You could do the same with any router I suppose.
The technician only knows how to hook up the equipment. He called a specialist and I myself had to work with that specialist to figure it how to do it.
If you do nothing, what ATT will do is give you their wireless router with 4 network ports. It is fine if you have a small house or just use wired ports in far away rooms.
When you get internet to your home, the ISP gives the modem what is called WAN IP address which is seen by the world outside your home. You want your router to get the WAN IP address in case you have cameras in your house for security you want visible when you are not home. Also, you want a better router which provides local IP addresses to your devices and it knows the WAN IP address to send or receive requests from outside.
To do that, there are some steps involved.
Login to the ATT router by connecting your computer directly to one of the 4 local ports on it and open your browser and type 192.168.1.254.
1. Firewall/IP Passthrough
2. Allocation Mode: Passthrough
3. Passthrough Mode: DHCPS Fixed
4. Choose from list: MAC address of the Google Wifi Router
5. Go to Home Network and Disable DHCP
Now save settings before you disconnect the wire to the router.
Power off the router BGW-210-700
Disconnect LAN port of Google Wifi router
Power up BGW-210-700 Router
Power up the Google Wifi router and using the app on IOS or Android
change LAN IP Address on Google Wifi router to 192.168.1.1
All works. Only thing is if you have to change the setting of BGW-210-700
you have to factory reset it.
You can factory reset your Arris BGW210-700 in the following way(s)
1. When the router is on, press the button reset and hold for 30 seconds.
2. While holding down the button reset, turn off the power of the router and hold down the button reset for 30 seconds
3. While holding down the button reset, turn on the power to the unit again and hold for another 30 seconds
The technician only knows how to hook up the equipment. He called a specialist and I myself had to work with that specialist to figure it how to do it.
If you do nothing, what ATT will do is give you their wireless router with 4 network ports. It is fine if you have a small house or just use wired ports in far away rooms.
When you get internet to your home, the ISP gives the modem what is called WAN IP address which is seen by the world outside your home. You want your router to get the WAN IP address in case you have cameras in your house for security you want visible when you are not home. Also, you want a better router which provides local IP addresses to your devices and it knows the WAN IP address to send or receive requests from outside.
To do that, there are some steps involved.
Login to the ATT router by connecting your computer directly to one of the 4 local ports on it and open your browser and type 192.168.1.254.
1. Firewall/IP Passthrough
2. Allocation Mode: Passthrough
3. Passthrough Mode: DHCPS Fixed
4. Choose from list: MAC address of the Google Wifi Router
5. Go to Home Network and Disable DHCP
Now save settings before you disconnect the wire to the router.
Power off the router BGW-210-700
Disconnect LAN port of Google Wifi router
Power up BGW-210-700 Router
Power up the Google Wifi router and using the app on IOS or Android
change LAN IP Address on Google Wifi router to 192.168.1.1
All works. Only thing is if you have to change the setting of BGW-210-700
you have to factory reset it.
You can factory reset your Arris BGW210-700 in the following way(s)
1. When the router is on, press the button reset and hold for 30 seconds.
2. While holding down the button reset, turn off the power of the router and hold down the button reset for 30 seconds
3. While holding down the button reset, turn on the power to the unit again and hold for another 30 seconds
If you any other local router, follow instruction on how to change local IP address on your router to what your local cameras and printers are looking for. Mine is 192.168.1.x. So, unless I disable the DHCP server in ATT router, it will conflict with my router because it also uses 192.168.1.x. In any case you want DHCP sever to run only on your router and put the ATT router in Passthrough mode with its DHCP server disabled.
Yes. I know all this is complicated. Hope you know what you are doing or hire an expert....
