Well me and my brothers are going to combine netwroks but most of us don't want to use our brothers apple router so i was wondering is it possible to split the internet from the modem and if so how would it effect the internet speeds up and down
As in, you are going to be running two wireless routers from the same modem, or you are going to be running two cat5 cables from the same modem? Either way, it shouldn't affect anything performance-wise.
if you are going to run 2 separate routers in the house there will be some configurations you will need to take in account
1. Router Ip addresses
2. Channels
3. DHCP ranges might need to be adjusted to avoid conflicts among devices.
all minor and easy things to fix but things that will give you a headache none the less if you dont take care of them.
well it probably would end up being two separate cables coming from the modem because we don't want to run one router off another
^^^ This will not be a working solution for you ^^^
what willl work then because we most of us dont want to deal with the apple router
there is some options, but how familiar are you really with networking equipment? if your wanting wireless then you would have to configure 2 separate wireless routers if you really don't want to use the apple which can prove to be a headache if your not familiar with changing things like the local ip of the router, some DMZ functionality DHCP ranges and etc, my first post I made to your topic covered some of the stuff you would have to take care of but you seem to have ignored that one.
sorry about ignoring your first comment it just seemed like you were kinda giving a breif steps for cascading but we dont really need wireless of of the non apple router we just want to use the non apple router because it is easier to setup port triggering and port forwarding on it than the apple router
you would essentially still need to have the 2 routers connected to each other then, if you DMZ the second routers IP address on the apple, then then second router should ignore all the protocols in place by the Apple router giving you the option to setup port forwarding and firewalls on it instead. otherwise you will run into the problem where you need to do port forwarding, triggering, ranging exactly the same on both routers which is what you are trying to avoid.
There is a little more to it, but that is a good idea of what you would have to do, It would probably be easier and much more time efficient to not use the apple all together.
yeah thats what i think but my brother swear is apple router is the best router ever made although it is better than the otherrouter
apple routers are not bad, they are cumbersome to navigate, but there is much much much nicer units available, the only real convenience I can conceive of using an apple router is it makes networking apple devices more streamlined in the house, but this is something you can take care of with static ip's on those devices in the first place, apple tends to have issues connecting to normal everyday routers which is why they made their own to begin with.
i don't know why he likes it so much we don't have any apple devices in the house
lol that is almost to funny, generally speaking the apple router is more of a plug and play setup, not to sound to horribly rude but its really intended for the less technically inclined individual, this could perhaps be why he loves it so much? I mean they have basically no features to speak of and lack alot of features you can get with other brands. SNMP comes to mind, only allows use of external hard drives formatted for apple use, and you have no other devices in the house so that's really a shame to.
Well it depends on your current setup to what you can do.
If you have purely a modem (aka has your given ISP connection and a single RJ45 Ethernet connector) then you will require either a third router or to plug one of the routers into the other to pass data through. Obviously managing your subnets so no IPs clash and so data can still be passed.
If you have a modem-router combo (will have your given ISP connection and usually 4 RJ45 ethernet ports) then you can simply link the two routers into that. You will then need to disable DHCP on the modem-router and assign it a static IP, with the two connected routers, also assigning a static IP that matches the subnet of the modem-router on the port that connects them together. You shall then be able to run DHCP out of the router (if you don't plan on using a dedicated server) and only allow it to run out of the remaining ports, not the one given a static IP that routes back to the modem (otherwise shit will go down)