I'm a U-verse user (video and high-speed Internet) with a 2Wire 3800HGV-B home gateway. For TV, the 2Wire gateway drives 3 set-top boxes.
For Internet, I would like to use an Apple AirPort Extreme to drive Wi-Fi in the house instead of using the built-in Wi-Fi in the 2Wire gateway. The AirPort is in another room but I can easily run an Ethernet cable from the 2Wire to feed the Internet signal to the Airport.
I'm told I should turn off the Wi-Fi signal coming out of the 2Wire, and also turn off the "router" functionality in the 2Wire, and use the router functionality in the AirPort instead. I'm told a "router behind a router" causes performance issues.
Can anyone provide advice/instructions?
So in summary, I want the 2Wire gateway to continue to act as modem and to drive the TV set-top boxes, but I want the AirPort to be the WiFi router.
Thanks in advance for any advice.
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