Netgear AX1800 Router — Compatibility with Skinny Fibre & Correct Settings?

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Teelo

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#3253574 26-Jun-2024 18:46

Similar issue, responding incase anyone searches for "Bigpipe" and my router, heres how I solved it.

D-Link EAGLE PRO AI R15 (AX1500) WiFi 6 Smart Mesh Router

Solved by turning off VLAN. It wasn't obvious how to find that setting, though! Buried away in Internet settings under a category that looks, at first, to already be disabled.

heavenlywild

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#3253579 26-Jun-2024 18:58

How have you found the WiFi range on the Netgear AX1800 Wifi 6 router?

techn0vic3

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#3253658 26-Jun-2024 20:50

heavenlywild:
How have you found the WiFi range on the Netgear AX1800 Wifi 6 router?

Surprisingly good! I'm really happy with the range. Full signal across the whole house — 1 level home, 2 bedrooms.

Haven't intentionally tested the range but I found out I still get 3/4 bars of WiFi at my mailbox which is ~50m away from the router (as the crow flies, passing through 1 exterior wall). Signal was strong and consistent at that distance, I was on a video call to my mum at the time with 0 issues.

I paid $175 for the modem (not on special) and was worried it would suck as most routers seem a lot more expensive than that nowadays, but I really rate it. No regrets, feel like I got good bang for buck.

farcus

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#3253689 27-Jun-2024 00:36

you know you could have avoided all the headache if you had just purchased the skinny smart modem instead. It's probably a better modem as well. (and would have been free on a 12 month plan)

techn0vic3

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#3253691 27-Jun-2024 01:13

farcus:
you know you could have avoided all the headache if you had just purchased the skinny smart modem instead. It's probably a better modem as well. (and would have been free on a 12 month plan)

It was only a headache because I didn't know Skinny don't support IPv6 so the advice Netgear was giving me was pointless + I didn't have that key info to help guide them. As soon as the lovely people in this thread helped me out with that I managed to sort it quickly!

I did know about the option to get a Skinny modem on a 12 month plan. Perhaps it may have been a better one but I wanted to BYO to get a $5/month discount on my internet bill. I bought my router with a gift card so both options were "free" for me in a sense, just went with what could save me some money. I'm a solo parent so try to budget wisely, esp. in this economy haha! :)

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