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Double NAT

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Can Orbi be put into bridged mode?
Hey All, I currently have Netgear Nighthawk X8 Wireless Router with 5 x eeros (set to bridged mode - to avoid double NAT - so essentialy they act as wireless access points). I have it setup this way because of the link aggregation offered by the Nighthawk X8 - my NAS is plugged directly into it using a ethernet bond. So until these mesh technologies create a router that supports link aggregation / bonds I need to keep using my Nighthawk X8 + some sort of mesh to cover my house and workshop. Details - I am trying to cover about 4000sqft + house features are preventing line of sight and also have a tendency to degrate a wifi signal (i.e. my office is almost a faraday cage; when it was built it was covered in the radient barrior stuff to keep heat or cool in - this creates a crazy effect where wifi signals are "blocked" in an out - good for security bad for wifi ;). I have run hard lines to solve that problem - but wireless devices are still impacted. So here's the challange: eero setup works great because it allows me to set the primary node to bridged (good) and allows my Netgear to hand out IPs and it has a few parental features that are disabled because of it and I need about 5 nodes to cover my area (bad) Luma has good parental features (good) but does not support a bridged mode so I cant use ling aggregation on my Nighthawk X8 and I would need about 4-5 nodes to cover me (bad) Orbi seems to have the coverage thing licked (though I have never used one -yet) and I cannot find any information on parental controls or if the router can be made into an access point, i.e. bridged mode. So my questions are: Can the Orbi be put into bridged mode so that I can continue using my Nighthawk with link aggregation for my NAS Is there a better way to set up my network? Like putting the Nighthawk into AP mode - I think I ran into issues with that with the eero because I could not change the default gateway so I effectively had 2 networks 192.168.1.x and 192.168.0.x (bad) Any help / thougths would be appriciated! Thanks!
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nickfloyd
Sep 30, 2016 Place Orbi Wi-Fi 5 (AC) and Orbi with Voice Mesh
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Need help with XR500 double NAT on Xbox One
Hello, I installed my XR500 today, before I was using an AC1900 which had open NAT, however I now have double NAT at Strict. What questions should I ask my internet service provider and what settings should I use? I already went to settings>WAN Setup>NAT Filtering>Open. My new router connects to a PoE Adaptor. I managed to get the AC1900 to Open NAT but that was years ago and I forgot the process I took to get there.
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Xboxlivegamer
Mar 03, 2018 Place Nighthawk Pro Gaming Routers
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Double NAT -- R70000 -- Google Fiber
I have a Google Fiber box and have a R7000 set up downstream (the R7000 has better range and I'm able to setup OPEN DNS). When I set this up it created a double NAT situation because the Google Fiber Network Box does not have a bridge mode. In the last couple of weeks I installed a wifi security camera at my home (car got broken into recently) but have been having network problems with the camera where it will go offline or won't capture the video well. Based on some google searches it looks like security cameras don't do well with double NAT. Is there anything I can do to help this situation> The best explanation on double NAT I've found is at http://www.practicallynetworked.com/networking/fixing_double_nat.htm. At the bottom it gives some suggestions on port forwarding or DMZ. Will these work in my case? Other suggestions?
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dcook7312
Jan 09, 2018 Place Nighthawk Wi-Fi 5 (AC) Routers
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Double NAT issue caused by ISP, with R6100 gateway
On my Xbox One, I’m getting a double NAT error. I’m pretty sure this started after we upgraded our internet. Now, I can’t connect to EA servers in battlefield 1. This doesn’t happen in battlefront 1 (Other EA game), and other games, so I’m not 100% positive if double NAT is actually the main issue. Tell me if I might be on the wrong track. Back the the point. I’ve called my ISP and they’ve confirmed they’re running a NAT before my gateway (Netgear R6100). My gateway is also running NAT, so I’m being double-NATed. I’m fairly tech-savy but I don’t know how to fix this without exposing my home network, having it still function, being able to still login to the gateway, etc. Does anybody know how to fix this? Without transferring to a different ISP? It’s not an option.
Xealkry
Nov 18, 2017 Place Cable Modems & Gateways
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