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r6230 lan to wan installation help
Hi everyone...I am going to install an r6230 in a lan to wan configuration with the r6230 being the secondary router and the primary is a linksys wrt1900ac. I need help with configuring both routers...
ok this isn't my original concern, but more answers invite more questions. I'm accepting your answer as the solution. Thanks again for spending this time with me.
> [...] he wants me to manage all my own devices on my own separate
> wi-fi network so he doesn't have to manage them. [...]
What, exactly, is to "manage"?
Again, what, exactly, does "separate" mean to you?
> A WAP lets you use different SSID+passphrase combinations. [...]
Still true.
> [...] Nothing in my house has to communicate with any other device on
> the network. [...]
Configuring the R6230 as a WAP won't stop such communication.
> [...] how do i take control of my own devices, and provide a lan
> connection for the grandkids? [...]
Define "take control". If you want complete control over devices
which are connected to your own router, and no possible communication
between those devices and devices which are connected to your son's
router, then you can't connect your router (or your devices) to your
son's router.
> [...] the wi-fi to his router does not provide a good enough
> connection. [...]
If no one was troubled by that wireless connection to the main
router, then why would anyone be troubled by a (wired) connection to an
R6230-as-WAP?
So far as I can see, configuring the R6230 as a WAP would give you
the same kind of connectivity to your son's LAN as you had with a
wireless connection to his router, but with the speed of a wired
connection, and a local wireless access point under your control. Where
"under your control" means that you can specify its wireless-network
SSID and passphrase.
> [...] so he doesn't have to manage them. [...]
What's to "manage"? With an R6230-as-WAP, the only management task
on the main router would be reserving an address for it in the DHCP
server there, to make management of the R6230-as-WAP easier from
anyplace on the whole LAN.
If you intend to do all the management of the R6230-as-WAP from
devices which are connected directly to it, then I'd expect the names
like "routerlogin.net" to work for that, so even that address
reservation would be optional.
Without knowing what "manage" or "separate" mean to you, I can't
judge whether an R6230-as-WAP satisfies those (vague) requirements.
Repeating undefined terms does not make them well defined. I don't see
how it would be any worse than what you had, and it should be faster
(for wire-connected devices).
so the connection would be lan to lan not lan to wan?
> so the connection would be lan to lan not lan to wan?
Logically, yes. Physically, as the R6230 User Manual says:
1. Use an Ethernet cable to connect the Internet port of this
router to an Ethernet port in the other router."Wireless AP" mode changes a few things. Including:
in doing some more reading netgear has instructions for setting up a router as an access point. thank you for your time in working through this with me....Tonyd
> [...] netgear has instructions [...]
Thanks for the helpful link. Netgear has many instructions for many
things. Perhaps whatever you found applies in your situation, but, with
my weak psychic powers, I couldn't say.will i still be able to connect to either 2.4 and 5.0? not sure if IPv6 being disabled means anything.
> will i still be able to connect to either 2.4 and 5.0? [...]
Sure, unless this is a variation on the "will I be able to play the
violin" joke.The basic wireless functionality is unchanged. Only the "guest
network" stuff disappears. (On these routers, the "guest network" stuff
is implemented using firewall-like rules, which is part of the router
functionality, so it disappears with the other router functionality in
WAP mode.)> [...] not sure if IPv6 being disabled means anything.
I doubt that you were using IPv6 on the LAN before.
Link speed (Receive/Transmit): 1000/1000 (Mbps)
IPv6 address: 2600:6c65:717f:ea80:5cae:890d:8b21:4825
Link-local IPv6 address: fe80::5cae:890d:8b21:4825%3
IPv6 DNS servers: 2600:6c65:717f:ea80:9610:3eff:fe15:c838
2600:6c65:717f:ea80:9610:3eff:fe15:c838
IPv4 address: 192.168.1.112
IPv4 DNS servers: 192.168.1.1
Manufacturer: Intel
Description: Intel(R) Ethernet Connection (7) I219-V
Driver version: 12.19.0.16
Physical address (MAC): 04-D4-C4-55-53-5Dthis is my network adapter properties. it's assigned but i can't tell if it is being used. Can you? thank you
> [...] it's assigned but i can't tell if it is being used. [...]
I don't know why it would be used. My guess would be that Windows
(these days) configures it by default; if you need it, it's there.If I really wanted to know, then I might run the experiment, and
disable IPv6 on that interface. If nothing stops working, then it
couldn't be very important.ok this isn't my original concern, but more answers invite more questions. I'm accepting your answer as the solution. Thanks again for spending this time with me.