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Re:Weirdly broken Wi-Fi access points by ajdlinux on Tuesday September 13, 2016 @12:08AM (#12485569)
I would love to use {Open,DD-}WRT, but it seems there's generally not great support for DSL modems :(
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Re:Weirdly broken Wi-Fi access points by stordoff on Tuesday September 13, 2016 @01:23AM (#12485801)
I ended up just keeping my ISP router as is, and putting a DD-WRT router behind it. I suspect the double layer of NAT isn't great, but I've been doing it for years without issue.

DD-WRT has been pretty solid for that, even in non-ideal network setups (currently have it connected to the ISP router as a 2.4GHz client, then acting as a 5GHZ AP for my other devices).

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Re:Weirdly broken Wi-Fi access points by pricechild on Tuesday September 13, 2016 @04:49AM (#12486498)
Are you not using the isp provided router as a modem only? Why not do pppoe (or whatever) on your dd-wrt?
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Re:Weirdly broken Wi-Fi access points by creshal on Tuesday September 13, 2016 @05:12AM (#12486567)
Not all offer PPPoE, for some unfathomable reason.
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Re:Weirdly broken Wi-Fi access points by mindslight on Tuesday September 13, 2016 @12:46AM (#12485692)
Use a separate modem and router. If you can disable NAT on your current combo unit then you already have the modem.
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