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WAN or Wide Area Network is one that spans more than one geographical area, usually across city, regional or national boundaries. The Internet is an example of a WAN.

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How Wifi devices can be accesses from out side

I just purchased a Nest Cam and installed the app. It works just fine and I can watch my house from out side. But always wondered, how can this device reconfigure my router to create some type of port ...
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WAN port redirecting to default router gateway

I have a website on which I'm hosting Citrix NetScaler that is supposed to facilitate external access in my environment. I have created an A record in my external DNS zone with the router's public IP ...
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Exclude external IP from OpenVPN in tomato router

I have all traffic going through a VPN in my tomato router. I’d like to exclude my gaming server’s address from the VPN. How do I exclude that one specific external IP address from the VPN in the ...
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Configure WAN in my netgear dgn1000v3

I have this router. I am using it as a modem i.e input is given via a RJ-11 jack. Now I am switching to an ISP that is giving me co-axial cable (RJ-45) as input. I think my router supports WAN. But ...
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PRTG- Deploy remote probe to remote network

I would like to monitor a remote network, which I have permission to do so. The PRTG Core would be in AWS (80.80.80.23 example) and I would deploy the PRTG remote probe to a remote network (40.40.40....
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unable to bridge traffic from the same subnet of WAN & LAN

I am studying LAN/WAN setup and encountered issue that unable to bridge traffic from the same subnet. I bought one AP and test the LAN/WAN setup as following. I can reach the WAN port (wifi1) from an ...
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Dual-WAN Traffic

I am setting up a Cisco RV320 Dual-WAN router. I am trying to set it up so that that a particular LAN device (i.e. IP Address 192.168.1.9) will only use WAN port 2. I have found the page in the ...
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Port Forwarding Double NAT

Over the past few days , I am trying, without success, to do port forwarding in order to connect my Camera from remote (WAN) and not just from home (LAN). This is the IP of the camera : 192.168.1.110 ...
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Sierra Wireless EM7455 No Signal

I bought a Sierra wireless EM7455 for my new Thinkpad P40 laptop. I was able to get the driver installed and windows recognizes the modem, SIM and GPS however it will not connect to the cellular ...
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Port binding and how to use it when setting up a secondary router

I am trying to understand what my WAN settings should be and how my ports should be bound for the following setup: Context: I have a main router (let’s call this "sky") on the first floor, but the ...
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How can I connect two TP-LINKS routers using WAN-WAN?

I'm trying to set up an Internet emulation using 2 TP-LINK routers and 2 computers. The first computer-router is in LAN: 192.168.0.0 The second computer-router is in LAN: 192.168.1.0 The connection ...
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Dual WAN Failover Routing w/ Dynamically Assigned IP Addresses

I'm setting up a portable, embedded Linux machine for use in outdoor environments where I'm likely to get internet access either via an in-field wireless network or a cellular data connection. On top ...
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My computer redirecting it's IP to another connected modem

So here's the setup, our main modem is in the living room which comes from the Internet service provider, then I setup a 2nd modem (WRT54G) with an IP of 1.2.3.4. Now if anyone wants to connect to a ...
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My computer is switching it's IP to another connected network modem

Our main modem (Optical Network Unit) is in the living room which comes from the ISP. Then I set up WRT54G, making it the 2nd modem, which I set up with an IP of 1.2.3.4. If anyone wants to connect to ...
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Web Server won't load with Public IP outside the LAN

I recently set up a web server on my Raspberry Pi with a static IP of 192.168.0.28. I opened private and public port 80 through the router to this IP; it is a D-Link DIR-655 with the latest firmware ...
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Why can I access my RDP using DDNS outside network (internet), but not from inside (LAN)?

I have LTE provider with VPN feature (for my home network), so I used DDNS (no-ip.com) and configured my routers and other devices that I can access all my windows machines remotely. For example. I ...
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5 usable static IP addresses, can I have 5 computers each have their own WAN IP address when accessing Internet?

With 5 static IP addresses, could I have 5 computers each get their own WAN IP or will all the computers share 1 WAN IP address? And if I want to setup 3 computers to use static IP #1 and 4 other ...
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Get different IP based on Laptop location (internal/external network)

First, I am not really a network guy. Hence, I would like to validate my approach of setting up a solution, before I dive into the rabbit hole... I have a small home office / entertainment LAN, which ...
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How To Port Forward To Machine on the LAN?

Win10. I can port forward to my IP cameras because they have a Port number. 10.0.0.97:97 for instance is one of them. I forward WAN port 97 to LAN port 97. Job done. But how do I forward to a ...
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Router with wan/lan port speed negociation setting

I am trying to disable auto-negotiation on the WAN port of my Asus RT-AC66U router. This is because it has problems with the CAT5 cable which is embedded inside the wall of my apartment. The issue is ...
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Can't browse but can ping

A couple days ago, abruptly, all devices on my network (2 android phones, a Windows 10 laptop, and a Mac) started having web browsing problems: Some sites work fine Some sites are very slow Some ...
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How can I configure pfSense to allow traffic from LAN to WAN?

My topology is as the picture above. I've configure to allow incoming traffic into each pfSense interface, include 3 LAN and 1 WAN. Ex: I can ping from DC to pfSense interface in the same network. I ...
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Configuring two routers, lan to lan or lan to wan?

I've recently got a fiber connection installed so now I have 2 routers, the new alcatel (192.168.1.254) optical fiber one and my old expensive tp-link (192.168.1.1) router. I want the tp-link router ...
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What is this ip for?

I'm connected to a typical home router by wifi . Checking nm-applet in ubuntu xenial , i see that i have one IPv4 configured & one IPv6 with nothing written below . More info in command: $ ip a ...
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Router to Router connection

I got a problem with my network. For simplicity reason I will say Router A and Router B. Router B is connected through a wire with Router A. I ran from the Router A port straight into the WAN Port ...
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Getting Wake on Internet (WAN WOL - Magic Packet) run on Windows 10? (Intel I217-V)

Under Network Adapters I have an Intel Ethernet Connection I217-V. With Windows 7 I was able to configure my computer to wake up on a magic packet, I am using the app WolON. After a fresh ...
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How to use WAN ip address to host site?

I'm was trying to do Port Forwarding to host website from home server in my TP-Link TL-WR841N Router. I use static IP address of my server, I opened port "80" from Windows Firewall. I even changed ...
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Dual ISP/Network, Force DHCP Clients to One?

I've got two ISPs, connected to their own respective routers running on their own subnets. Set up routes on both so I can connect to the resources on either. The ASUS RT‑AC66U is set to dual WAN, with ...
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Simulate Two Separate Networks on VMWare Player

Using VMWare Workstation 12 Player on host machine, Win 10. Would like to create two separate networks using VMWare, yet they have Internet connection. Kali Linux, 192.168.88.129 has NAT network ...
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My WAN IP isn't the same as my public IP (Assigned by my ISP)

Let’s say something about the problem (If there's some like that). What’s my configuration? I have Fibertel ISP (Argentina) with a modem and a router behind it. The server is connected through wire ...
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Two Internet Connections - One LAN (Load Balancing?)

If we have two different Internet Connections (one is substantially faster than the other), is there any way to connect both to the LAN, using some kind of load balancing to utilize both connections. ...
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Why connecting the WAN port and a LAN port of a router?

In this post (in Chinese), there's a configuration that I don't understand: they connect the WAN port and a LAN port of the same router by a cable, and connect the cable which furnishes the Internet ...
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Gigabit router seems to only support 100mbps WAN?

I have 2 Dlink gigabit routers. not connected at the same time though. i bought the DIR-855L to replace the DIR-655. They are listed as Gigabit both WAN and LAN. But my 200mbps internet only comes out ...
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LAN / WAN issues when transferring large amounts of data

I'm having an issue when I copy data from a PC to my NAS at gigabit speeds. My Router is an Asus RT-68U ROUTER --> Port 3 --> Printer | | | ---> Port 1 --> NetGear GS108PE ...
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What is the correct syntax to set Signal to noise (SNR) offset or target noise margin in ZyXel AMG1202 t10b

I tried to find CLI reference for my router (ZyXel AMG1202 t10b) but couldn't find it on their website (there is for older and newer models but not for this one) I already contacted their support but ...
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Iball Modem's LAN port as WAN port

My modem is 150M Wireless-N ADSL2 + Router Model No.: iB-WRA150N with firmware :2.0.0 Build 120626 Rel.13023. In this device there are 4 LAN ports(RJ45) and 1(RJ11) port for telephone cable. ...
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Efficiency of using external IP to reach LAN device

I have a CCTV DVR that I use with a phone app. My home router updates DYNDNS, so the phone app uses to [email protected] as the IP. Here's what I have always wondered: If I use the phone app while ...
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Stream media over Internet

I have a server on a remote location on which are running a couple of VMs with Ubuntu Server. I'd like to install a kind of media stream service (like DLNA), but which I can access over the Internet ...
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Cradlepoint wifi as wan with 2 networks

So, basically, I currently have a cradlepoint router set up to relay a cell phone that we have jailbroken and set up to tether. That works fine. What I would like to do, is introduce a 2nd internet ...
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Dropping internet over WiFi

For well over a month now I've been having frequent outages in my outgoing connection over WiFi. The actual WiFi signal is stable and strong, and I'm perfectly able to reach devices in my home network,...
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How to Share Laptop internet to router via ethernet port

How to Share Laptop internet to router via ethernet port. Laptop is also connected with another wifi network so how we can share that internet from laptop to router. In which port on router (WAN or ...
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DD-WRT and having two WAN ip address

I apologize if I don't get my terminology correctly, but I'm not a networking guru. I have a DD-WRT router that is behind my ISP's router. My ISP router gives me an IP address of 192.168.1.8. I set ...
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DLNA/Multicast over vpn (Plex)

I'm not a networking pro and I've been trying to get this to work for the last couple of days. Infrastructure: Home: vdsl 100/40, fritzbox 7490 ip range: 192.168.100.0/24 linux server which runs ...
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Cannot connect with WPA2 (AES) encryption + EAP-TTLS PAP with FreeRADIUS auth

I successfully set up an enterprise Wi-Fi connection with LDAP authentication by way of FreeRADIUS. I used EAP-TTLS PAP because I have hashed passwords in my OpenLDAP directory. When I use TKIP ...
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Safe Capture of WAN Packets

I have an aggregating network tap between my WAN connetion and my home router. I have a dedicated machine running Wireshark to capture all WAN traffic via the network tap. This machine is running ...
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WAN security and port forwarding for IoT

I have an esp8266 board that I've set up as a little server. To access it over the web (first forays into making a smart home and IoT) I've used no-ip to deal with dynamic DNS and opened up WAN access ...
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When using a WAN, which state will appear on a Geolocation Scan?

Let's say I work for a coffee shop chain and their WAN is routed out of Florida. If my coffee shop is in NJ, will my IP address appear as NJ or FL?
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Are there any other global networks other than the internet?

The original question was asked here. I am interested in knowing the same. Are there any other global networks other than the internet? Or non-global but on a country-wide scale(ATM network maybe?) ...
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How to get my router IP address (assigned by ISP via DHCP)

My router has a WAN PRIVATE IP address which is assigned via DHCP by my ISP. This is different from my public IP address of course. In my router settings page I can read it: 10.245.134.71, and ...
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DD-WRT Force New WAN IP Address

Is there a way to force a new WAN IP Address with DD-WRT? I know there was a way before that would require temporarily setting a new Local IP or Modifying the WAN but I do not remember.
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