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adamfong11
Sep 07, 2020Follower
CM1200 Router Ports
So I have been trying to do some reseach and I have read the other posts about the ethernet ports on the CM1200, but it isn't explicitly clear. What I am trying to do is to connect a wireless r...
antinode
Sep 07, 2020Guru
> [...] In some posts people are saying that only one of the four
> ethernet ports can be used at any given time unless you have separate IP
> addresses from your ISP (for link aggregation purposes). [...]
Thanks for the helpful links. There's a technical term for those
people: "correct". Have you looked at the CM1200 documentation?
https://community.netgear.com/t5/x/x/m-p/1971839
A Web/forum search for your model number should find abundant
evidence of users over-estimating the utility of those Ethernet ports.
> So if I assume that this website is correct, [...]
That's a _big_ "if". If you assume any false statement, then you can
use it to prove anything at all.