One NZ Huawei B818_22BF mobile broadband with TP Link ER605

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perplu

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#311803 15-Feb-2024 16:56

I'm connected to One NZ with their Huawei B818_22BF modem router. I have a TP-Link ER605 and a few EAP110 wireless APs that I want to use to run the entire network wired and wireless instead of the B818. I've looked around on this site and google to see if its possible. Not sure yet.

Presumably I connect the ER605 LAN port (not its WAN port) to the B818 and then the EAP110's via a POE injector to the ER605. Yes, no?

konfusd

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#3195988 15-Feb-2024 18:29

*The below does not constitute official advice from One NZ, and is technically not a supported configuration*

I don’t have any experience with the TP-Link gear, but I do have a B818 for the secondary WAN connection on my UniFi-based home network.

You’ll want to connect the ER605 WAN port to the B818, and put the B818 into bridge mode.And yes, connect the EAP110s via POE to the ER605.

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#3195995 15-Feb-2024 19:00

I have this exact set up B818 with ER605, I have mine going through the WAN port, with a static IP, that doing DHCP to a separate TpLink WiFi network though.

Also I assume you have a static ip for your b818?? As in no CGNAT if your wanting to VPN in

perplu

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#3196002 15-Feb-2024 19:38

Thanks - I'll have to check the ISP (One NZ) connection is a static IP. I've noted what the WAN IP is and will reboot the B818 a couple of times to see if it changes. I did wonder if bridge mode was required. I'll try that out. Thanks heaps. I had the B818 DHCP configured to provide a static IP to the ER605; and configured the ER605 to have the same static IP.

Don't need to VPN in, and "As in no CGNAT if your wanting to VPN in" is a little beyond my knowledge at the mo. I'll have to read up about CGNAT as I like to understand in any case.

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#3196020 15-Feb-2024 20:41

Read up about CGNAT - would be useful if I'm not on it as have security cameras, google home, shelly what are useful to connect to remotely. Found this site to check if ISP performs CGNAT and used all three methods - looks like it doesn't. So thats a plus. Can't post the link as some words aren't allowed by geekzone but if you google "How to check whether of not your ISP performs CGNAT in New Zealand" its the first thing that comes up.

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#3196859 17-Feb-2024 19:15

konfusd: *The below does not constitute official advice from One NZ, and is technically not a supported configuration*

I don’t have any experience with the TP-Link gear, but I do have a B818 for the secondary WAN connection on my UniFi-based home network.

You’ll want to connect the ER605 WAN port to the B818, and put the B818 into bridge mode.And yes, connect the EAP110s via POE to the ER605.

I have played around with the B818 a lot and I would not recommend using bridge mode on it because it will dramatically reduce your performance and it will limit you to only 2 bands of Carrier Aggregation and will disable upload carrier aggregation and usually increase the latency by about 10ms. I dont know why its like this but it must be some weird Huawei thing.

If you did want to use another router and connect it to the B818 I would disable the B818's WIFI and Firewall and set up your other router on a static IP on the B818s Lan and set its IP as the DMZ server so your other router will be fully open to the WAN.

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#3196877 17-Feb-2024 21:05

perplu:

Read up about CGNAT - would be useful if I'm not on it as have security cameras, google home, shelly what are useful to connect to remotely. Found this site to check if ISP performs CGNAT and used all three methods - looks like it doesn't. So thats a plus. Can't post the link as some words aren't allowed by geekzone but if you google "How to check whether of not your ISP performs CGNAT in New Zealand" its the first thing that comes up.

One NZ cellular connections by default are CG-NAT, so odd that you say that the connection isn't using it. The only way you cannot be using CG-NAT is if you have a static public IP yet you seem clueless as to whether you have a public IP.

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