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Originally Posted by idlewild
Thanks! Great advice on ordering a switch with at least 2.5GB ports - will do.
Curious as to why you would recommend leaving Calix alone and dumbing down my own router? I'm looking at the Unifi Dream Router 7 for reference. I'm sure this is an in depth technical discussion so feel free to summarize, if you can. Is it as simple as the the cost of double NATing outweighing the benefits of added security / features I could use with the DR7? |
Here is some information on double NATing. At the end of the day, if you are not gaming it shouldn't be a problem and to be honest, in the home market, it's done all the time when people want to use their own equipment. Also, when you call Centric, let us know what they say. They may not be so resistent to put the Calix in bypass mode. The only downside for them is in bypass mode they can't see the router any more when troubleshooting and it won't take any more updates when Centric pushes them out. I'm kind of surprised they lock out some of the router settings but we are very lucky to have a fiber internet option. As I mentioned, with Quantum there are no restrictions once you log into the router but there was a time where there was a firmware bug when you put their router in Bypass mode so I had to leave it and was double NATing and never had a problem or saw any real difference.
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