Greetings and Salutations! Hopefully the rest of you are not as water logged as we are in Pennsylvania! I'm hoping for some help here as I've been working on this for the entire afternoon with no success and my wife/1 year old are not pleased.
Summary: Just had FiOS Gigabit installed today. My plan had been to bridge the G1100 FiOS router as soon as the Tech left. Take that and feed the connection to my Asus AC68P. From there I would operate everything around my home.
Rational: First, the wifi signal from the FiOS router is sub-par at best. I have a significant amount of interference and roadblocks in my house and 2 rooms get zero signal. The Asus is able to reliably penetrate those walls and cover 100% of my home. Additionally it comes with a functional USB 3.0 that I can use for NAS. Lastly I find it overall to be a better experience.
What happened: After the tech left I brought in my Asus router and powered it up. I followed the links below which were rated and commented on indicating they would work. After 6 attempts I have been unsuccessful in completing achieving my goal. The outcome has been the same on all 6 attempts. After the last step I reboot both routers. The Asus picks up signal perfectly and handles all home network media distribution just fine. It has no internet connection and the FiOS router at this point refuses to take the password for me to log into it. The only problem I had with the instructions was the line to release the DHCP. When I switched to NO IP that option goes away. While that doesn't jive with the instructions at least in my head it makes sense as there would be nothing to release if you've already given up your IP?
https://www.flyn.org/notes/g1100-bridge/index.html
http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r31057540-Networking-HOW-TO-Bridge-G1100-So-your-Router-becomes-Primary
Request: I'm hoping for some help to figure out how to make the G1100 function solely as a modem and pass everything else on to the AC68P. Most of the guides and all of the YouTube I found seemed old and outdated. I'm guessing possibly there has been a firmware update and maybe some options have changes?
Background:
I've already mentioned the routers but heres the rest of my setup along with a bonus question
1. 8 Networking cables to plug in. I've been manually adjusting as most of the routers I've had have fluctuated around 4-5 ports and 4 of the ports I rarely use.
2. My whole home is wired, while I use wifi a lot I do prefer hardwired connections especially for my PC and XBox
3. The G1100 had firmware version 02.00.01.08 and is Hardware version 1.04
4. The ASUS has its newest firmware updated for the AIMesh which is my next goal. I want to add a 2nd router to the other side of the home and boost WiFi. Its not necessary per say, more of a nice to have.
5. The FiOS router literally only handles internet. I have no TV or Phone hardwired into my house.
Bonus Question: If you HAD to have 8+ lines functional at all times how would you do this project? Keeping in mind that everything networking and TV has all been hardrun to the same room the FiOS router is in and I'm running 2 servers in that room that will also share the connection.
Summary: Just had FiOS Gigabit installed today. My plan had been to bridge the G1100 FiOS router as soon as the Tech left. Take that and feed the connection to my Asus AC68P. From there I would operate everything around my home.
Rational: First, the wifi signal from the FiOS router is sub-par at best. I have a significant amount of interference and roadblocks in my house and 2 rooms get zero signal. The Asus is able to reliably penetrate those walls and cover 100% of my home. Additionally it comes with a functional USB 3.0 that I can use for NAS. Lastly I find it overall to be a better experience.
What happened: After the tech left I brought in my Asus router and powered it up. I followed the links below which were rated and commented on indicating they would work. After 6 attempts I have been unsuccessful in completing achieving my goal. The outcome has been the same on all 6 attempts. After the last step I reboot both routers. The Asus picks up signal perfectly and handles all home network media distribution just fine. It has no internet connection and the FiOS router at this point refuses to take the password for me to log into it. The only problem I had with the instructions was the line to release the DHCP. When I switched to NO IP that option goes away. While that doesn't jive with the instructions at least in my head it makes sense as there would be nothing to release if you've already given up your IP?
https://www.flyn.org/notes/g1100-bridge/index.html
http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r31057540-Networking-HOW-TO-Bridge-G1100-So-your-Router-becomes-Primary
Request: I'm hoping for some help to figure out how to make the G1100 function solely as a modem and pass everything else on to the AC68P. Most of the guides and all of the YouTube I found seemed old and outdated. I'm guessing possibly there has been a firmware update and maybe some options have changes?
Background:
I've already mentioned the routers but heres the rest of my setup along with a bonus question
1. 8 Networking cables to plug in. I've been manually adjusting as most of the routers I've had have fluctuated around 4-5 ports and 4 of the ports I rarely use.
2. My whole home is wired, while I use wifi a lot I do prefer hardwired connections especially for my PC and XBox
3. The G1100 had firmware version 02.00.01.08 and is Hardware version 1.04
4. The ASUS has its newest firmware updated for the AIMesh which is my next goal. I want to add a 2nd router to the other side of the home and boost WiFi. Its not necessary per say, more of a nice to have.
5. The FiOS router literally only handles internet. I have no TV or Phone hardwired into my house.
Bonus Question: If you HAD to have 8+ lines functional at all times how would you do this project? Keeping in mind that everything networking and TV has all been hardrun to the same room the FiOS router is in and I'm running 2 servers in that room that will also share the connection.
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