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By-passing the Wi-Fi Router Lockout
I live in an older home where I have run the necessary cabling to connect certain devices in varying rooms to the wi-fi routers I've had over the years via an unmanaged 1G switch. The issue / problem being enountered now is access to the admin area of the provided WiFi 7 Tri-Band Advanced Home Router ( Model SBE1V1K ) is restricted due to proprietary processes being accessible as well.
Side note here… I did try using the wifi pod to no avail becuase the pod would not pickup the those devices in the varying rooms, forcing them to connect through the wifi router making connectivity regretfully slow.
The question I have is, to bypass this restriction, can I connect the unmanaged switch to the modem ( via the wan port ) and then connect the wifi router to the switch? I would surmise that the wifi router would look to take primary position through the unmanaged switch BUT still allow the devices in the varying rooms to connect to the internet using the wired connections from the unmanaged switch.
Looking for alternative insights and opinions to see if this should work.
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No. You connect the router WAN port directly to the DOCSIS modem WAN port and then connect the LAN switch to one of the router's LAN ports and go from there.
🔗 https://www.spectrum.net/page/spectrum-equipment-manuals ↳ Wireless Routers ↳ Spectrum WiFi 7 Router ↳ 🔗 View Manual ↳ page 5
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P.S.: You can presumably use the My Spectrum app to dink around with the Advanced Home WiFi router settings.
🔗 https://www.spectrum.net/support/internet/advanced-wifi-advanced-settings
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The modem will be restricted in the number of connections it allows... Basically supposed to be a 1:1 external IP passthrough to single internal IP. So that first device should be either a hardware firewall or router NAT'ing out a private network layer. On the other side of that router, can do whatever you want with that private network.
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