I have AT&T U Verse internet and phone and was running AT&T's 2-Wire wireless gateway and router. I had purchase a western digital My Book Live network media storage drive and plugged it in with ethernet cable to the 2-Wire. I discovered that my file transfer speed were so slow it took hours to transfer photo files.... something had to be done! The My Book Live drive is compatible with gigabit routers and the 2-Wire was not that. Also the display of photos on my DirecTV screen (through Media Share) was painfully slow as well.
So I researched solutions and read all kinds of complicated set up stories for running another router behind the 2-Wire. I'm here to report that all of that reading and research was for nothing because what I ended up doing was buying a Netgear N600 Wireless Dual Band Gigabit Router (WNDR3700v4) for $89. This was capable of taking advantage of my laptop's ability to connect using 802.11n.
Setup was a breeze! All I did was connect the NetGear to the 2-Wire's LAN port and then disable wireless on the 2-Wire and conifgure the NetGear Router in DMZplus mode to allow all applications. Then released and renewed the WAN IP address.
Both router setup up with DHCP. The 2-Wire then functions as a modem and assigns the WAN IP address to the Netgear router.
After the router was setup to get WAN IP from 2-Wire I switched DMZ back to Maximum protection and it works fine and all my ports are stealth now.
So now I am able to connect wirelessly on the 5 Ghz band at up to 300mbps and my wired ethernet LAN ports all indicate gigabit (green light).... this has solved my file transfer speed issues and my media share speed. Now I only wait minutes instead of hours to transfer files. Problem solved and setup could not have been easier.
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