Hey fellow forum users. If anyone is willing to help me with this, it would be appreciated.
I am wanting to make a 'bridged mode setup guide', pretty much one thread, which goes
"smc - how to"
"Cisco - how to"
"hitron - how to"
And would also put in a 4th section, of the alternative of how to set up your own router as just an access point as well.
As i have general knoledge, i havent done the setup myself on all the models, i am asking for your help/input. Pretty much just step by step instructions, login, this page, change this, reboot... as detailed as possible.
This way we have an easy spot for reference for users comming in to point to - will be requesting it to be stickied at the top of the forum.
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Yes i understand that this shouldnt be necessary, etc.. they should offer d3 modems, etc. I dont want to get into that in this thread 🙂 Its more to collectively get this together to be able to help other users with setting it up.
Please feel free to reply here, or PM me with the info.
I look forward to your input.
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Ski north beat me to it :). Again starting off by saying thank you for contributing.
I do agree, this will be a good approach as I write the guide up. Doing gateway to pc first to guarantee that it is changed over correctly first before introducing the router into the configuration.
One thing I haven't tried myself, so not sure if it is an issue or not. I know in the past the modems often liked to tie themselves I into the MAC address of the first device connected, so by putting the pc in first then the router, will the modem communicate correctly to the router? I know again in the past, a soft reboot was required for it to grab the MAC address of the router instead. Just curious if experienced the same thing with these units?
Something to include in the guide. Though usually a good idea to reboot the unit anyways while doing procedures like this anyways.
I do agree, this will be a good approach as I write the guide up. Doing gateway to pc first to guarantee that it is changed over correctly first before introducing the router into the configuration.
One thing I haven't tried myself, so not sure if it is an issue or not. I know in the past the modems often liked to tie themselves I into the MAC address of the first device connected, so by putting the pc in first then the router, will the modem communicate correctly to the router? I know again in the past, a soft reboot was required for it to grab the MAC address of the router instead. Just curious if experienced the same thing with these units?
Something to include in the guide. Though usually a good idea to reboot the unit anyways while doing procedures like this anyways.
I do have the HITRON instructions now as well.
I used to have the Cisco, but i forget what the settings were. If anyone still has a cisco and would be able to provide this, it would be appreciated.
I wont argue that fact.
The devices, FAR from live up to what is advertised.
Now.. i understand they cant cover EVERY scenario... If they said "covers the whole house" and it covered a 2000sq/ft home.. i would say that its living up to what it says it can do... anything biger? might not... but that could happen with a 3rd party one if the house is big enough.
Unfortunately, they barely cover the range of a 2 bedroom appartment.
I agree, that it shouldnt be necessary.
BUT... there are people like myself.. where Rogers is the ONLY service in town really (I can get DSL, but at 6mb/s MAX), only 3rd party are DSL coverage only with same restrictions.
Until rogers does descide to make a change on the hardware choices.. these things, etc, are here to help people with that.
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