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Bridging My Cable Modem + Router w/ Nightgear Router
So I bought a Netgear Nighthawk XR500 and bought a Arris Surfboard SB8300 and wanted to know how to bridge these properly cause I’m always lagging out of my games and want to have the fastest connecti...
I Have the SBG8300
If you enable bridge mode on the SBG8300, it puts it in modem only mode.
So enable that, disconnect everything hardwired from the SBG (it'll reboot itself) and once it reboots, power it off. Then connect your netgear router to lan port 1 on the sbg and have the netgear turned off.
Boot up sbg and give it a couple minutes.
Then boot up the netgear and try setup.
- Sounds easy enough only question I have is do I put the nighthawk in a AP mode or router mode
If you're putting the SBG8300 in bridge mode, the netgear should be in router mode.
If you leave the sbg8300 in router mode, then you'd want the netgear in access point mode.
- Which one would you recommend to do?