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skiedagain's avatar
skiedagain
Aspirant
May 09, 2013

Using a DGN2200 for Fiber internet

When I bought my DGN2200 last year, one of the big reasons for choosing it was the Netgear statement that it was easy to upgrade to cable or fiber. Now I have fiber internet installed and everywhere I look people state that it cannot be used for fiber because it does not have a WAN port.

Did Netgear lie to me or is LAN port 1 also a WAN port as it is on the BOB Lite modem that I was forced to change to as well as several ADSL access points?

My desktops are running 3 or 4 times as fast as they were on ADSL, my laptops are running at half speed.

I want by DGN2200 back.

6 Replies

  • skiedagain's avatar
    skiedagain
    Aspirant
    May 10, 2013
    Yet they continue to advertise the DGN2200 as "easy conversion to cable or fibre".
    I guess "easy" to them means throw your Netgear away and buy one from someone else.
    The product specs on Netgear.com.au shows a WAN port on Ethernet port 1. It is not a gigabit ethernet port but then again, this is Australia, Fibre maxes out at 100Mbps and I only get 25MBbps (Nominal).

    Any ideas?
  • jmizoguchi's avatar
    jmizoguchi
    Virtuoso
    May 10, 2013
    It has to have WAN ports and not LAN port 1-4 for model with DSL built-in that support other broadband

    There is multiple DGN2200

    got to support.netgear.com and identify correct one.
  • shams's avatar
    shams
    Aspirant
    May 22, 2014
    the product is netgear dgn2200v4 and i want it to use with cable (rj45 connection) is it possible?