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jjon90
Guide
Oct 04, 2016

Orbi and Arris touchstone TG2472 (Cox )

I can confirm that Orbi worked seamlessly with my Cox cable/wifi/telephone modem! I did shut down the wireless capability in the Arris prior to the Orbi setup! Orbi did improve the speed and connecti...
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Trikein
Luminary
Dec 24, 2016

How did you set it up? That gateway is not capable of being bridged because it has phone service attached to it. You should still disable the wireless on the gateway if you don't mean to use it. It will only mess with the Orbi wireless.

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    jjon90
    Guide
    Dec 24, 2016

    I did not set the Orbi up in bridged mode.

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

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      Trikein
      Luminary
      Dec 25, 2016

      Then you have double NAT. Hopefully you don't game or do any advanced networking.

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        jjon90
        Guide
        Dec 26, 2016

        If I remember I think I Put the wireless router in modem's DMZ. But it's been too long I can't remember how I did it. Bit not having any  gaming conflicts/errors with ports.