re: Help me choose a new home router

And speaking of access points, I have 1 newer AC1900 I have set up as an access point in the master. For the longest time, I could access it, set it up to our wifi credentials, but couldn't get it to connect to the internet. It was strange. This thread prompted me to dig back into the problem. Every other AC1800/1900 (same manufacture, older models) I have I've simply plugged the network cable into one of the four ethernet ports on the back and they worked like a charm. If you plugged into their WAN port, no internet. I tried plugging my laptop directly into the LAN cable coming out of the wall and was getting 220 mbps, which is supposedly impossible for the cat 5 cable our house was wired with when it was built in the 1990's.

So on a whim, I plugged the LAN cable into the WAN port (which, upon further inspection, is clearly labeled "Internet" on the router). Well guess what, the router connected to the internet at the same 220 mbps. Anyone ever heard of them a router being wired that way? It was a new one on me.


Edit: So after some digging I have discovered: If you click "Access point mode" in the TP link router web interface you use the WAN port. If you configure the access point manually, you use the LAN port. Since my other two access point routers didn't have that option in their interface, and were configured manually, I'd always used the LAN port. You learn something new every day...