Replacing the T3200M with a Linksys EA9500v2

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Hello Telus Community!

I'm a long time Telus user and our neighbourhood was recently upgraded to the PureFibre network so we happily switched over to the new fibre technology for OptikTV, ISP, and telephone.

Everything worked fine for about 2 weeks, but lately I've had to reset this dopey Actiontec T3200M router every night for the past four days because something just goes wrong. I've been reading on the forums now that the T3200M is a bit eccentric so I was looking into whether I could just replace the thing with my Linksys EA9500v2 router if I create a VLAN. I know I can bridge port 1 on the T3200M, but I'd rather just box up the T3200M if possible. It looks like it should work if I can find out my VLAN ID from Telus? I don't really need the CoAx for my two OptikTV Boxes as I have Cat6 pulled to every room in my house as well as to both TV areas from a 32 port switch in my AV rack. If I understood what I read correctly, once the IPTV VLAN is set up, I should be able to go from Fibre to ONT to EA9500 to Switch, and move the two OptikTV Cat6 cables from my switch directly to the EA9500?

Just wanted to check in and see if anyone else has tried this out yet with an EA9500v2 before I try to "brute force" this to work? I'd like to keep my AC5400 router up and running instead of switching to an AC1900 Netgear nighthawk or an Asus AC56U since whenever my son has an iPad party, we have 12 kids all going nuts on Fortnite in our living room and the Linksys is rock solid. If not, I can always go bridge mode and hope that the Actiontec doesn't just crap out one day - which seems highly likely.

Cheers!


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