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You can add ANY wifi router to ANY ethernet network. You absolutely are not required to use a wifi device that your ISP gives you. The WAN side is under their c
by NDizzle 11y ago
You can add ANY wifi router to ANY ethernet network. You absolutely are not required to use a wifi device that your ISP gives you. The WAN side is under their control, but you can do anything you want on your side.
- kmm 11y agoBut then you have an extra hop.
- sbierwagen 11y agoSure, but that's only going to add 0.5-1ms of latency.
- lliama 11y agoNot even; even with low perf hardware you're looking at 0.1ms on the high side.
- colejohnson66 11y agoYou do understand that the extra hop's increase in ping is negligible. If it was a problem, we wouldn't be able to have 10 gig ethernet.
- qb45 11y agoI think they may be talking about evil ISPs who change TTL of all your incoming IP packets to 1 so that any router you may run would drop them. However, this is not an issue with "dumb" ethernet-WiFi bridges.
- Hydraulix989 11y agoHm, is this something that can be shaped?
- qb45 11y agoNot sure what you mean. Obviously it is possible to increase the TTL of incoming traffic if that's what you wanted to know. Linux iptables can do that, IIRC BSD pf too, and some consumer routers even have an option in the GUI.
- Hydraulix989 11y agoYou answered my question!
- Hydraulix989 11y agoYou're also behind two NATS and the wireless signals interfere.
- makomk 11y agoOf course, then you've just added a second point of failure - their crappy router can still bring down your connection, but now so can the additional router you've added.
- anotheryou 11y agoBeen there :) It's not the wifi itself, it's the internet connection that goes down. So this did not help...