How to Connect a Router to a Modem: 7 Easy Steps for Fast, Secure Home Internet (2025)
Set up your router and modem in minutes. Follow this 7‑step guide for a faster, more secure Wi‑Fi network—ideal for any home or small office.
Wi-Fi Made for Gamers – Dominate the competition with WiFi made for gamers and gaming families
Battle-Tested Processing – 1.8 GHz 64-bit quad-core CPU, three co-processors and 1 GB RAM
Prioritized Performance – Set the QoS engine to gaming mode to keep your connection fast when everyone is online
Connect More Devices – Tri-band Wi-Fi speeds up to 5400 Mbps over one 2.4 GHz (1000 Mbps) and two 5 GHz (2167 Mbps) bands*
Adept Multi-Tasking – MU-MIMO and Airtime Fairness serve multiple connections and distribute Wi-Fi and optimize performance**
Far-Reaching Coverage – RangeBoost strengthens reception and beamforming sends targeted Wi-Fi to keep devices connected at farther distances than other routers*
Doubled Wired Speeds – Link Aggregation teams two of the eight Gigabit LAN ports or one LAN with the WAN port to double the connection speed
Comprehensive Security – Powerful antivirus works to protect all your devices from cyber threats with a free lifetime subscription of HomeCare****
You’ve spent hours picking the perfect parts for your gaming rig. Now get the most out of it with the Archer C5400X—the router designed to power the performance demanded from high-end gaming rigs.
Obliterate The Latency Dynamic Optimization Engine automatically identifies gaming traffic to give you the tactical advantage during heated raids, PvP encounters and ranked matches. When you aren’t gaming, fast-track streaming to watch immersive 4K movies. Start gaming on any devices immediately with GeForce NOW™ – the leading platform for cloud gaming. QoS Mode integrated within Archer Gaming Series Routers, developed by TP-Link and GeForce NOW™, backs your cloud gaming experience by identifying and prioritizing the GeForce NOW™ streaming. This QoS mode is destined to deliver a smooth and immersive cloud gaming experience.
Get into the action with incredible AC5400 tri-band WiFi speeds over the 2.4 GHz (1000 Mbps) and two 5 GHz bands (2167 Mbps).* Three WiFi bands make it easier to streamline your network and stay competitive in the heat of battle.
Dedicate one band to gaming traffic while the remaining two deliver high-speed WiFi to the rest of your home. Or enable Smart Connect to have the router zero in on the best WiFi band for every device, intelligently driving them to peak performance.
A 1.8 GHz 64-bit Quad-Core CPU provides impressive processing power to handle multi-gigs of transmitting data and decimate the latency. 1 GB of RAM delivers the raw power to perfectly execute multiple applications with instant response. Just focus on your competition and Archer C5400X will do the rest.
The Archer C5400X employs MU-MIMO and Airtime Fairness to balance the requests of every device with speed and precision.** Calibrated metrics and sophisticated algorithms determine how the router divides air time and distributes dedicated WiFi streams to each device, leaving you to focus on taking down the opposition instead of fighting your allies for bandwidth.
Game from the basement to the garage and even the backyard with RangeBoost, which strengthens reception quality to reinforce connections in your home and keep both older and newer devices connected at greater distances than other routers.
With eight Gigabit Ethernet ports, you can connect PCs, smart TVs and game consoles to fast, wired connection without needing a switch.
Team two LAN ports using Link Aggregation to double connection speeds from 1 Gbps to 2 Gbps for Network Attached Storage (NAS) devices and PCs. Combine the WAN port with a LAN port to connect DOCSIS 3.1 modems for best-in-industry internet speeds.
Secure your data no matter where you are by using the built-in VPN and OpenVPN to create a private network with PPTP while VPN Acceleration increases connection speeds.
Set up your router and modem in minutes. Follow this 7‑step guide for a faster, more secure Wi‑Fi network—ideal for any home or small office.
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