@Clearled as long as you don’t need port forwarding, you can just plug your own router into the ethernet port of the T-Mobile router. Then everything on your lan should connect to your router— so for example don’t use the T-Mobile Wi-Fi, use the Wi-Fi built into your own router. This creates a situation called double NAT, which is recommended against, but also not really a big deal. I’ve been running with double NAT ever since my post above and no problems.I’m using a Mikrotik router and six Ubiquiti UniFi access points, my address space for everything stayed as 192.168.2.0/24. The T-Mobile network of 192.168.12.0/24 is being used as what we would call a transport network. The only devices on it are the T-Mobile router and my Mikrotik router. Everything else is behind the Mikrotik. tl;dr: Plug the wan port of your existing router into the lan port of the T-Mobile. Don’t change anything else and it should work. If you don’t own your own router, such as you rented it from your
Lack of ability to change LAN IP addressing is a pretty huge defect. Carriers need to get their heads past the idea that the average home is only a laptop or two on wifi. Granny with her iPad is not the target for this product, so why design the software limitations for Grandma’s ease of use?It’s a new device though, and otherwise pretty exciting, so let’s hope better configurability is coming in the future.I’m curious if one could just use DHCP guarding on a managed switch to block the “unauthorized” DHCP server built into the router--Allowing one’s own LAN server to handle DHCP without interference. It won’t change the .12 addressing limitation, but at least it would make node IP assignment controllable. There are worse things than double NAT to be honest. In fact, with more of a commercial setup, using NAT to deconflict overlapping address spaces is a thing. I am evaluating if I can replace a Cox cable modem service with this device. It’s less than 1/3 the price of Cox for si
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