Recent content by RASelkirk

I had forgotten to turn off "Access control" on the Netgear, guess that was messing me up. I ended up assigning IPs on the AX1800 last night before bed and it's all working as expected this am. Thanks!

Hi All, I recently bought a GLi.Net AX1800 "Flint" router to replace my Netgear R7000. Nothing wrong with the '7000, but the Flint has multiple internet sources like repeater mode, phone tethering, USB modem, etc that I wanted. I got the Flint up and running in no time - but - sadly the...

Ended up buying a GLi.Net AX1800 router to replace the Netgear. Has all the features I wanted, I like it so far but it seems the radio range is a lot less than the Nighthawk. Soooo, now I'm stuck trying to convert the Nighthawk into a repeater for the back of the house... Russ

Got a text in to D-i-L about which plan we have. My phone is a 4 y.o. LG6 (no longer showing in their list). It's latest 'droid update shows 8.0 (shows tethering is available,) but not sure if it'll work w/o additional T-Mobile "extras". If I had a router with USB tethering capability, I'd...

Yeah, but I didn't realize there are extra costs associated with tethering. The (T-Mobile) phone plan is in our daughter-in-law's name, I'm sure she's not gonna want to pay more. Russ

I typed this into search and came up with something interesting and cheap on AP. Seems like it's intended to be used as a receptor/repeater of hotel wifi, so thinking it *should* do all I need with it's setup for cable modem and wifi among others. Online user guide here. What ya'll think...

OK, I bricked my D-Link trying to upgrade it to DD-WRT, it's toast. I'm now looking at the Linksys, and can't figure out how to make this receive the WiFi signal from my hotspot. I have it connected to my laptop with a LAN cable and my hotspot is broadcasting fine. My laptop is disconnected from...

I'd certainly not like to suffer a large drop in performance. There's one RT-N56U left on Prime for $30-ish so I went to ASUS and see there are 2 manuals. One normal and one with ASUSWRT firmware but there's no difference showing in the manuals. Neither show an option for bridging. I don't know...

Besides the D-Link, my son has an old Linksys WRT54GL router which also appears to have DD WRT firmware available for it. As-is, it shows to have both router mode and gateway mode. Would gateway mode compare to bridge mode? Russ

Bingo! :cool: I just plugged the phone into my Win7x64 'puter USB port and selected "USB Tether". Got a popup message saying I needed to add "Smartphone Mobile Hotspot" to my rate plan, and DL a specific driver from lg.com. Also states "only works with Windows Vista and later". Not gonna...

I may be confusing things here. I DL'ed the ASUS RT-AX68U manual to have a look, and see that their setup of 3G/4G is quite a bit different than what I was hoping to do. I have a cell phone, the phone is USB-tether capable. I want to be able to set up my phone with USB tethering enabled, plug...

Hi All, I'm looking to buy a router that has auto-fallback USB phone tethering as well as the typical WAN port for a cable modem. I have seen a few ASUS routers and the Pepwave SOHO Surf router that have this. Any others that you can direct me to, or preferences between these brands? Thanks! Russ

OK, thanks. If I sound a bit lazy it's age speaking. At 70, I'm likely older than most on here and while the technology can be challenging, it's my (lack of) patience that usually gets in the way. Since I'll end up buying a new router just to get the tethering and rollover features, I'll try it...

Good to know. Since we don't plan on leaving unless there's a Cat 4 or better, I can just pull the e'net cable from the modem if it doesn't switch over. I'm starting to think about this, just dreading all the new configuring to be done... The R7000 subnet is the usual 255.255.255.0 that most...

Hi All, I am in an area with numerous lengthy power failures. Even though we have a Generac, whenever the power is out, so goes our Spectrum cable. And hurricane season is here! In the past, I've fumbled around setting up my existing router (Netgear R7000) in bridge mode with my phone as a...