Repeater vs Router / Wireless vs Wired

[pothi]

On most routers, there is no difference between LAN input and wan input. Only in some advanced routers, such as Mikrotik hap ac2, they have LAN only ports where we can choose any of them to be input or output depending on our needs. Basically, output from first should go to input of another, regarding of technical terms.

 

[VivekA]

@pothi, LAN to WAN connection will require the primary router and the secondary router to be on different ip segments. Hence, computers connected to the primary router will not be able to see those connected to the secondary router and vice versa. This may not be desirable in a home network.

 

[pothi]

Do you know of any router where there is a different wan input and LAN input?

 

[VivekA]

Yes, the wan port is clearly distinguishable from the lan ports on all the routers I have. In fact, I have never had a router where this was not so.

 

[pothi]

LAN input and wan input?

 

[VivekA]

Yes.

 

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[pothi]

What modem and modal is it?

 

[VivekA]

@pothi, you can look up virtually any router on the market and all of them will have a separate WAN port and multiple, numbered lan ports. The two routers I can see lying around - one is TP-Link Archer 1200 AC dual band, the other is Netgear WRG614v7.

 

[pothi]

I don't see any physical LAN input in TP-Link model. Of course, there is a wan input and a bunch of LAN ports. All LAN ports are output ports, from what I see.

I have never had a router where this was not so.

FYI, the OP has DIR 615 where there is only wan input. There is no physical LAN input in it. Never used D-Link models. But, most routers can work as repeater or as an access point, depending on our needs.

 

[VivekA]

@pothi, LAN ports here refer to ethernet/ RJ45 ports that work perfectly for lan input. The DIR 615 has 4 lan ports.