Best modem/router for Fiber

Just got Eatel Fiber installed & this TP link archer 1800 LINK


$80.00


So far so good.

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.

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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.

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