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Nighthawk only sees internet when NordVPN is running (Spectrum ISP)
My situation seems odd... I use Spectrum and a Motorola modem (not a Spectrum router, just the modem). I have been running my network using Google Wifi and I wanted to connect something which ...
This was the solution I am going with for now...
Well, I got this thing working by hardcoding the Google DNS servers in my Nighthawk router.
I used 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 instead of getting it from the ISP.
Still not sure what the issue was and maybe I'll probe more later. It seems to me that getting it
from the ISP should work for the Nighthawk just as it did for the Google Wifi. Maybe Google Wifi
uses the same DNS servers. Anyway, just going to go with what I have because I won't have to
put NordVPN on ALL my connected devices...
I also checked the connection with my Samsung and now it works as well, so I'm good for now...
I will trash that Armor software anyway, so maybe I'll switch it back later to test.
But for now, the DNS server change from automatic to selecting the servers works, so I'll go with it.
Thanks to all who gave pointers...
If you had been using automatic DNS then this may have been a ISP DNS issue. Since you changed to different DNS, and now things are working, it may point to a ISP DNS issue...
Possibly an ISP DNS issue, but when I talked to them, they basically said they couldn't
help me with anything beyond the Cable modem since that's all they supplied...
So the extent of their help was to tell me to power everything off and back on in the
"correct" order. Which, of course, I had already done a dozen times as well as with
various permutations of network devices in different orders.
So, yeah... Good luck getting THAT fixed...
Still not sure why Google Wifi ALWAYS worked no matter what order I plugged them in.
Maybe they have Google DNS servers hardcoded into their devices, instead of depending
on ISP for DNS. Google Wifi is not as configurable as far as I can tell.
Anyway, I'll probably re-visit the issue at another time. For now, though, I can get what I
need by hardcoding DNS addresses.
Meanwhile I also turned off that Netgear Armor software via software switch on router. It
will time out in a month or so. I'm not going to buy it, so no big loss. It didn't seem to make
any difference...
Thanks.
