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?

 

[aakshey]

I have tried double nat with VOIP. Didn’t really have any issue per say. A very small percentage of users do gaming.
Double NAT may not be by the book. But for 99% consumers it is way more convenient and doesn’t hurt them in any way.

 

[Dave]

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

People conveniently tend to define 'average user' as per their own requirements, so I'm not gonna get into a useless argument over what all apps (not just P2P ones) are affected and just how many use them. The point was that you simply made a general statement that having multiple NATs "makes no difference", as if it applied to all.

How badly? Very. Besides the impact on torrents (especially older and not so popular ones with fewer seeds/peers to begin with), gaming etc., it made a specific P2P network completely unusable for me as I got booted off due to the negative impact of not being able to forward ports. Personally I cannot wait till I am able to switch to another ISP that provides public IPs.

Double NAT may not be by the book. But for 99% consumers it is way more convenient and doesn’t hurt them in any way.

Ignoring the cooked-up statistics, just how is CGNAT "way more convenient" for users? In all my decades of not facing CGNAT before this I fail to see how I was being inconvenienced.

 

[philip]

Can anyone please help me in this. I am under double nat. I use torrenting for a lot of times . So what's the best configuration for getting connected to maximum peers in torrenting ?. Should I enable upnp ,what are the other issues when upnp is enabled. Or Should I do the manual port forwarding..

 

[GKannan]

@philip If you are using a separate router with ONT, set your ONT as bridge and configure PPPoE on your router and enable UPNP

 

[Dave]

Can anyone please help me in this. I am under double nat. I use torrenting for a lot of times . So what's the best configuration for getting connected to maximum peers in torrenting ?. Should I enable upnp ,what are the other issues when upnp is enabled. Or Should I do the manual port forwarding..

By the very definition of CGNAT, nothing we do at our end will make any difference at all. You can use UPnP, do manual port forwarding etc. all day long at home and it will be useless because the ports will still be closed at Jio's level.

 

[GKannan]

@Dave @philip seems to be using BSNL FTTH based on his profile info.

 

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[philip]

@Gokul Kannan yes I was using bsnl ftth but recently I changed isp and the current one doesn't support bridge mode by default so I am using my archer c6 as ap mode ,so I was little skeptical about the double nat situation ,especially with torrenting stuff and all.

 

[Temp Demp]

I have an ACT and Jio Fiber connections at home as I cannot afford any downtime because of the large number of smart devices and media centers.
I have an Asus RT-AC87 Router and the Jio Router .My Asus router is the "Master" and I treat the Jio Router as the "slave" In the router settings of Jio , I have disabled the WiFi options and only configured the WiFi settings in the Asus router.
The Asus routers have an option called "Dual Wan" in Settings / Wan . I have enabled it and have the ACT wire in the main "yellow" input RJ45 slot of the Asus Router and an ethernet cable from the Lan port of the Jio Router plugged into Lan port 1 of the Asus Router. You have various options in Dual Wan like Load Balance , Fail Over ..read the Asus manual / help for selecting your options. My system works without any problems , if ACT fails the Jio is there and vice versa . You can also enable only the Jio for a single broad band connection. All the WiFi devices at home use the Asus WiFi setup and the wired devices also uses the Asus DHCP configurations. I have not faced any clash of IP addresses. I have about 47 devices (wired and wireless) linked to the internet. I hope my long winded reply is of some help.

 

[Smh]

47 devices

 

[Dark_Nate]

People conveniently tend to define 'average user' as per their own requirements, so I'm not gonna get into a useless argument over what all apps (not just P2P ones) are affected and just how many use them. The point was that you simply made a general statement that having multiple NATs "makes no difference", as if it applied to all.

How badly? Very. Besides the impact on torrents (especially older and not so popular ones with fewer seeds/peers to begin with), gaming etc., it made a specific P2P network completely unusable for me as I got booted off due to the negative impact of not being able to forward ports. Personally I cannot wait till I am able to switch to another ISP that provides public IPs.


Ignoring the cooked-up statistics, just how is CGNAT "way more convenient" for users? In all my decades of not facing CGNAT before this I fail to see how I was being inconvenienced.

I'm glad there are other people who understands proper networking practices such as Dave.

I really am amazed by people and their networking practices. I've seen similar mentality with ICMPv6, they don't even know what it is and block it through and through call their network "IPv6 ready, the future is here"

Sometimes I wonder how the internet is even working with so much broken configuration.