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Nittany24
Jan 17, 2020Guide
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 C...
- Jan 19, 2020
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! :)
michaelkenward
Jan 18, 2020Guru - Experienced User
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.
duckware
Jan 18, 2020Prodigy
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.
- duckwareJan 18, 2020Prodigy
Nittany24, does your D7000v2 have a red internet port on it?
Well, this is all one big mess. According to photos Netgear itself submitted to the FCC for the D7000 (PY315200306) and the D7000v2 (PY316400356), the D7000 HAS a red internet port, but the D7000v2 does NOT have a red internet port.
D7000v2:
Label: https://fccid.io/PY316400356/Label/Label-Sample-and-Label-Location-Information-3358702.pdf
External: https://fccid.io/PY316400356/External-Photos/External-Photos-3358694.pdf#page=2
D7000:
Label: https://fccid.io/PY315200306/Label/ID-Label-Location-Information-pdf-2624639.pdf#page=2
External: https://fccid.io/PY315200306/Internal-Photos/Internal-Photos-pdf-2624640.pdf#page=1
- duckwareJan 18, 2020Prodigy
Search the V2 manual for "Must use Ethernet WAN". Looks like with this setting one of the LAN ports on the back gets converted to the WAN port (should be labeled?) -- which you then plug into your cable modem.
- antinodeJan 18, 2020Guru
> You can repurpose the D700v2 as an Access Point, but not as a router
> to your new modem.Doesn't _anyone_ around here read the User Manual?
> 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).Look again? The D7000v2 User Manual is lousy with errors ("red
Internet port", for example), but it does mention the "Internet WAN
port".> Search the V2 manual for "Must use Ethernet WAN". [...]
Or just trust the gizmo to do the right thing automatically.
- michaelkenwardJan 18, 2020Guru - Experienced User
duckware wrote:
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).
That should surprise no one. Even if the manual was correct to begin with, Netgear has a habit of changing things during production.
The illustration I am looking at, dated December 2017, clearly has a dual-purpose port labelled LAN4/Ethernet WAN on the back.
The Technical Specifications also refer to:
WAN One RJ-45 port supporting 10BASE-T, 100BASE-TX, and 1000BASE-T
The data sheet also refers to:
Gigabit Ethernet WAN port provides universal compatibility with any Internet service.
- Nittany24Jan 19, 2020Guide
Thank you michaelkenward you are correct that I have one port hat is called LAN 4/Ehternet WAN. I do not have a red port called Internet.
Thank you duckware for also helping me.
I appreciate both of your kind responses as I was confusd about how I was going to get this to work. I had searched the Netgear community page for help before I asked the question and couldn't find an answer.
So what I will do is once I get the cable modem installed today (tech will be out this afternoon) I will connect the cable modem with an ethernet cable to the LAN4/Ethernet WAN port and see what happens! Hopefully it will convert automatically. I'll let you know.
- michaelkenwardJan 19, 2020Guru - Experienced User
Nittany24 wrote:
So what I will do is once I get the cable modem installed today (tech will be out this afternoon) I will connect the cable modem with an ethernet cable to the LAN4/Ethernet WAN port and see what happens!
That should work just fine. The manuals for Netgear's DSL modem/routers all seem to offer this router only mode. They just differ slightly in how to go about it. Many modem/routers has a standalone WAN port rather than a dual purpose WAN/LAN port.
In that way, the Internet bypasses the modem bit of the D7000. When I have played around with a D6400 modem/router in that mode, I didn't have to do anything.
One thing to bear in mind, the D7000 makes it connection through the new modem, and it needs to negotiate its settings during the boot phase. This means that you should start the D7000 after the new modem has established its Internet connection. So start the network in the correct order:
Be sure to restart your network in this sequence:- Turn off and unplug modem.
- Turn off router and computers.
- Plug in and turn on modem. Wait 2 minutes for it to connect.
- Turn on the router and wait 2 minutes for it connect.
- Turn on computers and rest of network.
And get the modem sorted out before you add the D7000. It isn't always easy to get back into its management interface when the router is in charge of managing the local network.