Need help bridging

[pos]

Hi all i hope someone can help me. A little back ground i am on windstream dsl 1.5. They keep trying to bump me to 3.0 but when the tec comes they say i can not support 3.0 because i am right at 2000ft. Ok next i had an old 2wire modem that worked with out any problems and supported all my equipment it died after 8yrs and they replaced it with their latest and greatest sagom 1704n fast. And here is were the problems begin this 1704 keeps dropping or just needs to be rebooted no consistency in performance and i am on my 4th unit. So i purchased an actiontec which said it was compatiable with windstream which it is some what it will work great for about 2 weeks and then need to be reset and reinstalled. After much customer support it came to an antenuation problem which i am at 60 and the actiontec likes to be around 20s 30s. So my question is i think i can bridge my 1704 and from my understanding this means making the 1704 a straight modem which it will happilly connect to windstream . Then connect a really good router to the 1704 to do my network. So how do i do this and what would be a good router. Oh i also talked a long time to windstream support about differ modems and they said sagom 4320 which is not availible in my area. Any help would be great

 

[bill001g]

Bridging is the concept of converting from one media to another. In this case I suspect it would from ATM to ethernet. This is what is generally referred to as layer 2 connectivity in networking books.

When you say you have attenuation issues and distance problems this is all at the hardware level..ie layer 1. It really doesn't matter if it is bridged or not you have to get a clean electrical signaling before you can even thing to worry about data being carried over it.

You really are stuck because most your issues are related to the length and quality of the wire coming to your house that you can't realistically replace. All you can do is try to get lucky and find a device that is the most tolerant of poor DSL signal levels.

Now if you could find a device that was stable but had poor router features then you could bridge that to a different router but it would have to be related to features other than basic connectivity to be a valid thing to do.

 

[abailey]

Bill001g hit it on the head. Your problem seems to be attenuation. Do you use the phone lines in your house for phone connection too, or just DSL? When I was on DSL I did not use my phone lines for phone anymore, just for DSL. I was able to improve my signal by getting the phone company to run a line directly from their equipment on the side of my house to the modem in the house.

 

[pos]

Yes my line is dsl and phone. Although i only ordered dsl service and thebphone line is there for 911. I use a majic jack for phone service. I understand the line length issue but when i had the old 2wire modem all of my equipment worked . It wood slow
down when the kids were al on their tablets but it still worked a little slow but worked. The current modem 1704 has issues when the wifi is turned on. With the wifi off the modem works . I can get as high as 1.4mbs on my 1.5 service. I thought from what i read that if i put the 1704 into bridge mode that it basically cut out the wifi and router part and just worked as a modem. I want to use it straight as a modem and then connect in a good router . I believe this will work for me because the 1704 works well when its wifi is off.

 

[pos]

Oh yes thank you bill001g and abaily for your answers. So any help on how to connect a router to my modem to get a better wifi

 

[bill001g]

You would have to read the manual on how to bridge it some do not allow it. You would then run pppoe on the second router.

If your main issue is wireless it will likely be easier to disable the wireless radios in the main router and then use your other router as a AP. You pretty much hook them lan-lan, disable the dhcp in the second router and assign it a address that does not conflict with the first router.