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Connecting more than two devices to LAN ports and none can see Internet
If I connect another router to my Netgear and use that other router by connecting four or five devices to it, they all can see the internet and work just fine. But if I remove that other router and c...
Everything is working fine. Note, please, that the Netgear modem/router has always worked fine - the problem was with the flaky DNS server addresses provided by Comcst.
Yes, it is a WiFi cable modem router (C3700).
I found the problem. My ISP DHCP provided DNS addresses that were barely functional so anything that tried to reach a URL through the modem/router had terrible odds of being successful. I connected my computer to the router via WiFi and it never had a problem of any kind while wired devices were non-functional. Why? Because I had se known good DNS addresses into my computer and when it connected through the router (even though it used DHCP) it IGNORED the ISP DNS addresses while wired devices tried to use those DNS addresses.
My ISP is Comcast.
Oh, and I had set those known good DNS addresses into the other router - which is why that configuration worked. (The Netgear became merely an access point.)
