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YoshiKatzo
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Sep 17, 2019
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Help!! R7000 Router Won't Connect To Modem Since RESET

Hi there,  I have purchased a R7000 Nighthawk router and it was working perfectly fine! I messed with heaps of settings and was having loads of fun with it, however, I wanted to reset all my setting...
  • Twoopy's avatar
    Sep 27, 2019

    My ISP required me to either kick my connection before I change routers or wait 30 minutes for the lease to expire. The way they determine a change in router is through the MAC adress. Why dont you clone the MAC adress of your Netcomm to your Netgear?

     

    Im guessing you can acess the router just fine with it connected directly to your PC. From what you have written then every configuration setting to acess the network is also fine. 

     

    This leaves me to suspect that theyre employing some sort of block.