Router advice please

[Grove12]

I've been a big fan of LTT for years now but never joined the forums until now cause i've kept things pretty simple. But i've herd Linus say time and time again join the forum to ask questions, as there many tech literate people here able to help.

So the real basic bones of my problem is that I have a router provided by my ISP and they have set it up so it's completely inaccessible by putting in my IP address into a url on any system in my home. This had made it so i can not set up port forwarding for say, minecraft server hosting, as an easy example. I've never bought a router or modem before and am not entirely sure what to buy or how to set it up in my home but the goal is for the normal router to stay as is and be the wifi access point of the house while i have a 2nd one that i can hard wire to and set up port forwarding and such. I don't know much on the hardware of this. What i do know is i had a friend who works for IBM as well as two other friends who are in computer science all try to access the ISP provided router and all fail cause it is totally locked out, inaccessable. 

Any help would be greatly appreciated as well as advice and i will try to be very quick to reply back to any questions if i need to provide more information. 

[Nakedpeanut]

What ISP and what router is it?

Typically if you search the combo off them you'll find a way to do it.

You'll need the ISP router to allow all traffic to your new router as the DMZ anyway. so if you don't have that access you'll need to bypass the ISP switch all together. 

 

There is way call the dumb switch bypass method (Used a lot by ATT clients), where you use an intermediary switch and clone the ISP routers mac onto you new router.

Allow the ISP router to create the connection then disconnect it and plug your router into the same switch port.

 

Problem is if you loose power or ISP resets your connection you have to do the process again. 

 

 

13 minutes ago, Grove12 said:

I've been a big fan of LTT for years now but never joined the forums until now cause i've kept things pretty simple. But i've herd Linus say time and time again join the forum to ask questions, as there many tech literate people here able to help.

So the real basic bones of my problem is that I have a router provided by my ISP and they have set it up so it's completely inaccessible by putting in my IP address into a url on any system in my home. This had made it so i can not set up port forwarding for say, minecraft server hosting, as an easy example. I've never bought a router or modem before and am not entirely sure what to buy or how to set it up in my home but the goal is for the normal router to stay as is and be the wifi access point of the house while i have a 2nd one that i can hard wire to and set up port forwarding and such. I don't know much on the hardware of this. What i do know is i had a friend who works for IBM as well as two other friends who are in computer science all try to access the ISP provided router and all fail cause it is totally locked out, inaccessable. 

Any help would be greatly appreciated as well as advice and i will try to be very quick to reply back to any questions if i need to provide more information. 

[Grove12]

I have an Arris router but i'm not entirely sure which model number it is and i'll have to figure that out and see if there is a way to actually access it (family is sleeping so avoiding a lot of noise for tonight) 
I suppose since there's only 4 options i could just try each too. 

[Donut417]

11 hours ago, Grove12 said:

I've been a big fan of LTT for years now but never joined the forums until now cause i've kept things pretty simple. But i've herd Linus say time and time again join the forum to ask questions, as there many tech literate people here able to help.

So the real basic bones of my problem is that I have a router provided by my ISP and they have set it up so it's completely inaccessible by putting in my IP address into a url on any system in my home. This had made it so i can not set up port forwarding for say, minecraft server hosting, as an easy example. I've never bought a router or modem before and am not entirely sure what to buy or how to set it up in my home but the goal is for the normal router to stay as is and be the wifi access point of the house while i have a 2nd one that i can hard wire to and set up port forwarding and such. I don't know much on the hardware of this. What i do know is i had a friend who works for IBM as well as two other friends who are in computer science all try to access the ISP provided router and all fail cause it is totally locked out, inaccessable. 

Any help would be greatly appreciated as well as advice and i will try to be very quick to reply back to any questions if i need to provide more information. 

What kind of internet do you have? What speed do you pay for? 

[Falcon1986]

11 hours ago, Grove12 said:

I have an Arris router but i'm not entirely sure which model number it is and i'll have to figure that out and see if there is a way to actually access it (family is sleeping so avoiding a lot of noise for tonight) 
I suppose since there's only 4 options i could just try each too. 

The model number should be written somewhere on the device. You need to find this out before proceeding in order to tell if it's a simple modem or a combination unit (internet gateway).

 

For a gateway you'll have to find some way to log in to the webUI to convert it to bridge mode. Various websites can provide generic/default login credentials. If you can't run it in bridge mode, then you'll have to run your router in bridge mode (or AP mode if you have a wireless router). Connecting 2 or more "routers" on the same network in the way you're attempting is going to cause conflicts.