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The Sagemcom must be first, after then you can put whatever you want.

reply to griffner
Thanks ! And there would be no loss of speed ?

Should I put both routers on the same subnet ? Or disable the DHCP on the samgecom(But wouldnt that affect the IPTV?)

thanks again

reply to griffner
Negotiated the PPPoE on your router and the Sagemcom will automatically bridge mode.

reply to griffner
Okay : just to be sure : would I have to enter the PPPOE login details on the Sagemcom ?

reply to griffner
Leave the sagemcom as the tech installs it for the FibeTV service.
Dont factory reset it.
leave dhcp alone.
plug your asus rt-n16 internet(wan) into one of the yellow ports on the sagemcom(lan).
Enter your pppoe credentials into the asus and let it establish a pppoe session throuh the sagemcom. Your Asus router will recieve a public ip.

Some people will say to factory reset your sagemcom, but since you have fibetv, doing that will kill your tv. Some will also say to remove your credentials from the sagemcom but you shouldnt need to do that in this case - and if you do, removing the internet session from the sagemcom will likely cause your iTV apps to not work correctly as they require internet connectivity from the sagemcom.

wether or not you will experience slow downs in speed is another question. I have witnessed consumer routers that are unable to handle faster upload/download speeds - especially if they have SPI firewalls enabled. Yours is reviewed here

»www.smallnetbuilder.com/wireless···reviewed

I would suggest that if you factory default your asus and enter the pppoe and you get an unsatisfactory speed test result, you retry the test with firewalls disable.

Good luck
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You are correct that doing a factory reset or removing credentials from the sagemcom will disable the iTV apps, BUT it does not kill the TV. There is a separate internal logon for the IPTV service.

I would suggest that the wireless part of the sagemcom be turned off to remove unnecessary wireless activity when using a secondary wireless router.

reply to urbang33k

Don't know whats going on there.

I work with these modems every day and EVERY TIME i reset a modem with either the web interface or the reset button, there is no TV session active after reboot. It always requires having the TV session credentials re-entered, or manually setting the modem back to dhcp if its FTTH ( or apparently on a 7330 which we dont use for FibeTV in our area yet).

Also if I replace a modem or install a new service and place one, it always does 3 firmware updates and when it's finished, it always ends up with not active TV session at the end of the process.
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they've opened up a few 7330's in the Burlington area, I actually did another install on one couple days ago (440 maple)

reply to griffner
Thanks for the insight. I'm guessing I have 7330 (I'm in the east of Montreal, QC), since it is effectively FFTN (to the node) in my neighborhood (i.e. I connect to internet with a phone jack).

So here is my plan to make my networking plan work : after the tech installs fibeTV, I will plug in my other router to the samgecom LAN and authenticate PPPOE with my router. I will then disable the wireless on the sagemcom to avoid any interfering, making it a IPTV machine only, then, and hopefully placing it automatically in bridge mode. Should I place my other router on a different subnet than the sagemcom ? In that case, should I take care to not place it on the same subnet as the IPTV ?

thanks again !

Olivier

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reply to griffner
well. honestly it couldn't hurt to use a different subnet.

however, I dont think it would be necessary (someone correct me if I'm wrong). If you set your asus for pppoe first before plugging it into the sagemcom I think you would be ok. I am under the impression, the sagemcom would not be visible to any computers or your router, if your asus router is receiving a public ip. Your private network would end at your asus router in this case. That also means you wouldn't be able to access your sagemcoms web interface if you are connecting through your asus router.

I think the different subnets would only be advised if you were to set your asus to request its ip via dhcp, then it would receive a private 192.168.2.x ip from the sagemcom and you would be on double-NAT at that point.
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reply to griffner
Okay, thanks a lots for the input.

When you say "disable wireless" do you mean disabling the broadcast of the sagemcom SSID or removing the PPPOE login credentiels from the sagemcom altogether ?

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