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WiFi router sugestions that can use different IP address for Home Internet 5G Gateway
I tried to use the Home Internet 5G Gateway/Router in my home network setup, but unfortunately, the router has it’s base IP address (i.e. 192.168.x.x) hard coded into it’s OS, and CANNOT be changed. ...
Yukon wrote:
I simply unplugged my existing router from the cable modem and plugged it into the TMobile Gateway. My router picked up a 192.168.12.X address and everything worked. I disabled all of the SSIDs on the Gateway so I wouldn't have that wifi network enabled. As long as your existing router is set for DHCP on the WAN interface it should work. Everything stayed the same on the home network behind the router.
This is the way to go problem solved.
I ran into this same problem yesterday setting up mine. Why choose 192.168.12.1 ??? Is this intentional, to break as many private home LAN setups as they possibly can?
Then there's the forced 12+ character WiFi password. My previous password was shorter, easy to remember, and would definitely not succumb to a dictionary attack and would take a while with brute force methods.
Before the T-Mobile High Speed gateway all I needed to do to swap DSL modems out was set the SSID, WiFi Password, and gateway IP. Then it was literally plug-in-and-play. Smart TV, tablets, laptop, printers, my dd-wrt wireless repeater-bridge would all carry on as though nothing had changed.
But not with T-Mobile. For that I'm required to upend the configurations of every single networked device I have. What should have taken me five minutes to setup instead took half the day and I still have to get out a keyboard, monitor, and mouse just to change a 0 to 12 in my media server config.
The four most commonly used gateway addresses for private networks are 192.168.0.1, 192.168.1.1, 172.16.0.1, or 10.0.0.0
If T-Mobile wants to "simplify" setup they should have those four as choices, if they don't want users to be able to choose whatever address they want. Nearly all routers and modems I've encountered are defaulted to 192.168.1.1.
