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csprofz
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Jun 07, 2020

Can I use CM1150V as just a router?

I want to switch to GoNetSpeed from Xfinity. I have Xfinity's triple play. GoNetSpeed is a fiber based provider and supplies a modem. Can I switch off telephone and modem functions in the CM1150V and use it justas a router? GoNetSpeed speed is 1 Gig.

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  • antinode's avatar
    antinode
    Guru
    Jun 07, 2020

    > [...] Can I switch off telephone and modem functions in the CM1150V
    > and use it justas a router? [...]

     

       No.  A model CMxxxx is a modem only.  If it had any router functions,
    then you might have a chance, but it has none.

     

       A model Cxxxx modem+router, for example, includes a router, but even
    there, with no Ethernet WAN/Internet port, it's useless as a
    general-purpose router.  (But a Cxxxx might be usable as a wireless
    access point.  I doubt that a CMxxxx could do even that.)