THG3000 modem mode

[Alvin01]

Hi,

Have recently had fibre Pro broadband installed with the THG3000 router. 

The WiFi is so bad that I'm looking for alternative routers to provide WiFi. 

Is there a way to set the THG3000 into modem only mode and then use a separate WiFi router?

Have tried a few routers I have around the place but none connect to the ethernet connection from the open rech fibre box.

Thanks for your help

[Anders1]

Yep. And tried turning off IPv6 but still same issue.

[Anders1]

Sorry, yep typo.

I'm hoping to set up both a local server and VPN, thus also DDNS. But maybe too difficult with my setup, so might just buy a DSL router instead and unplug the VF gateway (we're stuck on FTTC for a while yet sadly)...

[CrimsonLiar]

WireGuard VPN clients can often punch though double NAT, and there's nothing to stop you running a basic DDNS (with limited choice) client on the Vodafone side of the set-up.

[CrimsonLiar]

Thanks to the way Asus routers report their IP addresses I would read that the gateway is advertised to local devices as 192.168.0.1 with the WAN being (auto) set to 192.168.1.2
It's complicated because on the WAN setup page of the Asus router if you were to set up the "Get the WAN IP" manually, then you'd set this to 192.168.1.2 and clients would still be told 192.168.0.1
This discrepancy of language has been around ever since Asus started making routers!