Region : UnitedKingdom

Model : Archer C7

Hardware Version : Not Clear

Firmware Version : 0.9.1 0.10 v0032.0 Build 140716 Rel.54909n

ISP : Sky

Hi there,

Firstly I love my new Archer C2!!!!! Have had two Cisco cable routers over the past month and none of them provide the same level of Bandwidth Control (for upstream) like the Archer C2!

My question: I have two routers on my network - A SKY SR102 with a fixed IP on the internet with a local address 192.168.2.2 facing my TP-LINK Archer C2 (DHCP) which has 192.168.1.254 on the LAN side as it does all the bandwidth control, DHCP server for the LAN etc. The SKY SR102 has 192.168.2.2 in its DMZ and I manually port forward using Archer C2. Previously I've had a couple of Cisco routers but none of them properly managed by upstream bandwidth properly for the streams I have and the Archer C2 does this very well.

Anyway, after changing to the Archer C2, when I check my logs, I noticed that any client IPs all showias 192.168.2.2 now. One thing I have noticed in the Archer C2 admin interface it does state that when you enable bandwidth control it disables Hardware NAT (but not Software NAT) however disabling bandwidth control doesn't fix this. Basically all of my incoming internet traffic is showing as 192.168.2.2 in any logs whereas with the Cisco's it shows the actual source IP address.

It's no big deal, just handy when I want to blacklist certain IP addresses - anybody have any ideas why this happens and if it can be configured to pass through the source IP address.