I currently have Asus GT-Ax11000 wifi router with 2 Asus Zen Wifi mesh nodes connected to a cable modem. I’ve set up the T-Mobile home network unit and it gets decent speeds 250-270 Mbps. Can I unplug my Asus router’s ethernet cable from the cable modem and plug into the T-Mobile unit and reset the system? Or do I need to reconfigure the Asus mesh system? Can the T-mobile wifi be turned off and simply feed from the ethernet port?
I have the Amplifi Alien, and just plug the ethernet out from TM gateway to Amplifi in, and everything just works. I did not have to change anything of my devices, including phones, TV’s and IoT’s … I did not even need to turn off the WIFI from the TM gateway.
Yes I decided to try that and mine worked the same as well.
thanks
so do you get the same speed as from TM wifi? I hooked up my mesh wifi to ethernet port and only get about 30-40 mbps I get over 200 from TM wifi
so do you get the same speed as from TM wifi? I hooked up my mesh wifi to ethernet port and only get about 30-40 mbps I get over 200 from TM wifi
On Asus routers and mesh systems yes. I see no difference in speed using my Asus ZenWifi mesh versus directly connected to the TMO gateway. I tested both DHCP and AP modes and speeds are identical. I prefer DHCP because it opens up a lot of features that TMO gateway doesn’t support like a guest network that is virtually separate from main network or QOS.
However, some folks have reported their non-Asus routers drop to half speed or less with DHCP enabled, but get full speed in AP mode.
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