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Can I repurpose a Nighthawk DSL Modem as a Wifi Router attached to by Cable Modem?
I currently have a Nighthawk D7000v2 VDSL/ADSL Modem Router. My DSL service connects to it and then it also is used as my wireless router. I am changing over to Cable and have purchased a Netgear CM700 High Speed cable modem. I was hoping to connect my Nighthawk router to it's one ethernet port so I will have WIFI using my old DSL router. I thought if I plugged the cable modem into the Nighthawk's Lan Port (Port #1) it would work. Does anyone know?
I stand corrected!!! I got it to work. I choose "Other" and then went to the page and selected the Must use Ethernet WAN as you had previously instructed. THANKS TO ALL OF YOU! :)
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> I currently have a Nighthawk D7000v2 VDSL/ADSL Modem Router. [...]
Firmware version?
> [...] I thought if I plugged the cable modem into the Nighthawk's Lan
> Port (Port #1) it would work. Does anyone know?Why did you think that? Here's a radical concept:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RTFM
Visit http://netgear.com/support , put in your model number, and look
for Documentation. Get the User Manual. Read. Look for "Set Up the
Modem Router for Cable or Fiber Service". Try not to be misled by
references to a "red Internet port", which might be left over from the
manual for the D7000[v1] (which actually did have a red Internet port.)- Hey antinode, I don't know why you have to act like such a jerk. This was my first time posting a question and you ruined the entire experience for me. I hope someday you are faced with an experience where you reach out to others because you don't know what to do and someone treats you the same way you treated me and tell me to read the f*cking manual. Really nice job and a class act.
DSL and Cable modems are different. I think you misread my question. I'm trying to repurpose my DSL modem as a wireless router connected to a new cable modem so I dont have to go buy another router.
But I'd rather spend the money than have to deal with an idiot clown like you feeling better by being mean to people you don't even know.> [...] I hope someday you are faced with an experience where you reach
> out to others because you don't know what to do and someone treats you
> the same way you treated me and tell me to read the f*cking manual.
> [...]I hope that I never live to see the day when I fail to try to find an
answer for myself in easily available product documentation before
asking for free help from some volunteer. In which universe is it the
considerate thing to do _not_ to read the manual, but to ask for some
volunteer to read it to you?> [...] I think you misread my question. [...]
I think that you're wrong.
> [...] I'm trying to repurpose my DSL modem as a wireless router
> connected to a new cable modem so I dont have to go buy another
> router.
That's how I read it. And that's why I recommended that particular
section of the D7000v2 User Manual. Did you bother to read it? Was
there some part of it which was unclear?> But I'd rather spend the money [...]
Please don't let me stop you.
You can repurpose the D700v2 as an Access Point, but not as a router to your new modem.
duckware wrote:
You can repurpose the D700v2 as an Access Point, but not as a router to your new modem.
I am not convinced that this is the case.
The earlier answer may have been user hostile, which is par for the course, but it is on the right lines. Read the bit in the manual:
Set Up the Modem Router for Cable or Fiber Service
It says there:
You can install your modem router for cable or fiber (Ethernet WAN) service or for DSL service. If you use a cable or fiber modem, follow the procedure that is described in this section.
This is what the Internet/WAN port is there for on the back.
OK, so the illustrations in the manual are wrong (do not match the real physical router)!? The illustrations show no internet port (only a DSL port).
So, IF you see a read jack labeled "internet' on the back of your device, connect that to your new cable modem, and hopefully it will work.
