Uverse Wireless Receiver Installations / Alternative installations for the Access Point

As I understand it, the router is creating a new network & the WAP needs to be on the same network as the gateway.

 

You need to change the settings on the cisco to act like a switch (dumb router or pass through?) I believe you can search for instructions in the forum. Or, replace it with a switch.

 

Another nuance - Mixing TV and internet access on the same leg from the RG may or may not cause switch flooding. Best to have seperate legs - one for TV & one for computers. Multiple each with a switch for multiple devices.

 

Thank you for those comments. Perhaps I need to port forward through my network into the RG. I have a limited depth of understanding and experience with networking, but I am one of those tinkerers with good instincts that can get stuff to work with a little coaching and some persistence.

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@fudd-verse wrote:
Thank you for those comments. Perhaps I need to port forward through my network into the RG. I have a limited depth of understanding and experience with networking, but I am one of those tinkerers with good instincts that can get stuff to work with a little coaching and some persistence.

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There are posts from one user that knew everything needed that got it go work through his router behind the RG, but not through a switch like yours.   It has to have IGMP snooping and has to have the 802.1p protocol to pass video through the WAP.

 

This is not for tinkerers, a good depth of networking is needed as many other things are needed to be done too.

 

Best thing you could do is get a longer ethernet cable to lenghten the distance of the WAP and the RG. 😉

 

Edit:  Inexpensive ethernet cables here:

 

Ethernet cables

 

Chris
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