Our internet is out for a while so the neighbor is letting us use their wifi, but the signal is very weak. I could run ethernet from their router to an Airport express in my house, but would that cause problems with their network?
Would they need to change settings on their router to bridge mode, for example? I don't want to put them to that much trouble.
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In that case, one advantage of going with Bridge Mode, is your network clients (those connected to your AX), would not have to be performance-restricted with going with Router Mode. That is because, their data would not have to traverse through two NAT routers ... which is also known as "Double NAT." ... so you can expect to get a bit better overall Internet access performance with Bridge Mode.
In that case, one advantage of going with Bridge Mode, is your network clients (those connected to your AX), would not have to be performance-restricted with going with Router Mode. That is because, their data would not have to traverse through two NAT routers ... which is also known as "Double NAT." ... so you can expect to get a bit better overall Internet access performance with Bridge Mode.
If you can run Ethernet between routers, you have two choices that you can discuss with your neighbor:
Thank you, Tesserax, that's very helpful! Sounds like I'd want to set it up in "router" mode but probably doesn't make much difference since it's temporary and neither of us is worried about the other having access to our devices.
Thanks, Tesserax!
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