NETGEAR is aware of a growing number of phone and online scams. To learn how to stay safe click here.
Forum Discussion
Connect to Netgear CG3700 with "router" turned to Off?
My ISP provided me with a Netgear rounter with coax input. The routers wifi has been really **bleep**ty and not working properly so I get a new router and are now using the Netgear only as a modem between the plug in the wall and the new router. Under settings I turned off router mode on the Netgear. But I forgot to first disable wifi so there's still two wifi's broadcasted from the Netgear router. Otherwise everything is working as I wanted it to.
How do I connect (enter the menus/settings) to the "thing" now that it's not really a router anymore? I tried to connect via cable directly to LAN # 1 and the usual 192... address but couldn't.
3 Replies
What is this CG3700? I can't find it in the Netgear system?
Could it be the C3700 cable modem/router? Or is it something that Netgear hand rolled for your ISP?
There is a manual for the C3700 somewhere at the end of this link:
>>>> C3700 | Product | Support | NETGEAR <<<<
It is probably much the same for your device.
gomespablo wrote:
But I forgot to first disable wifi so there's still two wifi's broadcasted from the Netgear router.
If it is the C3700, then there is a switch on the top that turns off the wifi. See the bit in the manual LED and button descriptions. Easily missed because it combines a switch and an indicator.
gomespablo wrote:
How do I connect (enter the menus/settings) to the "thing" now that it's not really a router anymore?
As the thing is still broadcasting wifi, you could see if you can track down the IP address of the wifi from the modem/router, then aim a browser at that IP address. If you are lucky it will throw you into the browser graphical user interface (GUI) for the modem/router.
You could use the Network Map in the desktop genie to reveal the IP address.
Is the ISP charging rent for this modem/router? If so, I'd be tempted to return it and buy a "modem only" cable modem.
