New AC66U Owner with HTC One

[samhain1]

Hi,

First post, hello

I am struggling to set up my router, I can't quite get my head around the router setting, the access point setting or media bridge. I am a sky broadband user in the UK which means I need to keep the sky router in the chain connected to my phone line. I have switched the wireless 2.4Ghz signal off on the sky router and want to use the Asus as the main wireless for the house.

The cabling I have working is that the ethernet cable from the PC goes to one of the yellow ports on the back of the Asus router. Then I have another ethernet cable going from the blue (wan I think it is) on the Asus to the yellow connection on the sky router.

I received my new shiny HTC One today which has for the first time an AC receiver in it so that I can now use the ASUS wireless ac for use with the phone.

When I connect the phone my link speed is about 40 Mbps but my link speed with the 2.4 network is 72Mbps.

It strikes me that my AC is not broadcasting or I have no idea what settings I need to have to be able to connect and use the AC bandwidth.

Also, whenever I make a change in the router from access point to media etc, then the IP address appears to change and I can no longer connect to the router. So the 192.168.1.1 becomes something completely different or missing and I don't know how to recover that.

When I do an ipconfig /all at the command prompt the IP address is blank

Thanks in advance

Stu

 

[roscolo]

I'm in the U.S. I would say put the RT-AC66U in bridge mode. This thread looks similar to what you want to do, and you can see the solution outlined about 2-3 posts from the end of the thread:

http://www.skyuser.co.uk/forum/sky-...ridge-sr101-find-alternative-adsl-router.html

I'm using a different modem obviously, but this is essentially how I set my RT-AC66U up in bridge mode and it has worked equally well for me ever since.

Also, I don't know what the IP of your Sky modem is, but my ISP's modem's IP address was 192.168.1.1 so I just changed the IP address on my RT-AC66U to 192.168.2.1 to avoid the conflict.

 

[samhain1]

thanks for that