT connected to the main network, connect a laptop via wire to one of the LAN ports.
    ■ Login to the Asus router admin interface
    ■...
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Start by reading the sticky on using a router as an access point -- http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/36406-43-convert-wireless-router-wireless-access-point

Asus routers work very well as access points because they have a one-button toggle in the user interface that switches from router to access point. If you mess up, you can just factory reset the router and start over. No harm no foul.

You connect the LAN port on the Asus to your primary router with an ethernet cable and turn OFF the WIFI on the ATT router.
 
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kanewolf, I looked into it and that's what I'm going to be using as a AP. The problem therein lies that the router is connected via the Ethernet of at&t's box to the Ethernet of the ASUS Wi-Fi router, correct? If so, what step do I go from there? If not, what step did I miss?
 
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If you are going to use an Asus router, I would do the following

    ■ Login to the ATT router and determine the DHCP range (high and low)
    ■ Find a number 1 to 254 that is NOT in that range. If there are none then you need to change the DHCP range on the ATT router. For discussion let's pick 254
    ■ With the Asus router NOT connected to the main network, connect a laptop via wire to one of the LAN ports.
    ■ Login to the Asus router admin interface
    ■ Assign the the .254 address to the WAN address. -- Set WAN address to static and assign 192.168.x.254 (where x is the right subnet for the ATT router).
    ■ Toggle the Asus router mode to Access Point
    ■ Wait for the reboot. Then just for good measure unplug and re-plug the Asus
    ■ You will have to set a static IP on your laptop (temporarily). -- Set it to 192.168.x.10 (again in the correct subnet)
    ■ Connect via wire to the Asus
    ■ Verify that you can get to the admin interface of the Asus by typing 192.168.x.254 in the address bar of a browser
    ■ If you can then you are good to go. If not then you will have to factory reset the router and start over.
    ■ Assuming you can get to the admin interface, then set the laptop back to DHCP.
    ■ Connect an ethernet cable from a LAN port on the ATT to a LAN port on the Asus.
    ■ Connect the laptop back to Asus again via wired connection. Setup the WIFI on the Asus.
    ■ Connect via wireless to the Asus.
 
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