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CRITICALThinker

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I use TELUS as an ISP, and the supplied router that was just replaced, an actiontec t3200m has been causing issues such as limited site access and connection drops. A rep managed to get it mostly working by switching the wireless band and doing a internal reboot, but in order to get my computer working I have had to remove the router I was using as a secondary network and ethernet switch in order to connect to any sites that use IPv4( tried both a Dlink AC1200 and an older linksys WRT54g and both have issues) as well as mobile devices often have to disable and reenable wireless randomly in order to connect to websites.

This brings me to the actual question, are these signs of a defective router than the ISP needs to replaced? Should I continue trying to use a secondary network, get a new router that can cover the whole house alone (Archer c60) and disable the wireless on the supplied one, or pick up a wireless extender?
 
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It can be done using two routers but you have to set the second router up differently. One thing thaat you will have...
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Your trying to use two routers in series. They always have issues if used this way. Only use one router at a time, or turn the Dlink, linksys, into an access point. You can normally only use one router on the same segment of a network at a time.
 
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I will try setting up the linksys as an access point again, but last time I had issues where when the secondary AP dropped out half the devices on the network would stop working, and it started dropping out more and more. The reason I had tried for a secondary network was to alleviate this issue, and I ended up returning the D-link since it was overheating anyway.

 
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It can be done using two routers but you have to set the second router up differently. One thing thaat you will have to think about is. Do you want all your devices to be able to communicate with each other or not. If not set one up with the standard range of ip addresses and the second one with the ip range of 192.168.10.1 to 192.168.10.255. The first router will have the range of 192.168.0.1 to 192.168.0.99. You have to make sure they don't overlap on the addresses. This keeps the two from conflicting and causing outages, conflicts.
 
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