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stordoff on Sept 13, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Weirdly broken Wi-Fi access points

I ended up just keeping my ISP router as is, and putting a DD-WRT router behind it. I suspect the double layer of NAT isn't great, but I've been doing it for years without issue.

DD-WRT has been pretty solid for that, even in non-ideal network setups (currently have it connected to the ISP router as a 2.4GHz client, then acting as a 5GHZ AP for my other devices).

pricechild on Sept 13, 2016 [–]

Are you not using the isp provided router as a modem only? Why not do pppoe (or whatever) on your dd-wrt?

creshal on Sept 13, 2016 | [–]

Not all offer PPPoE, for some unfathomable reason.

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