router to bypass at&t 2-wire
I noticed on the previous forum that someone purchased a new router to bypass the at&t 2wire, as that is not compatible with DNS. Could anyone elaborate? Good brand? If I get a second router to bypass the 2wire, will it work for all devices? (Iphones, laptops, computers) or only some of them?
Thanks!
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"bypass the at&t 2wire"
You cannot "bypass" an ISP supplied device, no way, because you need this for your internet connection unless you simply replace it by another device if you can. But you can change your network behaviour to a certain extent with another router behind the ISP device.
"that is not compatible with DNS"
Every device is (must be) compatible with DNS, else you would be unable to surf the web and do other networking things. Everybody needs DNS. Therefore every ISP provides DNS already, but not necessarily the service you want as offered by a 3rd party like OpenDNS.
Whatever, for some devices it may not be possible to configure them with static DNS server addresses like the ones of OpenDNS.
"If I get a second router to bypass the 2wire, will it work for all devices? (Iphones, laptops, computers) or only some of them?"
As said, not "bypass". And sure, routers are designed that you can connect every device to it. I've never heard of a router where you can connect only certain devices. The question is merely if this second router plays well with your ISP device and vice versa. Only your ISP or the firmware programmers of this ISP device can know. And the supplier of the second router.
"davemaddux, do you have any info on this?"
Who's davemaddux?
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I was able to successfuly install a router that points to Open DNS behind an AT&T 2Wire home gateway. Here is how I accomplished it ...
I had AT&T set up the home gateway with the standard setup (defaults). I then connected a laptop using an ethernet cable to the 2Wire home gateway (HG). Using the laptop, I disabled the HG wifi. I then connected a Netgear R6300 router to the HG via an ethernet cable. The cable ran from one of the 4 LAN ports on the HG directly to the WAN port on the Netgear router. (Please note that if you have 4 TVs, all of the network ports will be occupied on the HG. Buy a 4-port network switch, attach the TVs to the switch, and the switch to one LAN port on the HG ... now you should have 3 free LAN ports.)
I connected a second laptop to the Netgear router using an ethernet cable. I set the DHCP on the Netgear to use a different subnet (e.g. 192.168.2.0 - 254) from the one that the HG is using. Then I configured the Netgear wifi to my preferences (set the network name and password, etc.). I also set my preferred DNS servers for Open DNS.
I went back to the laptop connected to the HG and went to the firewall settings. I selected the Netgear router and set it to DMZPlus. This allows the router to "share" the public IP address as the HG and allows the router to talk directly to the "internet world".
After all those changes were made, I turned all the equipment off and restarted it in the following order:
1. Home gateway
2. Netgear router
3. Devices connected to Netgear router
It now works like a charm. Everything is routed through Open DNS.
Good luck!
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