I live in a major city with cable internet everywhere along with fiber in some areas (unfortunately not mine), but I’ve had multiple instances of carriers’ salespeople knock on my door selling 5G home internet service.
The reason this doesn’t make sense to me is 5G will always have a much higher latency than any wired alternative — it really only makes sense to sell this stuff in rural areas without the infrastructure. What’s more is the most recent carrier has a reputation for extraordinary coverage but their network is CDMA so their network speed is one of the worst in the city.
Wouldn’t it make more sense to sell this stuff elsewhere?
Not even DMZ and using the DMZ device with external APs? It’s not great compared to just using the ISP device as a modem, but it’s better than nothing.
I’m sure something could be done on the LAN side. I know just enough about networking to know I don’t want to fool with it any more than I have to lol. The setup I have now works because the cable modem is just a modem/gateway. It’s not trying to be its own network.
But regardless of any efforts on my part, the AP is stuck with whatever black box software TMo is running. That WiFi signal is gonna be going 24/7. Can’t disable it, can’t define the IP space, can’t restrict what can connect to it, etc. Just not liking that idea.