Bridge or Router

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I have a SkyFi internet fixed wireless solution and need to know if the Tenda AC1200 device is a router or a bridge. It is labelled Smart Dual-Band WiFi Router but I suspect that it is acting as a bridge.
How can I confirm what service the Tenda is delivering, either bridge or router?
 
Look at the back of the tenda and if the cable to the external wireless device is running from the WAN port its doing the routing, probably PPPoE, and if plugged in to the LAN port the wireless device is then doing the routing.

Weird they dont give you access to the Tenda so you cant even change the SSID if you want.
 
Thank you. Its plugged into the WAN port.
This, to my thinking, means that something in the Tenda does the addressing and linking to Skyfi and therefore if I switched the Tenda for another device I would loose my Skyfi connection.
Please correct me if I am wrong.
 
Correct the username and password for authentication is likely PPPoE on the Tenda. However Skyfi I am sure would just give you that if you asked so you can change devices. You may even have it already to log in to a portal to check bandwidth usage for example. Am sure the ISP will assist you if you ask.
 
OK Let us put it this way.
There are lots of articles on the web telling how to turn your Raspberry Pi into a router and I have read a good percentage of them and they all tell you how your internal network can connect to the Raspberry with DNS and NAT etc etc but not one of them explain what is needed to connect to your ISP. All of them have an Ethernet cable connection to a modem/router/whatever.
This then tells me that all they are telling me is how to setup a bridge which I do not need.
 
The reason I require this is that I want to run my server on this connection but no matter how many times I tell Skyfi this they have not come to the party.
They have actually charged me twice for so called support which never materialised.
I must say that customer support is not a great component of their tech dept so now I want to do it myself.
 
Ok you want to have the server accessible from the Internet so you need to ask Skyfi for the username and password to enable the Pi to get Internet access. Am again assuming Skyfi does not give you a static IP so you will also need to setup dynamic DNS. Google that if you dont know what it is.

Pity is the Tenda can actually do all that for you if you just had access to it. Depending on what service you want to have the server provide over the Internet you will need to forward the required port. So if it was FTP you send the external port 21 to the server directly. Kind of understand why the ISP does not want to get involved but its a pity they dont just let you play with the router they provide. Again maybe they worried you mess it up and they have to provide additional support. Giving you the access details (username and password) is kind of default these days.
 
The basic problem is that the Tenda I have been supplied with will not store port forwarding. I can setup port forwarding as much as I like but next time I check most if not all of what I set is gone.
There is also no SAVE button on the screen where port forwarding is set up. All I can do is exit.
You talk about "the username and password to enable the Pi to get Internet access." Is this different to the username and password to access the Tenda?
BTW I can handle dynamic DNS.
 
yes that is your Broadband PPPOE username and password from your ISP. why not just purchase a better brand of broadband wireless router than trying to set up a Rasberry PI?
 
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