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R6400 and DM200 setup
Hi, I have just bought a DM200 model and an R6400 router. It is not dlear at all how to set together and I have not managed to get internet into the R6400 Does the ADSL setting happen on ...
Hi All,
Thank you for your assistance.You were all helpful. The theme was set the modem into bridge (Modem) mode and configure the settings in the router with ISP username passowrd etc...
This would have been correct but I have not accepted any solution becuase of one thing that blocked it and the whole community needs to know. AC1750 does not have PPPoA. Even with latest firmware update. Confirmed by Netgear. What ????? Anyway no matter all your posts my ISP must have PPPoA so it never did work.
It is possible to leave the modem in modem+router mode, log in on the modem, say to the AC1750 that my ISP does not require a login, and then the modem will pass data to the AC1750. The problem here is you have double NAT double DHCP etc...
Fine, turn off the DHCP on one of them for example.... I tried that a lot but there were a lot of error mesages saying the IP on the router has been reset to 192.168.1.1 to avoid a clash with the ISP. In this case the ISP 'it' saw was the modem. The modem was passing a private IP to the router and that was stuck on 192.168.1.1, my whole network with many fixed IP's is on 192.168.2.x so I didn't really want to fiddle with that.So long story short is that it didn't work terribly well at all. the root cause of all of the pain was no PPPoA in the AC1750 (R6400) - really poor netgear, considering it's quite highly priced.
Thanks all.
PPPoA typically can't be used in such a configuration - because the total packet length would be longer than a standard Ethernet packet. That's why (AFAIK all) these routers are supporting PPPoE (and PPTP to cover some Cable TV set-up) instead.
It's nice your ISP does support PPPoA as this allows a non-reduced MTU for direct DSL router connections. Does your ISP not support PPPoE, too?
It's nice your ISP does support PPPoA as this allows a non-reduced MTU for direct DSL router connections. Does your ISP not support PPPoE, too?
Hi
My ISP only supports PPPoA. Select PPPoE and it stops everything.
My provider is Sky in the UK. I think they badge it from O2 though.Cheers,
What I really want is a DM200 but with 4 ports and parental controls in the firmware PLUS importantly the ability to have Open NAT..
That woudl be ideal - does netgear to do this?
Replied before I've seen your post ... Open NAT or more OpenVPN?
Something like a D7000 would be feasible. Check Netgear's DSL offering, I'm not very fluent on the DSL stuff.
Afraid ... so either use dual NAT (bad for exposing ie. a NAS to the Internet, I remember your username from another vendor NAS forum), use the DM200 as a router and deploy the R6400 as a pure wireless access point ... or switch to a pure DSL router instead. Double check PPPoA (when I have it right, some Dxxxx I had for testing have PPPoA available.
-Kurt