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A router is a device that forwards data packets across multiple networks. Questions tagged with router can cover router hardware, software, and network configuration.

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Acess router config from remote machine

I can't login to my router (Thomson twg870) config site from a remote machine (WAN address), even when the "Remote Config Management" option is enabled, and custom (not default) credentials are set. ...
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Are errors and drops a normal thing?

My Router ( D-Link DSL 6850U ) has a status window for the LAN which shows the following: This is in contrast to the WAN statistics which show zero drops and errors. I wanted to know: 1) Does having ...
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How to configure a home network when ethernet connections are made in a line?

I have a few question on what the optimal setup of network devices would be given my current situation: I moved into a rented apartment that has a wall plate with two RJ45 sockets in every bedroom / ...
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How to port forward on Genexis Platinum 4410?

I have checked portforward.com but it does not have anything regarding this router. I have searched the router console, but could not find anything other than inbound firewall rules(is that the same ...
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Multiple Servers, Networking Issues

I have couple of servers, both of which are running different websites. They both have the same external IP address (I'm running them from my home and I have only one router with one IP address). ...
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Use a TP-Link W8968 as a wireless repeater

I have two TP-Link W8968 routers, I'm using one of them for my internet connection. I would like to know how to configure the second one to work as a: Wireless signal extender/repeater Wireless ...
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Can’t access config page of my ASUS after setting it as a media bridge

I set up my router (ASUS) to act as a media bridge, then I connected to the router using a Ethernet cable and Internet and everything works fine. When I try to access the router using IP 192.168.1.1,...
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How to configure to use D-Link DSL-2750E as second router

Problem: many users on my network (often streaming video) use up a lot of the bandwidth of my network. Since yesterday I have new service provider who gave me new ZTE router. It handles the incoming ...
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Route between modem and secondary router through OpenVPN tunnel

ifconfig: [sean@vpnroute ~]$ ifconfig enp2s0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 inet 192.168.1.73 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.1.255 inet6 fe80::...
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Configuring static routing on three routers with IPv6 and IPv4

I have my home network configured as shown on the diagram below. What I need is to be able to acces the NAS from the other subnet. Two routers are running Asus WRT and static routing can be added The ...
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No internet access when modem reboots

I have a cable modem (A) given by my ISP (which has only 1 RJ 45 Ethernet port along with the ISPs cable input port) a modem+router (B) and another router (C). A lan cable connects A to B, another ...
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Setting up a Server with Dual Stack Lite

I have the following problem: My ISP provides me with a shared IPv4 address and a universal IPv6 address (Dual Stack Lite). I want to host a (game) server at my home but I've ran into a few problems....
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Ubiquiti USG & Port Forwarding

could somebody help me out with the following issue? My ISP is providing me with a static IP and a hardware only modem (1 RJ45 output). This goes to my switch and from the switch, it goes to my USG. ...
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Default gateway ping too high

I have a cable modem router C7000-100NAS. I can't seem to figure out why when I ping the default gateway(192.168.0.1) I get high pings ranging from 8ms to 500 ms, this is NEVER below 2ms as it should ...
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link internet router to PCs using RJ-45 port

I have TB-link internet router and LAN cable linked to RJ-45 port now when I need to connect a PC to that LAN port using another LAN cable linked from that LAN cable to a PC it wont connect and the ...
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Connecting two independent networks onto a switch

I have two independent ISP connections connected to two separate routers. I am just curious what will happen If I connected the two routers to a single switch and then connected a computer to one of ...
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Securing a public Pi-Hole?

I'm using these instructions to set up a Pi-Hole on an Always Free Google Compute Server. The end goal is to route DNS requests to it from my Google Wi-Fi home router, as well as being able to use it ...
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Why do most usb to serial cables you can buy include serial-male and not serial-female?

While searching for a cable to connect a router to my pc via serial I realized, that most cables available on Amazon are male USB to male. But when I look at most routers and switches they also have ...
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Computer time does not auto update to current time windows 10

I have a table with Windows 10 version 1803 This table attached to a cellular router(meaning the router have SIM inside him to provide the internet). but for some reason the time and date on the ...
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Router Access Point not assigning IP addresses

Hopefully a quick question here about problems I'm having whilst setting up a router being ghetto rigged into a access point at my mates house. The main router is connected via ethernet cable to the ...
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Remotely accessing a router

I have two routers set up in my home, and I'm trying to make sure that my secondary router can be accessed "remotely" from my primary router (basically I want access to its settings page), but not ...
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Changing dns server address at router

I have a cable modem+router (let's call it A) and an RJ-45 cat 6 cable which originates from A and goes to another router (B). Most of my wifi enabled devices use B's wifi netowrk. I want to change to ...
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Router User Interface is very slow and freezes sometimes

I have a problem with my router which sometimes drops the internet connections and freezes. When the internet connection drops I go to the Router web interface and it takes up to 20 seconds to load. ...
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WoL magic packet to PC behind a DS-Lite router on IPv6

This is my first time posting here, so bear with me. I have an internet connection in Germany and the router is implementing a Dual-Stack Lite technology to have both IPv4 and IPv6 capabilities. The ...
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Why doesn't a router forward messages to hosts on different subnets?

I have a question about the following scenario: Host A has been configured with a static IP of 192.168.3.123/24 Host B has been configured with a dynamic IP of 192.168.1.55/24 The router has the IP ...
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Outbound SSH Connection Refused

I'm working on integrating Ansible to a project to interface with Cisco routers/switches. My issue doesn't seem related to Ansible or my configuration itself, however, as I'm finding if I manually ...
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Does the "Guest" network of Apple's Airport Extreme router weaken the signal of the regular 5GHz network?

Does the "Guest" network of Apple's Airport Extreme router weaken the signal of the regular 5GHz network, or is it fine to have on? They seem to be on the same channel without an option to change that....
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Desktop switch acts as gateway

I have a network switch that's used to share my internet at home.The router is connected to the switch and several other devices are connected to the various switch ports in different rooms.Everything ...
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Slow internet speeds (but fast speed test results)

About a month ago I started to notice that uploading to Google Drive was suddenly much slower than it should be. Up until January I was paying for 100Mb up and the same down and could upload to GDrive ...
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port forwarding not working with a dual-lan device

I have a NAS at home with dual lan cable connected with two different subnets. - lan1: 192.168.31.185 on subnet 192.168.31.0/24 - lan2: 192.168.10.42 on subnet 192.168.10.0/24 And on this NAS ...
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FTP Between Different Subnets/Routers/Firewalls

Setup Router A connected to the internet on the 192.168.178.x subnet. Router B connected to router A through the WAN port on the 192.168.2.x subnet. IIS FTP server running on a PC connected to router ...
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Can I use any type of wifi antenna extension cable for dual-band signals?

I've a wifi network card capable of dual-band signals. The card is able to connect to either the 2.4Ghz or 5Ghz signals from the router. As the antennas are attached to the card behind the desktop ...
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How to combine internet connections from multiple devices in a single device?

My main machine: 2015 Macbook Pro. It has a maximum download speed of 8MB/s using wifi which I don't have control over. This machine has the ability to reach +60MB/s however it doesn't because of the ...
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How to access to the router for advanced configuration?

everyone. I brought a router which is Huawei WS318 recently and I want to make it as a DHCP relay. But I couldn't find the advanced setting on web page.So I decide to use CLI. However I couldn't ...
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Home Wifi or DNS is dropping / ignore every 2nd request to any website

So my home LAN is a mix of Wifi and cables. The deskop pc's that are wired network connections -> no problems at all. My wifi connections are failing to connect to any website 50% of the time. I ...
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Can I use my laptop as router in the bridge mode?

In the dormitory I have only ethernet and very low wifi signal. To connect to internet all MAC addresses should be registered to the system. To share wifi they told me I have to use a router in bridge ...
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Two ISP's on one network - Help needed [closed]

I have a friend who has a setup with two ISP's. They are running an insurance agency and are obliged to use an ISP from their insurance company. Problem with this ISP is that it is superslow (4Mbit) ...
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Configuring old router as repeater?

I have been at it for about two days and let me give a detailed account of all the settings that I have set. For the sake of clarity I will call the router which as Internet connection (WAN) as the ...
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YouTube is consuming much bandwidth than other operations on my home network

I've a problem that when I'm surfing Facebook, Twitter, stackOverflow or any other site than YouTube, Pages usually takes lot of time to download. While, YouTube don't have any problems. I've a 2 Mbps ...
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What is my Gateway?

My wireless router has these items when I set it up, but I don't know the Gateway number. IP Address 192.168.1.100 Subnet Mask 255.255.255.0 DNS Server 192.168.1.1 Secondary DNS Server 0.0.0.0 It ...
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Tenda MW6 mesh is talking to baidu -what is it doing?

I recently picked up a set of tenda MW6 mesh units - I'm running this in "bridged" mode, since that's the only option that turns off their dhcp server. The primary mesh unit connected to a DIY linux ...
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Is a router always necessary? Even if only networking 2 machines?

As title says, I have 2 machines, well I actually have a PLC and a windows computer. I need the PLC to be able to reach the PC, so I need them on the same network. I've proven the set-up when they're ...
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One of two "slave" routers always disconnects after some time

I have a network setup that can be seen on the picture. The red arrow shows the problematic part. I have 3 netis routers, the main router is connected to the internet, other 2 routers are in a router ...
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Is My Router Blocking SMB 445?

I am trying to mount an Azure File Share from my Ubuntu 18.10 laptop (kernel 4.18.0-15-generic). sudo mount -t cifs //12345xyz.file.core.windows.net/username-company-com-100120003abcd4e5 /mnt/...
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Connect 200 Oculus Go to a single wireless router?

How to broadcast real time data to 200 Oculus Go? The sent data would be approximately 4800 bits of information, at least 25 times per seconds. All Oculus Go would receive the same data. This seems ...
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How to determine a reason of slow WiFi in my local network?

In local network of company I have nodes connected over cable and over Wifi. Local network is run with Netis router (installed right under the ceiling). Interestingly but nodes connected by cable run ...
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Configure dnsmasq as IPv6 nameserver but let router do routing (and maybe IP address assignment)

Suggestions welcome! I'm moving DHCP and DNS services from a combined router (192.168.0.1) to a separate system (running on 192.168.0.2) with dnsmasq. I want the first system to be the default route ...
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Routing entire network's internet traffic through a VPN ,

I want to route all traffic in my home network through a vpn. I currently have a sagemcom FAST 5364 router provided by my ISP. I also have two previous routers, which I don't use, from my ISP (Huawei ...
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Using pfSense as a VPN client with two other routers

I'm trying to set up pfSense to sit inbetween my existing ISP router and another AP router I have. I had a setup originally where my second AP accessed the ISP router with the WAN port - this worked ...
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Expose a mysql server over an ssh tunnel

I've used remote and local forwarding with succes in the past, but this time I can't get a setup to work. What I'm trying to achieve: Make my sql server publicly reachable so the Google CloudSql can ...
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