Instructions for setting up nighthawk RAX41 to use with my ISP router in bridge or modem mode.

…..or put my ISP’s router into bridge mode and then reconfigure my Netgear router back into normal router mode and just connect it via ethernet cable to my ISP router once it’s reconfigured into bridge mode?

And just so you guys know, my ISP’s router which is a Calix 844E-1 is just a plain router itself as it connects to an ONT provided by my ISP.

I’ve used my Netgear router before to replace my ISP’s router, but the only reason why I reconnected their router and then put my Netgear router into AP mode was because one night when I wasn’t home, we were having some kind of Internet issues and my ISP was unable to remotely connect to router for a diagnostics test, but whatever it was that happened, I think the reason why my wife still didn’t have Internet after the ISP got their problem worked out was because she, I think, accidentally pressed the button on the Netgear router that turned off its Wi-Fi radios which pretty much rendered her without Internet until I got home to correct it but now that I don’t go out of town that much anymore and being that the only other issues we’ve had has been from just from plain outages and being that I’m pretty sure I can go into my router settings and turn off the buttons, I’m really starting to think I need to just go back to replacing their router completely with my own router and not use theirs at all being that I really don’t think my ISP needs to diagnose a router when they can still diagnose their own ONT. Thoughts?

For whatever it’s worth, forgive me for trying out that new ChatGPT stuff but when I asked the question to it, it said being that my ISP router connects to an ONT that I would be much better off to just completely replace their router with my router even over putting their router into bridge mode and the reasons it gave was less equipment being used, and the one that stood out to me was where it said something about how some ISP routers in bridge mode can sometimes deliver certain things improperly as they’re supposed to or something like that.

So what’s the verdict? Just replace their router with mine and call it good or set their router up in bridge mode and then connect my router to theirs? I mean, is there really any technical advantage by using my router in full-blown router mode connected to another router that is in bridge mode?

THANKS.