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Stephenwisham
Aspirant
Nov 01, 2015
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Windstream says router is interfering with dsl modem

I signed up with windstream dsl internet service yesterday. I have a netgear n150 wnr1000 router and a speed stream 4200 dsl modem. Everything was fine up until an hour ago. Service was really slow. T...
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  • TheEther's avatar
    TheEther
    Nov 08, 2015

    Then, your Speedstream is functioning as a router. You will have to pick one of the two options I provided in my first reply.

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Stephenwisham
Aspirant
Nov 08, 2015
From what I can tell, the speedstream is only a modem.
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    TheEther
    Guru
    Nov 08, 2015

    According to the manual, the Speedstream 4200 is a combination DSL modem and router.

     

    Can you log into the WNR1000? Go to the Basic Settings page and look at the IP address. If it starts with either 10.x.y.z or 192.168.y.z, then your Speedstream is definitely running in router mode.