Posted: Sat May 25, 2019 18:27 Post subject: How to Limit Port Speed.
I just purchased a WRT1900AC and successfully flashed it with DDWRT 39827. I am replacing an old WRT54GL that was also flashed with DDWRT.
Connected to the WAN port (of the WRT54GL) was a SurfBeam 2 Satellite Modem. I was able to get an IP address from the modem when DDWRT was set to Auto DHCP on the WRT54GL.
I have now replaced the WRT54GL with the WRT1900AC with the exact same configuration. However, the auto DHCP (on the WAN port) receives and IP address of 0.0.0.0.
I have tried multiple devices and it seems that the only devices that work with the SurfBeam2 are the ones that have 100Mbps ports.
I want to rule out that the 1GB interface is causing the issue on the WRT1900AC. My question is, can I limit the WAN port to 100Mbps on the WRT1900AC?
If so, how do I go about doing it? I could not find anything at the moment on how to do so.
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Posted: Sat May 25, 2019 19:17 Post subject:
There isn't a real option in the settings i think.
But in the time between other responses:
- sometimes the ISP only supplies IP# every eg hour.
Toggling with devices will not bypass this. It's a matter of waiting.
- sometimes shutting down the IPS modem triggers this process and speeds things up. Did you unplug the power of this modem, waited eg 10 minutes and powered it up?
- sometimes mac addresses are set at the modem of the ISP enabling the connection. But i personally never encountered this myself.
Think all ports will negotiate the speed between them.
Since you have a WRT54G, you can turn it into a 10/100Mbps switch and place this between the modem and the wan port of the wrt1900ac. This should limit the connection to 100Mbps max. Connect the wrt1900ac wan port to a lan port of the switch, and connect the modem lan port to another lan port of the switch.
There are various tutorials on the web on how to turn the wrt56g into a switch. The basic important steps:
-backup your wrt54g config into your computer
-change the wrt54g lan IP into something that doesn't conflict with your wrt1900ac ip.
-disable the dhcp service in wrt54g
-don't plug anything to the wan port of wrt54g _________________
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It's just a temporary setup, just to prove your theory that the wan only works with 100Mbps. Once you have proved/disproved that, you can put the wrt54g back to original config.
Another way to force the link to 100Mbps max is that gigabit speed need all 4 twisted pairs of the cable. If you cut one of the pairs at the side, you will be left with less than 4 pairs and it won't negotiate to 1Gbps. From the pinouts, you can get a cheap cat 5 cable and cut wires connected to pins7&8.
I was able to clip an Ethernet cord based on the diagram but to no avail. All devices that i connected with that clipped cable connected properly at 100mbps. However, when i connect my modem to my wrt1900ac with the modified cable, i still get 0.0.0.0.
Back to my original thought, can you limit the wan port speed on the wrt1900sac router running ddwrt?
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Posted: Wed Aug 07, 2019 20:24 Post subject:
Nobody has addressed the obvious. Your satellite provider's modem is looking for the WAN mac address of your WRT54*. You're not going to get an IP until you fix that. The ethernet ports should auto-negotiate.
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Posted: Wed Aug 07, 2019 23:57 Post subject:
kernel-panic69 wrote:
Nobody has addressed the obvious. Your satellite provider's modem is looking for the WAN mac address of your WRT54*. You're not going to get an IP until you fix that. The ethernet ports should auto-negotiate.
I use a DSL connection but I tried testing with a 54G, 1900 V1, and my 3200. Although I as always told that I needed to have the modem in passthrough with DHCP off, I turned the DHCP back on and disabled passthrough, set the Setup page for Automatic Configuration - DHCP.
And to my surprise all three routers connected without problem.
So, I have to agree with the note that the problem is associated with the Modem and you will need to contact the supplier. From what I have read about the modem, it is very restrictive in the number of IP's it can assign and this may be your basic problem. Contact your provider to get this resolved. _________________ Starlink & DSL -> TPLink TL-R470T+
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Posted: Thu Aug 08, 2019 4:26 Post subject:
d0ug wrote:
kernel-panic69 wrote:
Nobody has addressed the obvious. Your satellite provider's modem is looking for the WAN mac address of your WRT54*. You're not going to get an IP until you fix that. The ethernet ports should auto-negotiate.
I kinda didn't think it was the obvious with this statement
metalguy wrote:
I have tried multiple devices and it seems that the only devices that work with the SurfBeam2 are the ones that have 100Mbps ports.
Then there is a router firmware problem. The WAN port should auto-negotiate in DD-WRT, and I haven't seen a 100baseT ethernet port on any kind of modem in a while, but it should force whatever is connected to it to 100baseT. If not, there is a larger problem with a driver or something.... I guess I should've said that in the other post
Nobody has addressed the obvious. Your satellite provider's modem is looking for the WAN mac address of your WRT54*. You're not going to get an IP until you fix that. The ethernet ports should auto-negotiate.
I have tried multiple laptops, multiple Linksys routers, etc, and the only one that does not connect is the WRT1900AC
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Posted: Fri Aug 09, 2019 7:32 Post subject:
The only other thing I can suggest is using a fast ethernet switch (10/100) in between, but I don't see why you'd need to. I take it that the switch config page has no effect on the WAN port, either.... (unchecking auto-negotiate, gigabit, full speed, full duplex... well, maybe not full duplex....)....