Can the Velop be easily integrated into a AT&T U-verse setup either to act as the router or be placed into bridge mode? I'm primarily interested if the Velop can be placed into bridge mode which would make the Velop an access point. null

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DGPaul · Accepted Answer

I got it to work after much experimenting:

1. Reset all of your Velop Nodes by pushing the reset button for 10 seconds.

2. Run Setup for one node.

3. Once it is set up, go to your ATT gateway's (Mine is a BGW210) Home Network/IP Allocation tab.

4. Find you Velop node and click on allocate. 

5. Go to the Firewall/IP Passthrough Tab

6. Change Passthrough Mode to DHCPS-fixed.

7. Choose you Velop from the Device List. (It will populate the Manual Entry Field)

8. Set the Passthrough DHCP Lease. I set mine to the maximum allowed: 99:0:0:0

9. Add your other Velop nodes.

10. Turn off the gateway's wireless channels. You have to do each one separately.

John · Answer

I tried this and it worked well. Please note Velop now supports bridge mode so you can do it the reverse way and use ATT router. 

https://www.linksys.com/us/support-article?articleNum=243548

BillFromKC · Answer

Yes and no. You can put your Uverse Gateway into bridge mode and use the Velop that way, or you can leave the router in the Uverse gateway active and the Velop runs a second-layer network on top of it.

Keep in mind that anything plugged into the Uverse Gateway will not be seen by your WiFi network, so if you have any hardwired devices plugged into your Uverse Gateway, you'll need to also purchase a network switch (preferably a gigabit model). If your Uverse Gateway also functions as a print server or network-attached storage server, you'll need to find a solution to put those devices inside of your Velop network so they continue to function normally.

Dano · Answer

You place the att modem/router into bridge mode and the velops become the access points. They work really well.

Bill · Answer

My system is connected to Comcast so I assume it will work with ATT also. The Velop replaces your router and connects all 3 units like a bridge system (one name and one password) only better. No loss in speed at any of the units.

Answered by Bill 8 years ago

BillFromKC · Answer

It can act as a router but Velop doesn't currently support bridge mode. The best part about this is that the only thing you have to do to your Uverse Gateway is to disable its wifi.

Keep in mind, however, that if you have multiple things connected to your Uverse Gateway via ethernet, you'll need a switch - preferably a gigabit model - so you can connect those multiple devices to the main Velop node. The connection will go Uverse Gateway to Velop node to switch to everything else.

PhilGA · Answer

We have Xfinity Internet using our own modem/router combo. When setting up the VELOP system, any existing network configurations are completely separate from the VELOP mesh network. In fact, on initial node setup, all that's required is to have a physical Ethernet cable routed from the VELOP node to your existing modem/router Ethernet port (non-WAN). The Linksys app then has the VELOP node configure itself for Internet access.

Unless you really want to go the bridge route with your existing setup, the VELOP mesh network allows for its own wifi SSID setup without bothering anything currently existing.

I hope this helps!

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