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Hey, this is Brian from DisableMyCable.com and today I'm going to show you how to
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connect your own Wi-Fi router to the Verizon 5G home internet gateway. Okay, so
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the reason you'd want to do this is probably to get a better Wi-Fi strength
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in your home. So I live in a two-story home and I get good Wi-Fi coverage
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using the built-in router, but my external ring cameras were getting a
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weak Wi-Fi signal. So that's why I opted to hook my own Wi-Fi router to the unit. Now, if you live
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in a small apartment, a single bedroom, or even a two-bedroom apartment, you can probably just use
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the onboard Wi-Fi router that comes built into the unit. There's no need to do all this
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But if you live in a bigger home, maybe it's several stories, then you might want to hook up
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your own Wi router to your 5G gateway Now to do that you could simply turn off 2 and 5 gigahertz Wi on the gateway and simply plug in your own router and use it that way That what I did for
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several months and it worked fine for all of my regular internet access. But there is an issue
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that can come up in certain applications. Like for me, when I use my Tableau DVR and tried to view
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my recordings away from home, it wouldn't let me view those. It wouldn't let me use my Tableau
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when I was away from home. And that's because of something called the double NAT issue
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and it happens when you plug one router into another. And so for a while, I just lived with
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that. And there was some confusion on my part because I thought I'd read online that the
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pass-through mode on the router wasn't working for some people and there were problems with it
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Well, I now know that it works fine and I'm using it right now and it's working great and I can use my Tableau fine
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So the preferred method is to put your Verizon 5G gateway in pass mode if you want to plug in an external Wi router into it
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And to do that, it's pretty easy. And it's best to do it with a device that has an Ethernet port so that you can plug directly into the unit
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So if you have a laptop with Ethernet, plug it into the LAN 1 port of the gateway
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then go to the web interface and go to network LAN and find the section under Advanced
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find IP pass-through, then click Configure and turn that on. Now, when you do that
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it will shut off Wi-Fi. So make sure you are connected by Ethernet and not by Wi-Fi
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from the unit itself. And when I did that, it took about two minutes
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to save on my system, so it might take a long time. You see a spinner and that might go for a long time Don worry it is working and it will save And this procedure applies to the ASK model If you look under your unit you see the model number either starts with ASK or ARC
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ARC also has a setting like this. It might be in a different place. Just look for the pass-through or IP pass-through setting
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So once you've done that, you can plug your Wi-Fi router into the LAN 2 port
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and it should start working as long as your Wi-Fi router is set up with your Wi-Fi passwords and so
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forth. So it's pretty simple. It should just work. So just one caveat. Once you have your router
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working with your gateway, go ahead and unplug your laptop from the LAN1 port because that port
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will no longer supply internet access. You can still use it to access the control panel of your
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gateway, but it's not going to be any good for internet. So unplug your device from that and
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plug it into your router. And if this video was helpful to you, please like it and subscribe
