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T-mobile gateway with seperate router
I'm just starting out on T-Mobile home internet but didn't want to stop using my Asus Router which is set up nicely already to handle everything in this household (both wifi and ethernet). Here's wha...
I’ve been using T-mobile home internet for over 2 years now, and from the beginning, I’ve always used a separate router, not just one configured as AP mode for WiFi.
I haven't had any issues with double NAT or anything like that. My original router handles all my static IPs, firewall, SQM/QoS, etc and the T-mobile gateway just acts as a WAN modem. I found the speeds to be much better like this compared to using the built in WiFi from the gateway. Speeds improved even further when I completely disabled the gateway's wifi using the HINT Control app. The T-mobile gateways are far too limited in their feature set to act as the router for anyone who has a significant home network, ie: not just a handful of laptops and smart phones.
