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Recent content by Thomas

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    WAN and LAN in same cable

    Yes that's true. And equally important; it is funny to play with.
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    WAN and LAN in same cable

    Yes there must be a penalty of doing so, but question is, how much. Do you think that the penalty is greater than just using the Cisco's NAT and DHCP and the Asus as AP? Here I assume that the Asus router is faster at NAT'ing than the Cisco.
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    WAN and LAN in same cable

    I used much of my evening yesterday searching for 'Router Bridge WAN LAN' and other search terms including 'VLAN', without any luck. "one-armed router" "router on a stick" Just what I needed. Thanks.
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    WAN and LAN in same cable

    Thank you. The TP-link looks interesting. Okay that boils down to these three options: - Use the original setup with two TP-Links, separating WAN and LAN with VLANs. - Use the Asus as AP and Cisco as router, thus loosing all the nice Asus NAT features. - Run double NAT What I need: - Low...
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    WAN and LAN in same cable

    Thank you. I will go with the option of using only the cisco's NAT. I don't necessarily need the Asus NAT features, I just want a response and fast network + internet. And I think introducing two NATs will only introduce more processing?
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    WAN and LAN in same cable

    Thank you for your thorough reply. I didn't think about splitting the cable up in two... Clever. But unfortunately I can't do that, since my ISP provides me with 100Mbps (soon 300 Mpbs). Well I could, but I'd rather come up with another solution. Thanks anyway. What about the VLAN and smart...
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    WAN and LAN in same cable

    Please excuse my English. It is not my native language.
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    WAN and LAN in same cable

    Hi SNB's My first thread here. I have bridged my old Cisco EPC3925 and is now using an Asus RC-ac87u as DHCP and NAT. So far so good. Everything worked very fine in the beginning, i.e. when the Asus router were placed next to the cisco router in the basement like this: CISCO router (bridged)...
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