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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 C...
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! :)
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
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.
> 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.
