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R7000, Fiber (CenturyLink) and router switch
I have a Netgear R7000/AC1900 router, I'm trying to plug in the ethernet cable that goes into the CenturyLink router that has the connection to fiber. I would like to replace the CenturyLink router ...
WayneD214 wrote:
I'I'm not sure that putting the CenturyLink in bridge mode makes sense since everything is still going through CenturyLink, it's just going through another gadget to fail and slow things down.
Did you read the stuff about using two routers?
It makes every sense to put the modem/router into bridge mode if you want to use a second router. That is why it is a common strategy and why there are all those Google searches out there.
Everything does still go through the modem, but not in the same way. The choice is yours.
Yes, I read it, I'm not sure that using the Netgear router instead of the router built-in to the CenturyLink device is enough to warrant it's use. I was hoping/planning on using a mesh network since we signed the contract on this house in August, of course I couldn't buy anything until I could look at the actual set-up. Some friends have a later version of this house (our house was built in 2012, there was built-in 2018(?)) where I think the cat5 could be used for backhaul.
The last time I talked to CenturyLink tech support they mentioned VLAN TAGGING and DHCP over PPOE. Are there other things that need to be found out for how to substitute the AC1900 for the CenturyLink?
WayneD214 wrote:The last time I talked to CenturyLink tech support they mentioned VLAN TAGGING and DHCP over PPOE. Are there other things that need to be found out for how to substitute the AC1900 for the CenturyLink?
We have been through all this several times.
You seem happy to listen to friends and your ISP while ruling out things that people have suggested here.
As you don't seem to accept that "double NAT" is a real issue, there really isn't much more that anyone can suggest.
michaelkenward wrote:
WayneD214 wrote:The last time I talked to CenturyLink tech support they mentioned VLAN TAGGING and DHCP over PPOE. Are there other things that need to be found out for how to substitute the AC1900 for the CenturyLink?
> We have been through all this several times.
Yes we have
> You seem happy to listen to friends and your ISP while ruling out things
> that people have suggested here.
I have read and considered everything mentioned here. My friends haven't said anything. I'm going simply from what I've been able to gather in talking and reading from various sources including the tech from the ISP.
> As you don't seem to accept that "double NAT" is a real issue, there
> really isn't much more that anyone can suggest.
Double NAT is an issue, I don't think I've ever doubted that, that is why I'm tryng to eliminate the CenturyLink router. I've done some more searching and come across a setting that seems to be relevant, on the CenturyLink router is a setting marked as VLAN=201. There is a similiar setting for the netgear router, login to the router, go to the Advanced tab, navigate to the VLAN section and there are two boxes, VLAN ID & Priority. I tried entering 2, 20 and 201 in those boxes with no success. I don't know what to enter as a priority?
I need to do some more 'perimentation. Thank you, I had searched for Century Link and wound up with a huge amount of stuff that didn't seem to end.
Thank you it works! I'm going to hang on to the CenturyLink router for a couple of weeks and make sure everything works. So far so good.
can you share the steps to make it work?
