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matthew johnson

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I have a RT-AX89X with a Rax200 connected to it for better coverage throughout my house. I have noticed recently that everything that connects to my RT-AX89X will have open nat. But anything that connects to the Rax200 will have moderate Nat. I was wondering if its better to have two ASUS routers then to have an Asus and a Netgear?
 
If the Rax200 is connected over its WAN to a LAN port on the RT-AX89X (i.e., routed), then the Rax200 is double NAT'd, which probably accounts for the difference. In most cases, it make more sense to configure the second router as a simple AP (LAN to LAN) so it's *bridged* to the first router rather than routed. Sometimes the router's firmware has an AP mode option built into it, other times you may have to manually configure it.

So it's not so much about the brand as how you've configured the second router, whatever the brand.
 

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