AT&T Fiber 1 Gbps

[Peterg]

Does anyone else here have this and from the US obviously. Sense I don't think AT&T is outside the US. No I do not like them as a company but they are the only ones who offer fiber speeds in our area.

I am just curious what is the best/easiest way to bypass the gateway/modem that they include and you must use ? I don't want to take it out of the way totally because I don't think you can. If you can I don't think it is easy or fool proof. They may prevent it in the future too.

[Peterg]

Would this work?

First turn on wireless bridge on the att gateway/modem. Connect the att gateway/modem wan port, with a ethernet cable obviously, to the ethernet port for the cable going to the living room. Then connect another cable from the ethernet port in the living room to the back of one of the third party router's lan ports. (prefer Ethernet port 1)

Then use the other three Ethernet ports on the third party router for the 3 offices/rooms in the back. Run the living room tv off wireless instead.

Doubt this will work but worth a mention.

[_I_]

modem -> routers internet port -> routers lan ports to pcs and lan switches

[Peterg]

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modem -> routers internet port -> routers lan ports to pcs and lan switches

So what I said above your post won't work right ?

[Bad 💀 Motha]

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+1 to putting the modem+router box in bridge mode and disable its wifi, then getting your own dedicated router

will prevent the isp from being able to view or access your pcs and connected devices and wifi

This is all good but I have a problem. I don't want to put my router I bought in my garage with my AT&T gateway/modem

Is there anyway to still control the whole network with just my third party router but keep the in the living room ?

Thanks.

No. A router must connect to a modem in order to expand it beyond 1 device. That's it's job. It can't hurt anything but you most likely don't want them in the garage as these would most likely be outside of your indoor climate control and you don't want them being able to get heat/cold/humidity from being outside the home.

[Talby]

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any decent router is better than any modem+router combo

you can set subnets on the router, define which devices are connected to which vlans

either way the isp will not be able to see whats going on behind your router

I am confused.

How would I setup my gateway/modem still being in garage while my main third party router being in the living room controlling all of my network ?

Only way to do that would be to setup the bridge mode on the BGW210 and make the new router as the main router then run 3 more cables from the router into the garage to connect up the other ports...

[Bad 💀 Motha]

As long as it's like this...

Fiber Line > Modem > Ethernet Cable > Router > any wired PC or Console connect via Ethernet cable to the Router. If Wireless device then configure the WiFi on the Router.

If the ISP modem is an all in one (easy to tell as it would have led for wifi 2.4 and wifi 5.0, plus antennas on it, although some have internal antennas only). So yea if it's an all in one, it has built in Router, simply connect to this via Ethernet cable and login to the modem IP# and then configure the router to be in bridged mode, and Disable its built in WiFi. When done, disconnect the PC used to configure it and then go ahead and hookup your longer Ethernet cable between modem and your own router. Then connect to the IP# of the router and configure it's wifi and how you want the overall home network setup. From now on all devices will connect through the router which will fetch outside data from the modem.

What ever will connect via Wired Ethernet, use CAT5E or better and ensure its the double shielded kind rated for 350mhz or more to shield against outside interference.

Yes you can have the main line and modem in the garage, then run a single long Ethernet cable from modem to the router that's inside your home. Keep the cable length under 300 feet. Another reason that the double shielded, 350mhz or higher rating cable is needed as that is required basically to go beyond 100 feet, upwards to 320-350 feet max before it can loss signal/data strength.