I have two pepwave soho munits, both are about 4 years old.
I have just received an arris cable modem, and want to use the modem with one of my soho pepwave routers.
I son’t use cellular for any kind of internet acess, no that I have this cable modem, so I don’t care about 5g, etc…but rather simply want the most security I can get.
My reading tells me I can use both together, hooking the modem up to the soho unit and using it as the rounter for the LAN. I assume I would hook it up to the WAN ethernet connection and then all LAN components to the pepwave unit. is this, please, correct?
also, should I switch off NAT translation on the arris modem using the pepwave soho unit for all such functions?
are there any caveats that I should be thinking about?
if creating a bridge does it, do I need to make a separate move on disabling nat translation on the arris?
and lastly, and now I am in learning mode…if I did not create a formal bridge, but rather, say, disabled nat translation on the arris and just plugged the arris into the WAN connection on the peplink unit, would all still actually work…with a bridge making it even better?..or is it a yes or no in terms of working without creating a bridge?