NETGEAR is aware of a growing number of phone and online scams. To learn how to stay safe click here.
Forum Discussion
Solved
Initial cable modem setup mystery
WARNING: For most ISP home accounts, the ISP will provide only 1 IP address via DHCP. So, if you follow Netgear's instructions and connect a computer to the modem directly at first, then either add...
It was the delay that had me stumped, the fact that the IP info assigned to the laptop "stuck" for a while. If I'd just waited, probably 10-15 minutes after swapping the laptop for the router, it would have worked the first time. Just guessing, almost everyone who buys this cable modem has one-address home ISP service, so the extra 3 ports seem more like marketing than anything else. If someone's home equipment is sophisticated enough to trunk/aggregate two 1Gbps ports, the ISP is going to have to figure out how to offer speed to match on its coax cable. Does that happen? I see Comcast advertises up to 1200Mbps, so maybe it does. Unless it really provides that speed, the port aggregation seems like a feature that's misplaced in a common home network served by coax cable.
I think a better set of instructions would be to plug the router into the modem first thing. The modem can then be accessed at 192.168.100.1 from anywhere in the home LAN. No delay, no mystery, no problem.
It was the delay that had me stumped, the fact that the IP info assigned to the laptop "stuck" for a while. If I'd just waited, probably 10-15 minutes after swapping the laptop for the router, it would have worked the first time. Just guessing, almost everyone who buys this cable modem has one-address home ISP service, so the extra 3 ports seem more like marketing than anything else. If someone's home equipment is sophisticated enough to trunk/aggregate two 1Gbps ports, the ISP is going to have to figure out how to offer speed to match on its coax cable. Does that happen? I see Comcast advertises up to 1200Mbps, so maybe it does. Unless it really provides that speed, the port aggregation seems like a feature that's misplaced in a common home network served by coax cable.
I think a better set of instructions would be to plug the router into the modem first thing. The modem can then be accessed at 192.168.100.1 from anywhere in the home LAN. No delay, no mystery, no problem.
Since the CM1200 only has 1Gb WAN ports, would not be really supporting of 1.2Gb on a single WAN port. If LAG is enabled, and you have support for LAG on a router or PC, then maybe, otherwise, 1Gb is about max on a signal line and single WAN port.