disable wifi and routing on high spped gateway

It looks like a trash can to me….I’ll play with the setup on my router and see what I can make work….thanks

Update.  I’ve been through all the settings in the web ui and I can’t find any way to change the 192.168.12.0 network setup.  I get that T-Mobile wants to make the setup simple but there’s no way I’m going to be able to work with this device if the only real configuration is English vs Spanish….

if anyone has had any success setting this up with a secondary router please chime in with any advice.  Otherwise I’m going to have to return this “trash can” to t-mobile.  It’s too bad bc in my area the signal is good and initial speed tests looked promising for this to be a viable alternative to cable…it’s a shame that basic router configurability could keep me from what otherwise looked to be a promising solution…

Here is my 2 cents on this:

• There is no way to change the ethernet / wifi subnet.  It is 192.168.12.0/24.  Same ipv4 subnet bridged across wireiess/wired.  There is also ipv6.
• You can disable wifi, with a little work.  You’ll need to go into each of the 12 SSIDs and turn off ‘enable SSID’.  Status page will still show wifi on, with channel and strength.  But, in statistics / WLAN page, it should show as:
  2.4GHz WLAN Connection Disabled

  5GHz WLAN Connection Disabled

   

  As far as I can tell, wifi is not on at this point.

  It would be great in situations like this to be able to have this device bridge external to internal interface like many cable modems allow, passing the external IP directly to an internal firewall / router device.  But, that isn’t an option.

  If you use your own router / firewall, you are likely double NATing.

  External IP - Home Gateway - 192.168.12.x - firewall - internal IP space

  Not pretty, but will likely work for many types of connections.

I'm in the same boat. I'm sure I'm double natting. Maybe an upgrade will enable more features. If it wasn't for T-Mobile's aggressive pricing and Xfinity's overage costs, I'd probably would have stuck with Xfinity.

T-Mobile advertises no overages, so they should realize many of those customers are rather technical and probably have thier own router and wifi. 

A very simple 'cable modem' with no wifi and the ability to add external antennas would be ideal and probably cost them a lot less.

Hopefully, T-Mobile will realize this. I understand they are in the midst of a huge rollout but the service really holds great potential.

I just installed my router and I'm getting better signal with my router without any problems whats so ever. Everything works from my router. More control and better interface.