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C7000v2 I have a question about using wi fi only
Hello,
I just had an Altice Cable box installed that came with its own Modem/Wi-Fi on board so the tech told me I had to disable my Netgear unit which I did, unfortuneately the Altice units wi fi is terrible. I soke to them today and they told me that they can disable the wi-fi on their unit and i can run a hardwired cable from the Altice unit to my Netgear Modem/Router and have it manage the wi-fi traffic.
My question is to what port on my Netgear device would I have to plug the patch cord into in order to make the connection and is there any other steps that I would need to do ?
Thank you,
Frank
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> My question is to what port on my Netgear device would I have to plug
> the patch cord into in order to make the connection and is there any
> other steps that I would need to do ?You should be able to configure your C7000v2 as a wireless access
point. See, for example:https://community.netgear.com/t5/x/x/m-p/1463500
That's written for a Netgear C6300-as-WAP, but the steps are about the
same for any other router (any make/model) which lacks a one-step WAP
option. (I'd expect a C7000v2 to be very similar.)- I did exactly these steps and noticed a significant drop in download speed with the unit operating in this mode. So bad that I am having them come back to take the Altice unit out and replace it with the standard cable box. Then I will use my C7000 as intended and hopefully get a better Wi-Fi speed
> [...] noticed a significant drop in download speed with the unit
> operating in this mode. [...]With my weak psychic powers, I don't know which speed you're
comparing with which other speed, or how you measured either of them.
Similarly, what the speed might be with a wire-connected device, what
your wireless device might be, which radio band(s) you might be using,
or much of anything else in the category of useful information.