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willvee2010
Jan 12, 2022Aspirant
Connecting a Samsung Smartthings WiFi ET-WV525 to a CM1200
So i connected the Netgear cm1200 to the network, had it provisioned by xfinity and it seems like it is working (although it is throttling at 90Mb/s). i have an old apple router and a samsung smartth...
willvee2010
Jan 12, 2022Aspirant
i will connect just the samsung smartthings wifi hub to the netgear to see if that makes a difference and let you know what the result is.
i did connect the samsung hub to the netgear direct but it was on another port (not port1) while there were other connections to the other ports. on the netgear front panel it shows the port is acknowledging that there is something connected to it but displays orange, not green. i will disconnect everything except one device off port1 and see what happens. thx
plemans
Jan 12, 2022Guru - Experienced User
when you swap things round, you might need to power off the modem for 2 minutes. then connect the device you want on the modem and power it on.