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Nighthawk Mesh AX 3000 no internet connection
Alright so my family bought the Nighthawk Mesh wifi 6 system. The idea was to get rid of the internet provider (century link) rental modem. I had to call the help line because the Nighthawk was not ge...
Model Number is MK73S
Century link modem is C3000Z
I have the admin login info from century link
its DSL and I have the fastest speed which is 1gig
I'm not sure if you're fully aware of what they have setup.
Reason I say this is DSL doesn't support 1 gig speeds.
So you must have fibre. does that fibre come into an ONT? or what is it connected to?
Centurylink is great at requiring their own gateway.
What I see a lot of people do is use their gateway, disable its wifi, and then put the netgears IP address into the centurylink's DMZ.
I have no clue what your talking about now as I obviously have no clue what they did. But I was able to finally get into my century link account and found I am receiving 940 MBPS.
I do know My Century link modem is connected via Cat5 coming out of my kitchen wall.
I talked to a coworker about this and he said he was able to turn off the wifi on his century link modem and placed the Netgears IP into the century link.
The whole goal is to stop paying the $15 a month for a rental modem especially since I have done this for 2 years and more and could have bought a really good modem at this point.
Centurylink doesn't make using your own router easy. I don't have centurylink so I can only go off what others have done/said.
This article goes over pretty nicely how to use a 3rd party router with centurylink .
https://wowepic.net/my-own-router-with-centurylink-fiber/
Some of the requirements go over setting a vlan tag id. pages 85-86 of the manual go over doing that.
Plus you'll need all your popoe info.