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Help me chosse a home router.
I am new to choosing and installing routers. I think I have chosen the correct community but let me know if i have not. I currently have an ATT Uverse Pace gateway model 5268ACFXN and in the no...
BLASIRL wrote:
Just out of curiosity, have you read my initial question?
Several times. Badly framed questions are not amenable to detailed answers.
What are we to make of this?
in the not to distant future will be switching to a T-Mobile gateway using Wi-Fi 6 with 4 x 4 MIMO and it is compatible with 5G NR, 4G LTE networks. I do not know the model yet.
If you "do not know the model yet", what do you expect people to say?
Are you trolling me or something?
T-mobile has two gateways that they are handing out. I am not sure which one I will receive and I posted the little information I could find on them. If it makes no sense to you, skip those details. It will be a gateway (modem/router). I know I will need to redo the settings on either one of the gateways.
Once I have chosen a router, it will initially be setup on the ATT gateway. Once I switch to T-Mobile, I will reconfigure.
Now I need some help selecting a router based on the information I have posted before. I also asked what additional information would be needed.
Does that clarify anything for you?
There is nothing special in your list of requirements. Just about anything you find on the product pages would work.
But if you are using something that connects to a mobile phone network, the modem bit is where it all starts.
Most ISPs work behind cable, DSL or optical networks. Routers are designed to work with them. Cellular devices are less common and have different issues.
For advice on devices that are compatible with cellular modems, you need to know what the modem will do so that you can see if you can configure it with a separate router.
This is not a trivial task which is why there is a separate section here for "mobile hotspots" and why there is a steady trickle of questions from people who want to know how to get a router to play nicely with a mobile hot-spot/modem.
Mobile Routers, Hotspots & Modems
You might like to eavesdrop on that section to see the sort of issues that you may encounter.
Not knowing what the front end will be makes it difficult to be specific. If you had said that you had a cable modem, the task would have been much easier.
Oh, and ATT, and its hardware, is famously difficult to work with.
Ask them for advice.