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Router Configuring Advice

Anyway so I got Merlin working, the MTU stuff still went nowhere, Cake seems promising but not working great for me yet, it seems to only work for fixed bandwidths which TMHI definitely isn’t where I live so if I wanna game the Adaptive QoS is still better though not desirable, that said I think I see where to go from here so I’m gonna go to those forums to try to get help now. Thanks everybody seeya.

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eraserheadhairRookie
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Router Configuring Advice

Thank you for the clarification on AP mode and DHCP, unfortunately I couldn’t configure QoS while it’s on AP mode and speeds didn't change either way so I don’t think I’m going to use it, hopefully T-Mobile gives us the settings we need to make the gateway primarily a modem when we have a router plugged in but it just hasn't happened yet.Changing DNS didn’t change much of anything, adjusting MTU packets on only my PC just made the speed slower unfortunately, the advice to change MTU were all from last year so maybe the Arcadyan fixed that issue. I’ll still try to do it within the router with Merlin anyway to see if it changes. I’ll prob try Merlin tonight or tomorrow.

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New customer, looking for router recommendations

Ok I managed to order a router on Amazon now, it’s the Asus one I had linked earlier, thanks for the help! I’ll probably start another topic next week once it delivers for how I should configure it.

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New customer, looking for router recommendations

  AP “Access Point” mode just relays the wifi connections to your TMO gateway router to resolve DHCP thus keeping to a single DHCP layer. I would make sure AP mode supports full QOS since that is your main reason to go with your own router. Buy your router from Amazon and see if it helps while trying both AP and DHCP modes. If it makes no difference, you have a legitimate reason to return for a full refund since QOS is suppose to reduce latency. alright, the guides I’ve looked up for hooking up a router dont mention anything about AP mode besides don’t enable it but those were for the trash can model, I’ll do what you said with Amazon and try one out, I heard SQM would be better than QoS for bad bufferbloat but I think I’ll try an Asus before the IQRouter. Is there any specific ones I should look at? I was thinking about this one cause it’s cheaper but I’m not sureAlso I ended up learning how to turn off the wifi it was easier than I had thought, seems to indeed make a differe

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New customer, looking for router recommendations

Asus is pretty solid and you can use your own router with the Arcadyan. Easiest way is AP mode, but not sure if QOS works in AP mode. Otherwise use DHCP and the added bonus of DHCP is you can also change DNS service to help with latency. However, DHCP on your router creates another DHCP layer on top of the Arcadyan. Some console gaming users say that creates other problems. You can Youtube search on how to disable wifi on the Arcadyan. Thank you, Disabling the wifi with the scripting I’m looking at seems beyond my skillset so I might just leave the gateway’s network under a different name/password so nobody’s using it anymore, unless disabling it does make a substantial difference then I could try.What makes AP mode the easier option? I did hear about the double DHCP layers causing speed problems but AP mode looks like it would create it’s own problems, to clarify I’d be doing all of my gaming through ethernet on both my Windows PC and Nintendo Switch, the rest of the house would just

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