connection question

so as i started this thread i ented c3700 n600   that should take care of the model and i said netgear modem/router.

and i said i tred to connect the tmobile gateway wich is the same name netgear calls their modems and people on this site complained that i calle it a router they said it was a modem so it seems everyone has ther own name for these and it is all the same you call it what you want i will call it a gateway. they said a stand alone device that connect to the internet was a gateway and the device that you connect your devices to was a router. i went down this road a few times

i gave enought information for someone to help.

i said i got the tmobile modem and disconneted the c3700 modem from the cable company and took a cat5 cable and plugget it into port 1 on the netgear and prot 1 on the tmobile modem. but my personal devices would not connect eother ethernet or wifi to the netgear modem. they would connect the the tmobile modem via wifi but not thru ethernet.

but now it does not matter as some other forum has this same issue and as it turns out the tmobile modem is just a glorified hot spot and not a real modem. because it uses wifi to connect to it system. it just happens to be it uses 5g.

so on the tmobile forums they are all complaining about not being able to do the exact same think i was here asking help for. so it may be awhile before this happens or it maynot ever happen. so now people like me that have a smart type home if they use the hotspot will not be able to contact there home devices thru the tmobile modem, unless tmobile changes the system.

thanks

> last time i got in depth they yelled at me [...]

   A maker and model number is not "in depth".  Which part of "actual"
did you find confusing?

> [...] you do not seem to be able to help [...]

   Knowing approximately nothing about your devices, what you did, what
happened when you did it, what you want to accomplish, or anything else
useful, makes it tough to provide specific advice.