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Looking for cable and voice modem with two ethernet ports
I bought a Netgear CM500V Cable and Voice modem (no router) to replace my Xfinity modem/router. I don't need an integrated router because I have a Nest Mesh WiFi, which includes its own router alrea...
> [...] I have a Nest Mesh WiFi, which includes its own router already.
> [...]How many LAN Ethernet ports does it have? (Has it a model number?)
> [...] I need two ethernet ports. [...]
Perhaps, but not on your modem.
Almost certainly, your Internet service provides one external/public
IP address, which means that you can connect only one client device
directly to your modem. If you have multiple client computers/devices,
then that one device connected to your modem must be your (NAT) router,
and all your other client devices must be connected to the router (LAN
ports).> Do I need to be looking at another manufacturer to meet all my needs?
No. You can look, but the same will be true for anyone's stuff.
The wiring might be more convenient if you could connect both a
router (WAN/Internet port) and a computer/device directly to the modem,
but that wouldn't work. There are some modems which have multiple
Ethernet ports, but, for users with typical service (one external/public
IP address, only one port on the modem can be used; the other ports are
useless.If the _router_ doesn't have enough LAN Ethernet ports, then you can
use a network switch to expand one of those to serve more devices. But
that wouldn't work for a modem port.
> [...] I have a Nest Mesh WiFi, which includes its own router already.
> [...]
How many LAN Ethernet ports does it have? (Has it a model number?)
> [...] I need two ethernet ports. [...]
Perhaps, but not on your modem.
Almost certainly, your Internet service provides one external/public
IP address, which means that you can connect only one client device
directly to your modem. If you have multiple client computers/devices,
then that one device connected to your modem must be your (NAT) router,
and all your other client devices must be connected to the router (LAN
ports).
> Do I need to be looking at another manufacturer to meet all my needs?
No. You can look, but the same will be true for anyone's stuff.
The wiring might be more convenient if you could connect both a
router (WAN/Internet port) and a computer/device directly to the modem,
but that wouldn't work. There are some modems which have multiple
Ethernet ports, but, for users with typical service (one external/public
IP address, only one port on the modem can be used; the other ports are
useless.
If the _router_ doesn't have enough LAN Ethernet ports, then you can
use a network switch to expand one of those to serve more devices. But
that wouldn't work for a modem port.
Thank you. After I posted my original question and did some more reading, I realized I had asked the wrong question. As your reply indicates, I can only have one internet connection, and that needs to connect to the router. So I should have asked how else I can maintain an ethernet cable connection to my computer. The answer, I deduced from reading other posts, is that I only need the one ethernet connection in the modem to connect to the router, and I can to connect the computer by ethernet directly to the Nest router's LAN port. I did that, and all's good. So thanks for confirming what I came to understand with some additional research.