rustydusty
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| D-LINK 604+
Anyone tell me if this router will work with my broadband? I think it was used with ADSL (Telus), however I don't have the router at my house to know for sure. If it was used by telus and is a modem/router, can it switched to just a router? I managed to switch an old 2-wire Telus modem/router to just a router, but I wanna make sure this router will work before I drive for an hour to get it. |
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Stone Mountain, GA | It is just a router. |
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rustydusty
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1 edit | It is a router and modem from telus. I have it in my hands now. There is no port to connect my ethernet from my modem. Is there any way to make this just a router and not a modem? I converted an older telus modem/router to just a router, but not sure with this one.
Did a google search and I read up to disable DHCP, is this true? Which port does the ethernet from my cable modem need to be plugged into on the router? |
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Stone Mountain, GA | reply to rustydusty
Then it is not a standard D-Link 604 router. Sounds like a provider-specific one, not much use elsewhere. |
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rustydusty
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| Like I have said, it is a Telus one. It can be converted to just a wired/wireless router, I know it can. I'm just un-sure how to go about doing it on this one. On my Telus 2wire, I just accessed the router's web panel and changed it to broadband. This one doesn't have that option, but I'm sure someone on these forums has done the same thing. Probabally with a different router, but it should be similar. |
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Stone Mountain, GA | With no WAN ethernet port, it can not be used as a router for a non-DSL interface.
You might be able to use it as an access point. |
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rustydusty
join:2009-09-29 | Well all the devices that will be connected to it are wireless, but what exactly do you mean by access point? Basically use it like a switch? I'm guessing that's what you mean. |
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Stone Mountain, GA | Us it to connect wireless to the local LAN. Most routers if you disable DHCP, you can use them as access points.
As an access point, the LAN ports and wireless clients are effectively one network. |
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rustydusty
join:2009-09-29 | So disable DHCP, that's easy enough. Which port do I connect the ethernet cable to? 4 ethernet ports and then the DSL port. |
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Stone Mountain, GA | Connect it to one of the LAN ports. |
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rustydusty
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| Well I'll give it a shot. Will all of the other ports still work, besides the one ethernet from the modem? I forgot they have one desktop that needs to be connected to. I read up that doing bridging will work? Is this possible to? How do you do bridging? |
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Stone Mountain, GA | All ports will work as long as your modem can hand out IP addresses. Is your modem also a router (cable modem.)
Bridging does not apply to this modem as you are not using teh ADSL port. |
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rustydusty
join:2009-09-29 | I'm using the motorola docsis 2.0 modem. I have two ip address's in total. Everything will be run on wireless, except the one desktop. |
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