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Netgear XR500 on Plusnet
Hello community, Please help. I've just set up my New Netgear XR500 on Plusnet. Seems to be working but cannot disable the WiFi on the Plusnet router so now have two devices giving out WiFi. Anyone...
I've looked through loads of help things & chatted to someone online but they couldn't help. The plus net 'fix' on their forum is buy a third party modem. Thanks anyway.
If you have a hub one, that defeinate;y cant be used in bridge only mode. You can get a Netgear Modem pretty cheeply, or pick up and old BT openreach modem, tenner or so off ebay, but I would go with the netgear modem as its much newer. There are other modems like the Vigor 130 but that is much more expensive and runs quite warm too.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/NETGEAR-DM200-100EUS-High-Speed-Broadband-Modem/dp/B01GL3YPHI
- Thanks. Yes that's what their forum said. I was going to go for the Dm200 from Amazon but as I would like to sort it out today I'm going to go to argos & try this.
http://www.argos.co.uk/product/5728882?storeID=4162&cmpid=GS001&_$ja=tsid:59158|cid:598893978|agid:24310582250|tid:aud-144400486596:pla-215576371250|crid:86867309210|nw:g|rnd:9996005296956709042|dvc:m|adp:1o1|mt:|loc:9045085&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIoNuRi4rz2QIVCLvtCh0A_AAnEAQYASABEgKp7vD_BwE
There were also a couple of recent reviews on amazon on the Dm200 that put me off as well. One saying that it wasn't compatible with their netgear router & one saying the setup is fiddly.
I'm going to give this argos one a go & if it fails I'll try & return it and get the Dm200.
Many thanks for your help.Thats a modem router again, which will need putting in bridge mode to work, should be fine though. Good luck.
- Thanks buddy! Will keep you posted. Hopefully I can figure it out, if not will go for an out and out modem like the draytek 130.