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Hi, I recently bought an Asus RT-N66W to use for my home network. I currently have an Actiontec Q1000 which I want to use solely as a modem. I want the Asus RT-N66W to do the rest of the work: routing, wifi, firewall, etc.
A picture is worth a thousand words, so I made this picture. Hopefully, it's easy to understand:
In the original configuration on top, everything works fine. But, when I change the Actiontec into transparent bridge mode and use the Asus RT-N66W for routing, wifi, everything else, etc. then my devices connected into the Netgear Prosafe GS116E can't connect?
The LAN ports on the Asus RT-N66W work. I've connected a laptop to them and they all connect to the internet just fine. But for some strange reason, the GS116E switch doesn't work in the bottom configuration?
Does anyone have any idea what's going on? Am I missing a crucial step to get this working?
Thank you for reading
A picture is worth a thousand words, so I made this picture. Hopefully, it's easy to understand:

In the original configuration on top, everything works fine. But, when I change the Actiontec into transparent bridge mode and use the Asus RT-N66W for routing, wifi, everything else, etc. then my devices connected into the Netgear Prosafe GS116E can't connect?
The LAN ports on the Asus RT-N66W work. I've connected a laptop to them and they all connect to the internet just fine. But for some strange reason, the GS116E switch doesn't work in the bottom configuration?
Does anyone have any idea what's going on? Am I missing a crucial step to get this working?
Thank you for reading

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