Can I completely replace Reliance Jio Fiber Router with my own router?

[Arc]

Jio Fiber Router is probably one of the worst routers I've seen till date. Nothing's organized and the interface is very unintuitive. Moreover a lot of settings are poorly designed.

I currently own an Asus RT-AC58U router (gigabit), and it is simply one of the best routers I own. (Link:RT-AC58U | Networking | ASUS India)
It has all the features I want at a place I'd like it to be. Moreover the router's USB storage functionality also works unlike that of Jio Router.

So I just wanted to ask if it is possible to discard off the Jio Router and instead use my Asus Router instead. I understand that my router does not seem to have a "fiber port ", (the one connected on Jio Router is different from the traditional ethernet port). So is there some kind of repeater device I can use?

 

[philip]

So that means torrent speeds will be affected?

 

[pothi]

Unlikely. Speeds don’t get affected by NAT. With NAT, either something works or doesn’t work. There will never be slowdown.

 

[Smh]

@pothi @philip Indirectly NAT does effect P2P apps speed, as you will connect with less peers/seeder as compared to open port.

 

[Smh]

A little off topic here. Does the double Nat scenario will increase the latency for the end devices?

negligible .

It still doesn’t matter. You can have as many NATs as you want. Makes no difference.

It does causes issues for anything that requires open port.

 

[philip]

@pothi @philip Indirectly NAT does effect P2P apps speed, as you will connect with less peers/seeder as compared to open port.

I had a similar doubt like that when I tried download a torrent it was connecting to very less peers as I was simultaneously downloading the same torrent with a secondary connection which gets connected to more peers than the first ..

 

[philip]

@pothi @philip Indirectly NAT does effect P2P apps speed, as you will connect with less peers/seeder as compared to open port.

Is there any workaround for it in the double nat situation.., does enabling upnp can solve it or should I do the manual port forwarding

 

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[kanansrin]

@philip the portforwading on the jiofiber ont doesnt work

 

[Dark_Nate]

That is how I have used Internet all over the world for decades without any issues.Simple and easy. You can turn off WiFi on Jio router.

You can.

1. Connect LAN port of Jio to your router’s WAN port. Double nat is there, but rarely an issue.

That's very bad networking practice. Why would you want Double/Triple NAT? The whole objective is to have clear open NAT.

Some people's networking practice amaze me.

What's next? Block ICMPv6?

 

[aakshey]

Certainly has a negative effect on many P2P apps.

How many average consumers use such apps? And how badly do they practically impact you?

 

[Dark_Nate]

@aakshey Gaming, VoIP etc are traffic that would be impacted by Double NAT.

Also which networking school encourages users to implement Double NAT?

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