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Best modem/router for Fiber

Posted on 8/13/22 at 9:40 pm
Posted by AlaskanLSUfan
NOLA
Member since Mar 2005
2233 posts
Posted on 8/13/22 at 9:40 pm
AT&T installed fiber in my neighborhood a few weeks ago and been considering switching to them. Any suggestions on modem/router? I’m looking at 1 Gig speeds.
Posted by TigerGman
Center of the Universe
Member since Sep 2006
11242 posts
Posted on 8/14/22 at 6:52 am to
Just got Eatel Fiber installed & this TP link archer 1800 LINK


$80.00


So far so good.
Posted by notsince98
KC, MO
Member since Oct 2012
18073 posts
Posted on 8/14/22 at 8:32 am to
you have to use the at&t gateway regardless of what you want to do. You have two options for your equipment:

1) just get wireless access points and use the gateway's routing
2) set the gateway to "IP Passthrough" mode and use your own router. Their gateway will still be performing NAT and inspecting packets so you add about 1ms delay when you use your own router. You will still have the session limits if you use your own router. There will be a couple ports you just can't use because the gateway uses them.
Posted by LemmyLives
Texas
Member since Mar 2019
6544 posts
Posted on 8/15/22 at 7:20 pm to
You're going to get stuck with whatever ATT gives you. I still have an NVG589 which probably went out of support five years ago. It's fine, set it in passthrough, it becomes a bridge that functionally does nothing that concerns your network. A bridge technically converts one medium to another (fiber to Ethernet, or Coax to Ethernet, etc.) If it's in passthrough mode, it doesn't do DHCP, DNS, or anything else that is cool. Your router then controls it (which is what you want.) You can set DNS at the router to force Cloudflare or other encrypted DNS, etc.

Get an AX router. I have TPLink now, but will switch to Synology soon. I have 5200 sq feet, and one router reaches everywhere I need.
Posted by LSU-MNCBABY
Knightsgate
Member since Jan 2004
24371 posts
Posted on 8/16/22 at 7:22 am to
Have att fiber with a eeros mesh system and it’s very fast across a ton of devices on between smart home and kids
Posted by lsu777
Lake Charles
Member since Jan 2004
31427 posts
Posted on 8/17/22 at 12:30 pm to
quote:

you have to use the at&t gateway regardless of what you want to do. You have two options for your equipment:

1) just get wireless access points and use the gateway's routing
2) set the gateway to "IP Passthrough" mode and use your own router. Their gateway will still be performing NAT and inspecting packets so you add about 1ms delay when you use your own router. You will still have the session limits if you use your own router. There will be a couple ports you just can't use because the gateway uses them.



this. i have mine going to a unifi dream machine and then to a switch and 6 access points. all tvs wired to switch.
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