AT&T Router Passthrough Mode Setup Guide
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- Опубліковано 4 жов 2024
- So the AT&T Router is pretty awful, so let's enable passthrough mode in order to use our own router instead!
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I made a mistake in this video. By default, pfSense blocks traffic from its Lan to private addresses on the Wan side. If you can still connect to the ATT router, that's perfectly fine.
thank you, after settign up passthrough I can still see att router via 254 ip address=
@@albertroswell I was about to ask that question too.. in a way I would like to still access the '254' ATT GUI if my Pfsense box dies then I can still revert to the ATT device. Question, do I assign the WAN IP as static on the Pfsense WAN interface or does that get assigned through DCHP when bridged?
I have a Asus Router and this process still worked for me. Your instructions were very clear, concise-very simple and a lot easier to follow than other videos. Thank you for your help, friend. My family is finally enjoying the internet speeds and coverage that we desire.
Did you have 1000mb uverse?
@@hash_head indeed I do
so did you go to Asus login in your case? I just installed att fiber and trying to use my Asus router but confused. does WAN port on the Asus go to one of the ethernet or ONT port on the ATT gateway?
@@airuzair2424 **WAN port on the Asus goes to the ethernet of the ATT gateway** The ONT is for the ATT Fiber "Feed." Don't let that last sentence confuse you. the only thing you need to worry about is ensuring the ASUS WAN goes to the ETHERNET port on the ATT gateway since that's your question. I just watched the video again and everything is very very straight forward. watch, pause and follow instructions for each step and you'll be fine. you may have to reboot all the systems a few times to ensure it works (as he says in the video) but I did not. it worked first time for me.
@@traviswolfe215 Hey i have ONT fiber for my home. Therefore should the ONT connect go on the new router? Or the WAN PORT on the asus still connects to the ethernet on the gateway?
Just got At&t fiber and these instructions are solid!
I’ve been desperately needing this video. Thank you so much for making it.
Yeah that part about luck and rebooting a million times...made me think I was doing something wrong! Glad to see it wasn't just me having this issue! Aggghhh! Thank you for such a straight forward video too!
Thanks dude, I bought a TP link Archer AC5400 over a year ago and eventually stopped using it because of the double NAT and IP conflicts that would happen.
This is going to be my weekend project
It was the Firewall > Firewall Advance settings that I needed to turn off for my performance to work as it should. With the default settings having some of these settings set to 'On', my performance was sporadic and noticeably slow - 10 mbps. Seeing this at the 2:19 marked caused me to pause and test it again with my own firewall and bingo, its working. thanks!
Disable the wi-fi on the ATT router as well.
Otherwise, the signals will interfere with your third-party router.
I wish you showed all of this in conjunction with the hardwire setup. Would help newbies far better
Instructions worked! Thank you very much‼️ 👍😁👍
you saved me so much headache, thank you so much!
I am not sure what is going on. I did the recommended steps in the video. However, When I connect my PC into the lan port on my ASUS RT-AX86U, it still allows me to connect to the ATT 1.254 address. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thank you.
Fiber been around for some years now, companies like Netgear, Asus, etc. should have a fiber modem by now so we won't have to use the AT&T modem at all.
Unfortunately AT&T doesn’t allow 3rd modems to work when connected directly to the fiber line. It’s a way that AT&T can keep a $10 monthly rent charge.
@@BurninSeagulagree with you. FCC needs to investigate this as a monopoly.
@@fkarmadithey recently integrated the $10 equipment fee into the total monthly service charge.
On point! Worked like a charm for me!
The better way of accomplishing this with pfsense is using a true bypass method "pfatt/wpa supplicant mode" it's a bit complex but if anyone is up to the challenge of completely eliminating the AT&T GW then this is the way to go. My ATT GW has been unplugged and sitting in a closet for 6 months with no issues while pfsense handles all my traffic.
Is there a video on how do it your way?
Do you have a video, or at least a simplified explanation. Dosent have to be too simple but ya know.
@@jwbizy118 This cannot be done on any of ATT fiber routers as it requires it for login purposes still
Mr. Miller, this is a very good video. If I may, a couple of feedback comments - You seem to be in a hurry - if you could slow down a bit, reduce the mouse movements a bit, just slow down. You are educating a very mixed age group here on UA-cam and people, like me, are trying to learn and carry out what you are demonstrating - I appreciate your efforts here and I have used your video with a couple others to learn how to do the Passthrough Mode changes to my AT&T BGW210 modem/router. Thanks for your efforts.
UA-cam enables you to play the video in 0.75 speed if you want to slow it down a bit.
Why should you not be able to get to the AT&T router page from your PFSense? I used this video to setup DHCP-Fixed to my UDM Pro and it works! However I can still get to the AT&T router page behind the UDM Pro. Maybe because it's allowing traffic between networks? The AT&T router is on its own network and the UDM Pro is on its own, but its not vlanned.
i have the same!! anyone know why?
@@Saffatt same here. I followed all the steps but can still get to the at&t router page.
That’s fine. It’s a setting in pfsense that blocks it. If you can still access the att gateway, that’s perfectly fine. I misspoke in the video because I forgot pfsense is what’s blocking my connection to the att gateway.
@@MillerTechnicalServices oh ok thx for the quick response and best of all thx for the easy to follow video.
Did this for connecting to Dream Machine Pro. Wish AT&T would just let you directly connect SFP.
Shouldn't you do pass-through as you showed AND enable "cascaded router" mode as well from the same page I believe that you enable pass-through from? In the description on arris bgw210-700 router page it says to enable this setting if you are using another router for your network so maybe this is the fix necessary to get past the double NAT issues I see people here commenting as having after following videos instructions....which were great btw and much appreciated!
Where do you see this cascade router setting you mentioned? I don't see it in his video or anywhere in my router settings
Once the att modem is in passthrough mode, are you still able to use the ethernet ports? thanks
No
I Can still access the atts IP pass through page, what can I be doing wrong?
This is absolutely awesome video. Thank you, i have been looking everywhere. The only thing is I use a Google Mesh router, so i need to figure out all the other stuff you were talking about??? I will search some of the stuff I need to know
Should Packet Filters be DISABLED on the AT&T modem? It's under FIREWALL>PACKET FILTER.
Question--because you know way more about networking than I do. The ATT gateway does not have a true bridge mode; it is always going to be a router. If you turn off all the firewall features on the ATT, doesn't that leave it wide open to successful attacks and possible malware infection?
Idk if anybody will reply this late but how do I know if the passthrough worked? I went to att router interface and it says passthrough status on and then shows the WAN IP to my new router. So I assume it is sending but I am also able to still connect to att router via wifi. Just need to know how to double check it is working as it should and not double natting
The exact same thing here. I think that it means that the IP passthrough is not working and that we're still double NATing. Did you ever figure it out?
great video!
You save me bro, thank you so much !!!!!
This man is a genius my goodness
Is passthrough mode the same as bridge mode? I have a TP Link router that is connected to the AT&T router and it recommends to set up the AT&T router in bridge mode. Is this setup applicable to my scenario?
I have a BGW 320 and while the passthrough is working, NAT port forwarding is not. Anyone make this work? Suggestions?
Fml I keep trying step by step by I'm still able to see the the att login stuff when I out the ip 😥 so I'm assuming I'm not bypassing or doing it right
My Uverse router homepage looks nothing like that. I can't find a spot for to change to IP pasthrough and the router I plug in isn't being given a IP
I followed this and I'm having trouble with connecting Ethernet with bgw210 and a Asus rt-ax82u. Will I be able to use my Asus router for Ethernet instead of the att modem?
Having this exact problem. All was working till last week on pass through. Good god. Can’t get ATT to just work. Called ATT many times so useless.
Any thoughts ? Did so many unplug and reboots. And nada 👎
How did you get to that webpage to do those changes?
What if I don't have the pass-through option? I have the DMZ option but don't know how to do it in my case
Why is your att website different than mine? Mine don't offer all the firewall advanced settings
looking for a video that lets me block ads on my LG tv's. I have an AT&T router. do you have a video that may help me? Thanks
Thanks for this great video. I'm trying to help a buddy setup the Linksys EasyVPN in his office. He has an ATT BGW210 modem with a linksys router behind it. I think he has multiple public IP's on the ATT account. He has security cameras on the ATT BGW210 network so I don't want to mess up his remote viewing of those cameras. Does IP Passthrough allow me to only pass one of his public IP's to the secondary router (Linksys) where I have the EasyVPN service setup? On the ATT Modem, I don't see a way to only forward traffic on the VPN port to the Linksys router. Can you provide that info? Thank You!
Just one question - Will all the devices connected to my IP-Passthrough router will get the same public IP? If yes, then how can I overcome that? Any thoughts
No. Only the device (ie your new router) who’s MAC address you’ve passed through will get the public ip. Anything beyond that will receive its IP address from your new router.
Hey! Great video. I currently have fiber into my GBW 210 att router. I am totally following how to set up my TP link mesh Wi-Fi 6 system via ip passthrough mode via the GBW 210 - my only concern is will I still be able to somehow have a 2.4ghz network either via the 210 or somehow through a mesh System that offers 2.4 and 5 ghz.
I only ask this because I do have some items in my home that will only run on a 2.4 ghz network.
My att 210 router sucks so I need the mesh system to reach other points in my house. But I also need 2.4 network for other devices. Any thoughts you may have on this topic? Thanks!
Is there a reason you would leave the AP up on the ATT router if your mesh supports both bands?
the site won't let me type in the bar where the default server internal address goes...
What is the benefits of that new router? I know you said the AT&T router sucks but curious. I may do this. Open/forwarding ports is pretty tedious but curious if there is any other reasons you recommend that router you have. Thanks!
The ATT router doesn’t do anything like intrusion prevention (in the way that something like the UDM does). It also can’t do vlans and a bunch of other more advanced things. If you’re just a basic home user with a few ports open, you should be fine with the ATT router.
Edit: you also can’t change your dns server on the ATT router so you can’t use something like pihole without manually configuring it on every device you have connected to the router. Doing it on the router level is MUCH better.
@@MillerTechnicalServices Honestly the DNS stuff alone is worth getting another router. Would you recommend another router for a basic home user or this one? I am a basic home user and I currently use 1 Unifi AP Wifi6 for my wifi. Thanks!
Awesome video. Can we totally bypass the AT&T router if we installed something like a DecoXE75? You run use it as a router or access points.
Well that last bit is a bit confusing. This entire video is the answer to your first question. No we can’t , but this is what we can do.
@@MillerTechnicalServices I called AT&T and they said their router could be removed. I watched the entire video but its two years old. The Deco XE75 can be set up as a router and put in place of the existing ATT router, which is what my question was about. The Deco can also be connected to the ATT routed and put into access point mode. Not my favorite choice. I was trying to eliminate the ATT router all together.
@johns.8530 If this is the unit you have, you must use it. If you have another model, that may be different. But as for this one, att does not support you being able to auth yourself.
After doing passthrough , will any settings adjustments be done through the att router or my personal router?
Would I still be able to connect to my ATT gateway and use it as a switch
After setting IP Passthrough can't you still access the at&t router page to change other settings?
Yes you can. Im not sure why, but I misspoke in the video.
@@MillerTechnicalServices no worries really appreciate your videos thank you!!
Did you have to turn off the DHCP on the ATT gateway? I am currently fighting with it. It keeps giving a 192.168 number to my UDMP.
I have pass through setup but the ATT gateway isn’t doing the pass through. I am on my 20th reboot
Can I do this process with the TP link Deco mesh devices XE75?
connect to cisco any connect vpn using just the ATT router.
Nice finally.
im using a google nest wifi mesh setup and even when i followed all of these steps, connecting to my google wifi wirelessly, i can still access the att settings. I can also still connect to the wifi of the att modem and everything still wokrs. I am confused.
Same. I just switched over to AT&T from Spectrum as they just completed Fiber in my area.
I put the AT&T Router in IP Passthrough so my Google Router handles everything. I'm not sure what I may have done wrong but my Wi-Fi speeds are almost cut in half with this.
I had no problem with Spectrum as I had my own equipment. I wish I could have used my own modem and router with AT&T the same way I did with Spectrum. It's been a nightmare trying to get it set up the way I want
did you guys figure this out ?
I watched your video and a few others on doing this pass through using a Netgear Nighthawk R7000 router. When I connect my laptop directly to the BGW210-700, I get 850+ download speeds and 900+ upload, but when I connect my laptop to the Nighthawk, my download and upload speeds are about 230. I didn’t see anything very different in any of the videos I watched on this process. Any thoughts on why this is happening and how to fix? Thanks
I actually have the same router and am wondering the same thing
I'm trying to figure this out as well. The problem is also happening with other manufacturers. I wish I knew why my speeds were cut in half when connecting a 3rd party router
Big fan of your videos! I did this a long time ago BUT recently I did a Synology router test and it failed. After troubleshooting I found that tracert showed the vlan I was on then my AT&T router’s private ip. My UDM shows my public IP is my wan. How can this be? Is there a way to eliminate the AT&T private IP as I believe this is why the router test failed? Thanks!
Is the ATT router on the same subnet as your udm network?
@@MillerTechnicalServices Nope… EDIT: Based on your question I went ahead and changed the IP on the AT&T router to the UDM Pro gateway… Disaster. Had to full reset the AT&T router. 2nd EDIT: I watched your video again to see any discrepancies, I found one. The "Default Server Internal Address" on your AT&T box was populated with a private IP. On my AT&T box that field is greyed out and I am unable to edit.
Which AT&T modem model are you working with?
Is any of this necessary if I have att uverse? They don’t offer fiber in my area
4:04 Sick diagram, dude :D
Thank you. It took hours to do so professionally, but I finally got it up to my incredibly high standards 😂
I tried this a while back and couldn't get it to work. I was never able to see my router on the network - only the AT&T gateway. I didn't know that I should keep re-booting, though. I also didn't turn off the at&t firewall stuff so maybe that had something to do with it also.
you didn't show how to set the router wan or internet connection setting. Should it be DHCP or static?? If static, should wan ip and lan ip be on same or different subnets?
It should pretty much always be dhcp. If you’re asking the question, then you would have no reason to change the defaults
HELP Pls! I followed your setup on the passthrough but I can still reach my ATT router through my new router wifi
That is perfectly fine. The statement I provided is only accurate if running pfsense with private wan addresses blocked.
I'm about to pull the trigger on this passthrough w/ a TP Link router. I noticed you turned off all firewall stuff but I don't think you ran through that with the new router setup in this video. Does the new router have default firewall rules already?
Yes
Do I disable DHCP on second router?
I did all the steps, but I am still able to access my ATT page and not the new router page. Any ideas?
Does your new router share the same management ip as your new router?
Hello, can you do the same procedure if I have Static IP from my ISP or does it only work if it's set up for DHCP? Thanks for your help
I believe you would have to copy over your ip address and plug it into pfSense when setting up the Wan address.
I can still access the att router after following the guide. Double checked that I did not miss a step.
I am connected via ethernet to my tp link router
@@JLaw2756 me also, but i think, you have to still access the att router because is your DNS
You will likely have to change those dns settings in your new router to not use dhcp assigned ones. Also, if it works still, you’re probably fine.
@@MillerTechnicalServices Changed WAN DNS and left DHCP DNS blank, but still can access att router. Router is getting a public ip address before and after this change.
Thats not the modem they use here
Ummmm ok
Why would I want to do this? I have no idea what I’m talking.
Is it for security? Privacy? Or lower latency?
I’m not trying to be rude in any way when I say this but if you don’t understand the concept, you wouldn’t need it. But the idea is because the ATT router is so limiting, people want to use a different router and this video is about disabling the firewall on the ATT router and having it get out of the way as much as possible.
@@MillerTechnicalServices I don’t take it as rude at all. It’s way above my level haha. I’m trying to lower latency for video game lol. Dumb I know.
It’s all real interesting just about my skills. Thanks for the reply. Hope all is well.
im sorry but where the hell is the mac address located?? and why did you not show to disable the wifi from the att router
You need the MAC address of your specific router you are forwarding to. That’s up to the vendor where they put it. My line of thinking in the video was “hey I already am using another router but now I need the Wan IP” and had already disable Wi-Fi for myself.
Since I disabled all the firewall stuff for this, Do you think my network is vulnerable to any attack of some sorts?
If you're adding another router, then that 3rd party router would handle the firewall stuff for you. I wouldn't worry about it.
Is this something a beginner can/should handle?
If you can figure out how to use a different router, go for it. If you have never thought about your router, don't bother.
Great now do it with Static IPs provided by ATT while service your LAN devices to one of your blocks while maintaining a static IP on the Pfsense itself.
Get ready to beat your head against a wall
I hate Att - I have so many issues with them using my own router - they want to control everything I do and not let me use a different company
would the speed be the same on the wifi router or would there be a loss? or by some miracle... does it actually get faster?
It depends... (in basic terms) if the original router is not capable of scanning packets fast enough, just sending them to a better router and having that do the scanning and everything else can improve your speeds.
I have a att 320 (fiber). Why do passthrough? Could I just turn off ATT wifi on their route/modem (combo) device? Then just hook up my new router (as if i am just plugging it i to a regular modem)? Note: i just got an Asus 5700 ax86u
I mean you CANNN do that but really shouldn’t. It’s called double natting and it’s not good. If you need to open a port, you have to do it twice plus there are plenty of other issues like increased latency. They could also be on the same subnet so there could be overlapping ip addresses which would create issues. Really it’s best to just use pass through. It’s one of those things that takes 7 minutes now but will save you hours of troubleshooting later.
@@MillerTechnicalServices the follow up would be, can i create the passthrough then disable the ATT wifi to avoid wifi signals “competing/interfering” against each other?
Yes
I've been told that if you use the same IP/Subnet on your router - you should switch the default IP/Subnet of the AT&T modem/router to their alternative (172.x.x.x). Is this accurate?
Will this work if I use a amplifi alien router mesh system?
Yeah
I’m sorry if I’m late but I came here to tell you that I’ve been having a issue with my pass through settings were I’m trying to use my xr1000 and it works for a couple of hours I guess but after a couple hours the router turns off and it makes it to were I have no connection so if there is a solution to fix this let me know
Do you think getting a network switch and using that for all my devices will help fix this issue or is it not necessary please let me know because I’m thinking about picking one up and if I do pick one up can you give me any ideas on which one I should get I use atnt fiber 1gig
Another thing I have to say is will using a network switch make it to wear I can’t use my xr1000 features because that’s the main reason I started doing this method because of the incredible features it has
The issue I’m having is a endless reboot it seems like whatever I do I can’t fix this issue the router light is orange if you have a way I could fix this that would be greatly appreciated
Im having an issue were my default sever internal address isn't showing up
Plus it still allows me to access the att advanced settings without and lan cable
@@trentonhowe616 did you figure out what was causing this? I'm experiencing the same thing, but see no other comments that mention this.
Did you ever figure this out? Mine is also blank and I'm not sure which address should be entered here.
I just wish you were my grandson, Lol!
Isn't it better to use bridge mode?
They don’t have a bridge mode. That’s what this whole video is about.
"I'll fix it in post" lmao
I am still able to access/log into the bgw320 behind pfSense. However my pfsense WAN has received the public IP and I am connected to internet. What's happening?
Do you have a fix for double NAT?
That’s literally what this entire video is about…
@@MillerTechnicalServices after running multiple trace routes & rebooting gateway and routers, the double nat still exists. Second line on trace route points to att gateway. Thoughts? If you run a trace routes, what does yours look like?
i still have doublenat
I also have the double NAT problem. Nothing is getting past my BGW320. Anyone get past this?
@@Cerebus805 only thing i could conclude is you have to buy static ips from at&t and then activate bridge mode. but not even sure that would work either. i jus ended up updating my router(the model) to the newest one and sticking with that
This is not the best method, traffic is still going in and out of the router, you need a bypass
How do you disable wifi on it? I just got fiber with att and am trying to setup my orbi mesh system with it. Would i still want to disable the router feature on the att box?
Same here
Please let me know if you figured it out!
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att blows. They don't allow you to simply bridge their router. Only passthrough which slows down your connection (1gig down to 100m wifi) so they can see what you do and every device you have connected. and super high pings. pages load like it's dsl. At&t is the worst.
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I am just curious
If you are having a public ip address and not in same network.
from there I can set a 2 WAN network on my pfsense box?
WAN 1 > Public IP 216.XX.XX.XX
WAN 2 > Public IP 102.XXX.XX.XX
so I don't need to reconfigure from the AT & T modem?
Is that possible?
Thank you for sharing
I'm still able to access the gateway after enabling passthrough, idk what I did wrong
You didn’t do anything wrong. My pfsense is what was blocking connection to the router. If you can still access the att gateway, that’s perfectly normal. I apologize for the confusion
Did you have to turn off the DHCP on the ATT gateway? I am currently fighting with it. It keeps giving a 192.168 number to my UDMP.
I have pass through setup but the ATT gateway isn’t doing the pass through. I am on my 20th reboot
I didn’t disable anything I didn’t show in the video. Double check the new router to make sure it’s pulling an updated ip and not reusing the one it has been in the past
@@MillerTechnicalServices will do. Thanks!
@@timmaher7564 did you ever fix it. Same issue on a UDMP.
@@BoxTurtleGamingchannel multiple reboots and unplugging of the Att gateway. It finally took. There was no rhyme nor reason to it.