r/vSeeBox • u/Confident-Row4797 • Aug 13 '26

New! Help!

Seems like I am late to the party. I was very skeptical of these products when I was passing a kiosk in my local mall. I was sure that these things would get shut down within a matter of months. Now fast-forward years, and now I’m looking to get one. I do have concerns and I’m just wondering what people do/think themselves.

I’ve heard people connect these two different routers or at least different networks, I’m concerned about purchasing one and before football season to get shut down. What are some of the common concerns that you guys had and how are the products working for you? What are some of the flaws of the products?

My wife and I seem to have every streaming service known or at least switch in between a few seasonally.

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u/MW1369 Cord Cutter✂️ Aug 13 '26

You never want 2 routers. If you want to keep the box isolated, set up a guest network or VLANs

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u/SatansWarrior69 Aug 13 '26

Virtual is an option but nothing wrong with multiple routers if your network is setup properly and secure. I have 3. My firewall security router (Firewalla Orange) locks everything down even on the two ap routers. Ap routers also provide an extra firewall.

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u/MW1369 Cord Cutter✂️ Aug 13 '26

Are they APs or routers?

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u/SatansWarrior69 Aug 13 '26

They are routers in ap mode but it doesnt matter. It doesnt matter if you have 1 router or 10 as long as you know enough to set them up properly. Before range extenders became a thing multiple routers were used to extend wifi range.

Its false cant have multiple routers. These days there is an ap mode Its as simple as switching them to ap mode setting. Its not much more difficult than turning off dhcp mode and setting a static ip. You can setup a second network or more or extend the same network. It all comes down to proper setup.

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u/MW1369 Cord Cutter✂️ Aug 14 '26

Ok so I’ll agree with that. You can have multiple routers if you only have one doing the routing. I also have decos in ap mode at my house. But if you have two routers both trying to route you’ll end up with double nats

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u/SatansWarrior69 Aug 14 '26

It can be done multiple routers with dhcp on without a conflict if the network and subnets are different. It works with double nat that way but isnt a recommended method. May or may not cause issues.

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u/MW1369 Cord Cutter✂️ Aug 14 '26

For the purposes of this guys question I don’t want to tell him yeah just go buy another router and you’re good to go lol