Welcome to the Knowledge base of the common problems and settings that you may encounter with your Modems and Routers. Below is a list of all the routers information that we currently cover on RouterGuide.net.
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List of Detailed Modem and Router Guides
Motorola
Surfboard SBG6580
Surfboard SBG6782AC
Linksys
Linksys WRT54GL
Netgear
Netgear WNR2000
Asus
ASUS RT-N66U
ASUS RT-AC66U
ASUS RT-AC68U
Ubee
Ubee DVW32cb
you guys are awesome, giving explanations/answers to the real questions asked, being real and saving others time, money and frustration that feels like one could go insane. Thank you for your sound and honest guidance, its refreshing to not feel like your only being told benefits of products, whether you need them or not, just for the info to promote a sale. Also great in explaining the reasons why a product would possibly interfere with the connection were going for in the first place, by being too close to other devices/wifi modem or gateway or even essential appliances. I appreciate…
Nice website.. very resourcefull for broading my knowledge about router..
Btw im curious about tx rate to increasing wifi signal level. Do you have perspective or insight regarding that?
Thank you..
As simple as this site is, the information is very valuable for learning and setting up my router. Many thanks and keep it up!
Thank you!
Disabling Airtime Fairness stabilised the wifi for:
Spotify > Apple TV
Netgear Extender > TV receiver
High-speed laptops and phones were closer to the router, and were likely consuming more router resources before the change.
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Thank you for this great information, helped me a lot to improve my wifi performance
Andreas from Germany
Do you know if wifi extenders can be hardlined back to their home router? So they can use a wired connection to the home router instead of relying on a wifi connection. I want to wire the two because there’s no practical way for my router and extender to have a decent wifi connection with my home.
Thank you so much, this is the only website which managed to make me understand what a DMZ host is and how it’s different from port forwarding.
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I really enyoy the content you publish and I want to read more but that will take multiple readings so i’d like to receive email(s), etc so I can remember to stay in touch… thanks…
Can you recommend a network extender that has a LAN port. I need to extend a network to a detached garage that has It’s own electrical service, so I can’t use powerline or wireless to far. Thanks G.
THANKS – your post “How to adjust optimal WMM Settings” was helpful.
I’d like to see a similar write-up about other settings (such as MSDU/MPDU Aggregation).
I found the format of the WMM article helpful, how each setting has a “blanket” statement like “turn On for X, off for Y” followed by an explanation. There’s lots of information online but mostly either over-complicated/hardcore that I might not understand anyway, or else oversimplified and/or on a sketchy-looking sites offering things like “download our free tool to solve all your problems!”
If there’s one time that site reputation is important, it’s when seeking-out for home-network security advice!
Yep, just read several of your pages here and like others have found them HUGELY useful. Written in simple terms but containing crucial information. Just commenting here purely to add my support and thanks!
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Thank you for this detailed guide.
do I occasionally need to flash or update the firmware on my modem or does it do it automatically, and if I do need to do it manually, how do I go about doing that. I cant find any link on the modems web site. Thanks for any help
Thanks for the great guide and very clear explanation. Any chance that we could get info on a few other settings. For example: PMF (Protected Management Frame), Auto (Found on Synology router to automatically let devices choose between 5Ghz/2.4Ghz A/B/G/N/AC, key rotation, “Force 40MHz in 2.4Ghz band”, specific/real-world example of using a manual route in a home network, DNS settings (several routers let you use custom DNS in the internet and network settings, does using public DNS interfere with local DNS lookups and local DNS registrations?), VPN settings (would that route all local traffic through a paid VPN privacy service?. Why use IPv6 tunneling?
necesito cambiar el pasw de mi model SBG6580
Thanks for valuable information you have given.
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I have found your site and information to be very very useful. I was wondering if you could help and explain UPNP settings in further detail. My online experience has massively improved since altering the Advertising Period to 1440 mins and Advertising Time to Live to 128. What exactly do these do and why does it offer such an improvement? I have searched the internet extensively to no avail for information regarding these values and wondered if you can explain in more depth. I have had issues with Latency for a number of years and can’t believe the huge significant change since altering. Kind Regards Steven M
Hi Steven, Did you ever get an explanation to your question concerning UPNP settings? I would find this explanation very valuable as well. Would you mind posting the explanation, if it was PM’ed or emailed to you? If not, would one of the experts at routerguide mind providing the requested information? Thank you guys for the exceptional work that you do on this site!
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I already changed my modem is password 2 years ago, know the modem changed by it self to the old password!!
My question how I could fix that problem?
Access your router GUI again and customize your password again.
Thanks for valuable help.
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Need help with the dual 2.4G and 5 G setup, i am installing a RING.com and don’t need the dual set up, only need 2.4G. How do i get in touch with you for guidance?
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I’m currently working on my CCNA Wireless.. this gives a real ‘tires hitting the pavement’ sort of view.
Thanks.
My computer crashed, so was restored to factory settings. When I tried to reconnect to my wireless, I was unknowingly using the wrong password. So I went in using the original settings. The number on bottom of motorola. Now today when I tried to go in to change password, I can’t log in. It just keeps saying wrong password and user name. I tried using the old ones but it doesn’t work. If I reset yesterday, I don’t remember what it was. What should I do? I don’t want to keep the number , i t is too long and hard to remember.
Hello,
I’ve had the same issue with my network. Could you please post which model you have?
Thanks 🙂
Please could you explain what 20/40mhz co-exist is. What this does and how it affects a network”s performance.
Thank you.
P.S. Enjoyed reading your guides, helped me a lot, thanks