1) So it worked well for you? I just got the Asus RT AC66U router to install behind the Uverse 2wire 3800 that we are forced to rent permanently from AT&T. Are speeds going to make a noticeable difference?
2) Did you end up connecting the tv receiver to the 2wire or the new router?
3) If you did Option 2, why don't you get a switch instead of a router behind router?
If you have time, can you write up your process here?
It's working well yes. I originally planned (and still might tinker around later) to set this up as my main router. ATT router as far as I know cant be bridged to make it just a "modem only." Right now, i'm on my laptop across the house. I'm streaming vids off the internet and off my networked drive at much faster speeds. No lag at all this morning so far. Very pleased.
2) I left the ATT TV Receiver plugged into the 2Wire
3) I did option 2 (the access point) because it's the only way i could get it to work at all. When I tried setting it up as a router, it knocked out internet and wifi. TV's where never effected because I never removed that lil black box out of the 2wire.
As far as a write up to make it work as an access point here's what I did:
1. Open box enjoy new purchase and cross fingers it'll work.
2. Plug new Asus router to ethernet on laptop (or pc) into the LAN 1 port on Asus router.
3. Go to 192.168.1.1 on internet window from connected laptop.
4. admin / admin is the login and password
5. Run the connection wizard. It won't find the internet. So it gives an option to manually configure.
6. Create your new Asus router admin and password; create new wifi name and password
7. In the Administrator Settings on the Asus admin page, under "Operation" change from router to Access Point. Click Apply.
8. The Router will reboot then tell you to access it from your wifi, so you can unplug your directly connected ethernet cable.
9. Once your able to login from your wifi - from phone or laptop it will show a message that your subnet has changed from 192.168.1.1 to 192.168.1.91.
10. You can now plug your Asus Router into LAN PORT 1 of your ATT Router. (i read a few times that it works on LAN1 only back of the ATT Router)
11. You can access your router at the new Router from any internet window. Wifi should be working and you can connect your pc's, xbox, etc to your Asus now to confirm their getting the internet.
12. If your machines cannot access the internet - plug the ATT Router (from port 1) into the WAN port of the Asus router. This might help. I can plug the ATT router into either a LAN port or the WAN port on the Asus and it works fine.
TIP: I never had to mess with any settings on the ATT Router - I never enabled "detect router behind router" from the settings > event notifications on the 2wire.
I hope this helps - this took about and hour to just mess around with before i noticed I had it working. Since I just set it up last night, it's still pretty fresh in my head. Let me know if your getting stuck and I'll try to help.