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Originally Posted by Psychotext
Seems like this might be the right place to ask rather than starting a new thread. I've been interested in upgrading to 100mb for some time now but I have a reasonably complex network and some of the talk on the superhub has been putting me off quite a bit.
Have a DIR-655 linked to a 6 port gigabit Ethernet switch at the moment (which in turn links to various PCs, TV, consoles, a printer). The DIR-655 is set-up to use wireless N which in is being connected to by a DD-WRT flashed linksys router in bridge mode (which enables some other Ethernet connected items in a different part of the house).
The DIR-655 has some static IPs set up for my LAN, I am using dynamic dns, some limited port forwarding and VPN functionality.
...is any of this going to be a problem? I've read around but I can't seem to find details on the specific failings of the superhub that are causing people grief. Is it possible to dumb down the superhub and leave the rest of my network pretty much intact?
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Dynamic DNS - no, at least I haven't found any means of doing it
Port forwarding - yes
VPN passthrough only, you can't terminate VPN connections on the Superhub
It has four ethernet ports, if you need more then you can simply connect your existing switch to one of them.
The wireless range is a bit suspect (at least according to some users), I don't see why you shouldn't be able to use your existing Linksys as a wireless extender though.
As far as dumbing down is concerned, what you really want is to use the SuperHub in bridge mode so that it just acts as a modem (albeit a rather large and awkward to position modem). Unfortunately that functionality isn't there yet (supposed to be available in a firmware update). What you can do (and what I and many other users have done) is to switch off as many features of the SuperHub as you can (wireless etc.) and set it up so that your DIR-655's WAN port is connected to one of the SuperHub's LAN ports and the SuperHub configured so that the DIR-655 is in the SuperHub's DMZ. Depending on your LAN's IP settings you may need to do a bit of reconfiguring of the DIR-655.
The idea is that all inbound traffic hits the SuperHub which simply forwards it all to the DMZ device, i.e your 655 which then does all the routing functions. Naturally you are double-natting but it does all seem to work ok. There is a nice set of instructions for doing this somewhere, and it's quite easy to do.
Good luck