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JudyLee
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Jan 25, 2021
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Do I need to buy a modem separately for this router?

I just bought a Nighthawk AC1750, model R6700v3, thinking all I had to do was plug it in just like my older WGR614 and it would work the same only better.  Not so much.  When I got to the set up page...
  • JudyLee's avatar
    Jan 26, 2021

    Wow, thanks for the responses y'all.  I was pretty desperate. I'd tried to find help on Netgear, this community and called my provider, googled, even called my brother who is a computer engineer and knows a few things.  I made note of the fact that the old router and the new router looked EXACTLY THE SAME where the connections were, so I decided to keep trying.  I literally just kept clicking buttons until something worked.  I wound up coming in the back door so to speak and did a right click on the router icon in control panel and suddenly I was on the right page and the router was connecting.  So, thanks, I got it set up, don't need a modem for my Atlink, it just needed to be set up correctly and I guess I stumbled upon the place to get it accomplished. Sheesh!!