Problem connecting Archer c5 router to DG834G v2 modem

[SiRome]

Hi, hoping someone can offer some advice.

I've recently bought a TP Link archer c5 router and am attempting to hook it up to my existing Netgear DG834G v2 router.

So far I've followed various googled advice routes but this is what should work as far as I can see:

1. Amend DG834G to "modem only" mode - I've done this by installing the DGTeam firmware, but also verified the device still worked as a full router (i.e. to confirm the firmware wasn't messing it up)

2. I've connected port 1 on the DG834 to my Archer C5 WAN port and set the Archer to PPPOE and put in the ISP (sky) ID and password which I took form the DG834

3. Howeve, it just won't connect. The Archer status shows it as Connecting... but never completes.

I feel like I'm missing something obvious but no idea what it is!

For info, the DG834 is on 192.168.0.1 and the Archer is on 192.168.1.1.

I've currently got it working simply by leaving the DG834 in full mode and routing into the Archer, and I use the Archer for wired and wireless input. Seems to work but got a feeling this double-natting might come to haunt me at some stage 🙂

Any help would be fabulous!

 

[RealBeast]

Do you really want to create a separate subnet with the TP Link? I would not recommend it, but I can walk you through that configuration if you *really* want it that way.

I would suggest that you attach the TP Link as a wireless access point and leave the DG834 as the modem and main router. To do that connect an LAN port on the DG834 to an LAN port on the TP Link, turn off DHCP on the TP Link, and give the TP Link a static IP address in the DG834 IP range, but outside of the DG834 DHCP assignable range, so use an IP address for the TP Link of something like 192.168.0.254

Then the TP Link wireless will work and its other three LAN ports will act just like a switch. All IP addresses will be assigned by the DG834. You will want to insure that the TP Link uses a different non-overlapping 2.4 GHz radio channel from the DG834 (so use 1, 6, or 11 on them -- but different on the two units so they won't interfere). You can use either the same or different SSIDs and security passkeys -- entirely up to you. I usually use the same passkey but a different SSID so you can control what connects to the main router and what connects to the TP Link on 2.4GHz. Obviously, you don't have any issue with the 5GHz AC radio as it is your only such radio.

 

[SiRome]

Thanks realbeast, from reading various forums it seemed possible that I could effectively just turn the dg834 into a pass-thru modem and then have the Tp link archer do all the real work.

Late last night I managed to get it working so that the dg834 wireless is off (isolated and not broadcasting ssid) so all connections are thru the Tp link archer.

Still hopeful but perhaps this is as good as the solution gets!!