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wif modems
ok first off i have a c3700 modem router combo and a guy on the ipcam site told me this is junk. what i need to find out is what wifi modem has any type of vpn built into them. this guy tells me netgear has a system that has free as in 0.00$ for the service built into them. all i can find are paid services that the wifi modem connects to so i can get on the internet and not worry about hackers and such. is there anything that netgear has the incorproates the vpn in them at all. this guy is insisting that i do not have a clue and told me he has a netgear modem and router that has free as in 0.00$ built into the router.
i tried to connect a r600 router to my c3700 modem and the router locked up and would not let me on the internet i had 3 people try it. and ift faile even netgears wizard would not connect it up. so i was told to just use a wifi combo unit. this guy says they combos are junk. so tell me who is correct here. i'm gettin signals for both ends. so i will believe this site before that guy. thanks
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Put in a cable modem (ideally from the ISP) which can be configured as modem (no router, no NAT), with a Gigabit interface, unles the ISP is about to offer higher bandwidth soon and you need one with a Multi-Gig or multiple Gigabit Etherenet ports. The add a router to it - depending on the location to be covered this might be a single box WiFi router, or then a router, some switch (with PoE) and some PoE powered wireless access points.
And when it comes to VPN coverage in the products, please tell us exactly what for you need a VPN. To connect the the site in a secure way while away? To connect multiple sites and locations? To deploy a hide-my-a**-type VPN?
thansk i have the wifi modem now the c3700 unit so what else are you telling me? i have ip cameras and i'm getting so many different people telling me different things that now i'm confused. they tell me i need to get a vpn and they say the netgear has it built into the deviec. some say the routers some say the modems. so i now don't have a clue.
i'm thinking what they are telling me i need to get a vpn that hides me form everything and that i'm the only one that can see thru the vpn so i can check on my cameras when i'm not home.
at this point now i do not have any clue as to what to do. this can't be rocket sicence but it seems like but holes everyone has one and they do not mind telling me what i have to do to get this resolved. and it is just confusing. so that is why i'm asking netgear being i have the netgear modem the c3700 unit theat has wifi in it. thanks
If your trying to connect a external router to the C3700, this alreay has a built in router. To connect a external router to the C3700, you would first need to put the C3700 into modem only mode. Not sure if it's the same as my C7800, however mine has a NAT Mode menu option. When enabled the router portion of the modem is enabled. If you DISABLE NAT mode, then this disabled the router portion of the modem and makes it a modem only.
Review the user manual for this feature. If you can get the C3700 into modem only mode, then you can connect the external router.
The reason for the problem is that the IP address between the two are in conflict and maybe using the same LAN IP address. Putting the C3700 into modem mode will fix this.
ok thanks i bet that is why i could not get them to work together before. i used the netgear wiaard and you would think that would turn of the c3700 wifi. i see that in the c3700 setup section. so maybe i can do that tomorrow. on guy form netgear told me to turn on the r6000 acess point and when i did that the r600 went off and i could not get it back. so i took it off and put the c3700 back on. so iw ill try that. then what about the vpn does the r6000 have the vpn built into it or do i need to get a service? the guy on the ip cam site told me the vpn is free on the netgear system now he may be talking about the routers and not the modems. so does the r6000 have a free vpn built into it? thanks
thanks i see how to turn off the router on this unit. i was just there checking it out. i will do that and see how it works. then anyone know what vpn is free with the r6300 router? or is tehre instruction for getting a vpn service on the r6300 router? or if that router will accept a vpn thanks
ok i jsur tried to connect the r6300 router to my modem and it will not connect. i truned of the ssid and it fail then i turne of the router mode and it failed then i turned both off and it failed. i can't turn of the ac mode ther is no check box for that. so my guess it this unit can not be combined with another router. or the router itself is bad.
tell me can i get any router to be set up with a vpn service. a guy in the ip cam site is calling an **bleep** because i tell him you guys are saying those vpns are not free. so who is correct yo or him?
ok still trying to do this. so now i have anoter issue. i go the c3700 manual and it said i need to bridge the r6300 to the c3700 combo unit and to do that it said i have to turn off the router mode in the c3700 modem. i did that and the router still will not get me on the internet. i have the yellow portt on the router plugged into the #1 port on the modem. so what might be going on? after doing this a number of different ways i tried turning off the router and the ssid on the modem and all i could see was my hime items. and that made me reset the modem a number of times.
then today just for the heck of it i took the 6300 router upstairs and plugged the router into a network switch i have so i can connect my pc's to the modem. i was told i needed a network switch to connect multiple items in the modem and it works, however in doing that i unplugged my pc and it connected via wifi. then i plugged that cable into the back of this 6300 router into one of the 4 ports not the yellow port. and it then let me on the internet. but what i was trying to do was get the router to be by itself so i could hook up the network switch i have downstairs to it. i have a larger switch down stairs by the modem and a smaller one up by my pc.
this time i left the router mode switch alone and i was able to get on the internet. but then my cameras and phone would jump back and forth between both the modem combo unit and the r6300 router.
i had that before and was told to just get another larger faster combo unit. so i'm lost with this. it seem no matter what i try based on instruction i get for helpful people nothing works. the ip cam site told me i need to get a router that has the vpn on it but the router makers tell me they don't make them and then i find out you need to reflash them to get that service to work. the other forums tells me those are free on the routers. thas is another story just saying what i'm up against. so any help with this sure will be welcome. thanks
