#can old routers handle fibre connection ?

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green bough
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guys just want to ask. we just recently got fibre connection to our house. but the wifi range of the router they gave us sucks, it only work for the room that is directly beside the new router and nowhere else. i was thinking if i could use our old router to extend the wifi ? also i dont think my old router worked for fibre connection. im not sure about the difference but i was told that not all routers can handle fibre connection or something like that

chilly skiff
# green bough guys just want to ask. we just recently got fibre connection to our house. but t...

What router is it, should have the model on a sticker somewhere. A fiber router is just a router that has a port to connect to a fiber cable. Which you'd need if you have fiber optic cabling coming into your house for internet. But your old router can handle the signal just fine. Like if you turn off the wifi of the fiber router, just use it basically to convert from fiber to ethernet, and just connect the old router to it through an ethernet cable, and just use the old router's wifi, it'll work just fine.

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But really you shouldn't have to do that. If the wifi of your old router worked good then this ones should work fine as well

green bough
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yh i agree but sadly the wifi of the new one is just rlly bad. maybe we will buy a new one but idk if we can find another router with fiber port

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this is my old router

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was also thinking if i should but a wifi repeater but apparently those lower the internet speed by alot

chilly skiff
green bough
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ah 1 sec gonna check

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its a nokia g-1425g-b

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this one

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chilly skiff
# green bough this one

alright, well I'd connect your old router to the new one with an ethernet cable. And I'd set your old one up as an access point. The only technical part is that you have to configure your old router to do this. Do you have a good ethernet cable?

eternal light
# green bough this one

Looks like that ONT supports switching the ethernet ports from "route" mode to "bridge" mode via its Administration Website, which means you could then connect any router you want to 1 of the LAN ports without needing to deal with a double NAT situation, assuming your ISP doesn't use CG-NAT anyway.

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chilly skiff
eternal light
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Nah, I didn't read it - I just searched for "bridge" then screenshot only that section. 😄 Hopefully the ISP didn't lock down the ONT to prevent you from toggling bridge mode. If they did, it's time to find an ISP that actually lets users do things they need to do on the Customer Premise Equipment (CPE) side of the network.

green bough
green bough
eternal light
green bough
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we only have one ISP so we dont rlly have a choice lol

chilly skiff
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But before you even do that, you can just connect the old router and see if it has good coverage. You can still connect to it like usual to see if it’s good you just won’t have any internet.

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Make sure to put it in the place where it’s going to be which is close to the new fiber router when you test it.

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Kirashi was talking about NAT causing issues but for my router it only does NAT through the internet port, not the LAN ports so hopefully you don’t have to worry about that when we set it up

green bough
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btw whats the point of the modem having dual band ? how does that help ?

eternal light
green bough
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well i was wondering if having 2 affect the range or the connectivity of the wifi

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thx

eternal light
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Both can co-exist. Devices that connect to the 2.4GHz band usually have longer range, but are limited to the slower speed of said band. Devices connected to the 5GHz band usually have shorter range, but can reach faster speeds. WiFi connectivity is usually objectively worse than Wired speeds in most situations. Entirely depends on the client devices, distance from the modem, other wireless devices in the area, and building materials used in / around the building.

chilly skiff
# green bough well i was wondering if having 2 affect the range or the connectivity of the wif...

Ya the main issue is if you have two of the same bands transmitting close to each other. Like that's why your wifi devices and the router take turns communicating, and don't communicate at the same time. Cause if they did the signals would interfere with each other. So like you might say, well isn't the plan to have two routers right next to each other communicating on the same signal? And wouldn't that cause interference problems? And that is correct but the good thing about the 5ghz band is that it has a lot of leeway because the 5ghz band is much wider than the 2.4ghz band. You have to remember that the 5ghz and 2.4ghz bands are actually ranges. So for example a router communicating on the 5ghz band could be using a frequency anywhere from 4.5ghz - 5.5ghz. So on one of the routers you can, for example. communicate on 4.5ghz and on the other router you can use the 5.5ghz band. And this would fix the interference issue. And we can do the same thing with the 2.4ghz band but not as well

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But if it comes down to it I'm sure there's a way to disable the new fiber router from transmitting wifi and only use it for its fiber port

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But it should be fine

green bough
chilly skiff
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Like you can check that right now if you want. Like just connect your old router to power and put it close to the new fiber router. Then connect two devices to the old router and you can do a speed test between them

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See if you get the wifi speeds you want, but like I said it should be fine, that's just if you want to confirm. And you really probably should do it just to make sure. Cause I still don't understand the cause of the new fiber routers coverage* issues

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So you should connect the old one up and see if it experiences the same thing, might as well check speeds while you're at it