A/C Router and internet
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AlexianaBritmonkey
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People in modern days often use WiFi as a synonym to Internet Access.
What I understand from your point is: Your current speed on your current WiFi network is slower than it should be. You'd like to buy an AC router to make your own network and bypass the provider's WiFi?
You can do that by disabling DHCP and wireless broadcast on your provider's modem/router. You then take a cable to connect the router you bought to the provider's modem by linking the LAN of the providermodem to the WAN of your own device. You set the ISP modem/router's IP address to 192.168.0.1, and the IP address of your own router to 192.168.1.1. This separated your WAN and LAN subnets and makes it work, essentially. The ISP's Modem/router is NOT allowed to see your internal network, to keep it simple. You only plug devices into your own router, therefor. You should be pretty much set with the default settings otherwise apart from changing SSID's and passwords, though.
This way, the modem your ISP provided essentially just Decodes and Encodes, and works like a modem. It then forwards the decoded and encoded packets to your router, which will send it around in your local network.
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What I understand from your point is: Your current speed on your current WiFi network is slower than it should be. You'd like to buy an AC router to make your own network and bypass the provider's WiFi?
You can do that by disabling DHCP and wireless broadcast on your provider's modem/router. You then take a cable to connect the router you bought to the provider's modem by linking the LAN of the providermodem to the WAN of your own device. You set the ISP modem/router's IP address to 192.168.0.1, and the IP address of your own router to 192.168.1.1. This separated your WAN and LAN subnets and makes it work, essentially. The ISP's Modem/router is NOT allowed to see your internal network, to keep it simple. You only plug devices into your own router, therefor. You should be pretty much set with the default settings otherwise apart from changing SSID's and passwords, though.
This way, the modem your ISP provided essentially just Decodes and Encodes, and works like a modem. It then forwards the decoded and encoded packets to your router, which will send it around in your local network.
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AlexianaBritmonkey
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That's why I commented on disabling all the NAT features that could possibly break things on the first router. If I want the freedom I have to do so here. If there's no such restriction where this person's living, then they're of course better off using the DHCP and NAT on the ISP's device (unless that device is excessively bad at doing that, which ours are)
Sorry, I didn't see a mention of anything to do with NAT in the comment I replied to, traffic passing from sunbet to subnet has to be natted or the WAN on router2 needs to be in the DMZ of router1. Anything relying on portforward or UPnP will crap out. Nothing likes double NAT. Use router2 as an AP and DHCP server and disable on router1, DHCP is hardly taxing, NAT working OK on router1 is better than not working at all behind router2!!
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