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Moocow1980
Dec 04, 2021Apprentice
CAX80 won't work at all on WOW Internet; firmware update ruined it
Here's the deal. I just got in the mail today a replacement from Netgear for my CAX80. (Hindsight says I may not have needed it, but here we are.) I am with WOW Internet as my ISP in Columbus, O...
wziemer
Mar 02, 2022Star
My experiance has been that WOW will not work with us on this issue from their end; customer service just insists that the issue is with your modem and the only thing they will offer is to send out a tech (who will then use a motorola modem, show you that it works with their modem, and then charge you for the house visit...trust me...i'm well aware of that lol). WOW will do very little troubleshooting of customer-owned modems before they just say "sorry, rent ours".
ErnestTheGreat
Mar 03, 2022NETGEAR Employee Retired
Yeah, there seems to be lot of issues among ISPs just pointing the finger to the 3rd party modem/gateway manufacturers rather than taking time to really find out the root cause of the problem their paying customers are having. Also, it's interesting how the ISP modems seem to always magically work when it costs users a monthly fee to rent ;)
- FURRYe38Mar 03, 2022Guru - Experienced User
Oh ya...Some ISPs seem to avoid taking responsbility. :smileyfrustrated:
Usually this happens at the first level support and not much help sometimes, unless you really get lucky and get a good support agent willing to go deeper.