AT&T Router Passthrough Mode Setup Guide 

I made a mistake in this video. By default, pfSense blocks traffic from its Lan to private addresses on the Wan side. If you can still connect to the ATT router, that's perfectly fine.

I’ve been desperately needing this video. Thank you so much for making it.

I have a Asus Router and this process still worked for me. Your instructions were very clear, concise-very simple and a lot easier to follow than other videos. Thank you for your help, friend. My family is finally enjoying the internet speeds and coverage that we desire.

Yeah that part about luck and rebooting a million times...made me think I was doing something wrong! Glad to see it wasn't just me having this issue! Aggghhh! Thank you for such a straight forward video too!

It was the Firewall > Firewall Advance settings that I needed to turn off for my performance to work as it should. With the default settings having some of these settings set to 'On', my performance was sporadic and noticeably slow - 10 mbps. Seeing this at the 2:19 marked caused me to pause and test it again with my own firewall and bingo, its working. thanks!

Instructions worked! Thank you very much‼️ 👍😁👍

On point! Worked like a charm for me!

you saved me so much headache, thank you so much!

You save me bro, thank you so much !!!!!

Thanks dude, I bought a TP link Archer AC5400 over a year ago and eventually stopped using it because of the double NAT and IP conflicts that would happen. This is going to be my weekend project

This is absolutely awesome video. Thank you, i have been looking everywhere. The only thing is I use a Google Mesh router, so i need to figure out all the other stuff you were talking about??? I will search some of the stuff I need to know

great video!

Did you have to turn off the DHCP on the ATT gateway? I am currently fighting with it. It keeps giving a 192.168 number to my UDMP. I have pass through setup but the ATT gateway isn’t doing the pass through. I am on my 20th reboot

I am not sure what is going on. I did the recommended steps in the video. However, When I connect my PC into the lan port on my ASUS RT-AX86U, it still allows me to connect to the ATT 1.254 address. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thank you.

I followed this and I'm having trouble with connecting Ethernet with bgw210 and a Asus rt-ax82u. Will I be able to use my Asus router for Ethernet instead of the att modem?

After doing passthrough , will any settings adjustments be done through the att router or my personal router?

Idk if anybody will reply this late but how do I know if the passthrough worked? I went to att router interface and it says passthrough status on and then shows the WAN IP to my new router. So I assume it is sending but I am also able to still connect to att router via wifi. Just need to know how to double check it is working as it should and not double natting

The better way of accomplishing this with pfsense is using a true bypass method "pfatt/wpa supplicant mode" it's a bit complex but if anyone is up to the challenge of completely eliminating the AT&T GW then this is the way to go. My ATT GW has been unplugged and sitting in a closet for 6 months with no issues while pfsense handles all my traffic.

Once the att modem is in passthrough mode, are you still able to use the ethernet ports? thanks

Thanks for this great video. I'm trying to help a buddy setup the Linksys EasyVPN in his office. He has an ATT BGW210 modem with a linksys router behind it. I think he has multiple public IP's on the ATT account. He has security cameras on the ATT BGW210 network so I don't want to mess up his remote viewing of those cameras. Does IP Passthrough allow me to only pass one of his public IP's to the secondary router (Linksys) where I have the EasyVPN service setup? On the ATT Modem, I don't see a way to only forward traffic on the VPN port to the Linksys router. Can you provide that info? Thank You!

Fml I keep trying step by step by I'm still able to see the the att login stuff when I out the ip 😥 so I'm assuming I'm not bypassing or doing it right

Fiber been around for some years now, companies like Netgear, Asus, etc. should have a fiber modem by now so we won't have to use the AT&T modem at all.

Did this for connecting to Dream Machine Pro. Wish AT&T would just let you directly connect SFP.

Is any of this necessary if I have att uverse? They don’t offer fiber in my area

Would I still be able to connect to my ATT gateway and use it as a switch

Which AT&T modem model are you working with?

Just one question - Will all the devices connected to my IP-Passthrough router will get the same public IP? If yes, then how can I overcome that? Any thoughts

Can I do this process with the TP link Deco mesh devices XE75?

Hey! Great video. I currently have fiber into my GBW 210 att router. I am totally following how to set up my TP link mesh Wi-Fi 6 system via ip passthrough mode via the GBW 210 - my only concern is will I still be able to somehow have a 2.4ghz network either via the 210 or somehow through a mesh System that offers 2.4 and 5 ghz. I only ask this because I do have some items in my home that will only run on a 2.4 ghz network. My att 210 router sucks so I need the mesh system to reach other points in my house. But I also need 2.4 network for other devices. Any thoughts you may have on this topic? Thanks!

What if I don't have the pass-through option? I have the DMZ option but don't know how to do it in my case

looking for a video that lets me block ads on my LG tv's. I have an AT&T router. do you have a video that may help me? Thanks

I Can still access the atts IP pass through page, what can I be doing wrong?

Do you have any instructions for the new AT&T Interface. Once I put in the IP address the new interface does not look like yours?

Hello, can you do the same procedure if I have Static IP from my ISP or does it only work if it's set up for DHCP? Thanks for your help

Having this exact problem. All was working till last week on pass through. Good god. Can’t get ATT to just work. Called ATT many times so useless. Any thoughts ? Did so many unplug and reboots. And nada 👎

I watched your video and a few others on doing this pass through using a Netgear Nighthawk R7000 router. When I connect my laptop directly to the BGW210-700, I get 850+ download speeds and 900+ upload, but when I connect my laptop to the Nighthawk, my download and upload speeds are about 230. I didn’t see anything very different in any of the videos I watched on this process. Any thoughts on why this is happening and how to fix? Thanks

Mr. Miller, this is a very good video. If I may, a couple of feedback comments - You seem to be in a hurry - if you could slow down a bit, reduce the mouse movements a bit, just slow down. You are educating a very mixed age group here on RU-vid and people, like me, are trying to learn and carry out what you are demonstrating - I appreciate your efforts here and I have used your video with a couple others to learn how to do the Passthrough Mode changes to my AT&T BGW210 modem/router. Thanks for your efforts.

My Uverse router homepage looks nothing like that. I can't find a spot for to change to IP pasthrough and the router I plug in isn't being given a IP

Big fan of your videos! I did this a long time ago BUT recently I did a Synology router test and it failed. After troubleshooting I found that tracert showed the vlan I was on then my AT&T router’s private ip. My UDM shows my public IP is my wan. How can this be? Is there a way to eliminate the AT&T private IP as I believe this is why the router test failed? Thanks!

Why is your att website different than mine? Mine don't offer all the firewall advanced settings

Nice finally.

Since I disabled all the firewall stuff for this, Do you think my network is vulnerable to any attack of some sorts?

I'm about to pull the trigger on this passthrough w/ a TP Link router. I noticed you turned off all firewall stuff but I don't think you ran through that with the new router setup in this video. Does the new router have default firewall rules already?

would the speed be the same on the wifi router or would there be a loss? or by some miracle... does it actually get faster?

Shouldn't you do pass-through as you showed AND enable "cascaded router" mode as well from the same page I believe that you enable pass-through from? In the description on arris bgw210-700 router page it says to enable this setting if you are using another router for your network so maybe this is the fix necessary to get past the double NAT issues I see people here commenting as having after following videos instructions....which were great btw and much appreciated!

you didn't show how to set the router wan or internet connection setting. Should it be DHCP or static?? If static, should wan ip and lan ip be on same or different subnets?

im using a google nest wifi mesh setup and even when i followed all of these steps, connecting to my google wifi wirelessly, i can still access the att settings. I can also still connect to the wifi of the att modem and everything still wokrs. I am confused.

Why should you not be able to get to the AT&T router page from your PFSense? I used this video to setup DHCP-Fixed to my UDM Pro and it works! However I can still get to the AT&T router page behind the UDM Pro. Maybe because it's allowing traffic between networks? The AT&T router is on its own network and the UDM Pro is on its own, but its not vlanned.

What is the benefits of that new router? I know you said the AT&T router sucks but curious. I may do this. Open/forwarding ports is pretty tedious but curious if there is any other reasons you recommend that router you have. Thanks!

Do I disable DHCP on second router?

the site won't let me type in the bar where the default server internal address goes...

4:04 Sick diagram, dude :D

I did all the steps, but I am still able to access my ATT page and not the new router page. Any ideas?

I've been told that if you use the same IP/Subnet on your router - you should switch the default IP/Subnet of the AT&T modem/router to their alternative (172.x.x.x). Is this accurate?

After setting IP Passthrough can't you still access the at&t router page to change other settings?

Should Packet Filters be DISABLED on the AT&T modem? It's under FIREWALL>PACKET FILTER.

Awesome video. Can we totally bypass the AT&T router if we installed something like a DecoXE75? You run use it as a router or access points.

Will this work if I use a amplifi alien router mesh system?

I have a att 320 (fiber). Why do passthrough? Could I just turn off ATT wifi on their route/modem (combo) device? Then just hook up my new router (as if i am just plugging it i to a regular modem)? Note: i just got an Asus 5700 ax86u

I’m sorry if I’m late but I came here to tell you that I’ve been having a issue with my pass through settings were I’m trying to use my xr1000 and it works for a couple of hours I guess but after a couple hours the router turns off and it makes it to were I have no connection so if there is a solution to fix this let me know

Question--because you know way more about networking than I do. The ATT gateway does not have a true bridge mode; it is always going to be a router. If you turn off all the firewall features on the ATT, doesn't that leave it wide open to successful attacks and possible malware infection?

I'm still able to access the gateway after enabling passthrough, idk what I did wrong

How do you disable wifi on it? I just got fiber with att and am trying to setup my orbi mesh system with it. Would i still want to disable the router feature on the att box?

HELP Pls! I followed your setup on the passthrough but I can still reach my ATT router through my new router wifi

Is this something a beginner can/should handle?

Do you have a fix for double NAT?

I am still able to access/log into the bgw320 behind pfSense. However my pfsense WAN has received the public IP and I am connected to internet. What's happening?

This man is a genius my goodness

Im having an issue were my default sever internal address isn't showing up

Great now do it with Static IPs provided by ATT while service your LAN devices to one of your blocks while maintaining a static IP on the Pfsense itself. Get ready to beat your head against a wall

Why would I want to do this? I have no idea what I’m talking. Is it for security? Privacy? Or lower latency?

im sorry but where the hell is the mac address located?? and why did you not show to disable the wifi from the att router

connect to cisco any connect vpn using just the ATT router.

I am just curious If you are having a public ip address and not in same network. from there I can set a 2 WAN network on my pfsense box? WAN 1 > Public IP 216.XX.XX.XX WAN 2 > Public IP 102.XXX.XX.XX so I don't need to reconfigure from the AT & T modem? Is that possible? Thank you for sharing

"I'll fix it in post" lmao

I can still access the att router after following the guide. Double checked that I did not miss a step.

I just wish you were my grandson, Lol!

I hate Att - I have so many issues with them using my own router - they want to control everything I do and not let me use a different company

Does this remove the ads???

Thats not the modem they use here

Isn't it better to use bridge mode?

This is not the best method, traffic is still going in and out of the router, you need a bypass

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att blows. They don't allow you to simply bridge their router. Only passthrough which slows down your connection (1gig down to 100m wifi) so they can see what you do and every device you have connected. and super high pings. pages load like it's dsl. At&t is the worst.

I tried this a while back and couldn't get it to work. I was never able to see my router on the network - only the AT&T gateway. I didn't know that I should keep re-booting, though. I also didn't turn off the at&t firewall stuff so maybe that had something to do with it also.

Did you have to turn off the DHCP on the ATT gateway? I am currently fighting with it. It keeps giving a 192.168 number to my UDMP. I have pass through setup but the ATT gateway isn’t doing the pass through. I am on my 20th reboot