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Old router network showing up on new router network - Nighthawk R7800
Hello - looking for some help. I recently purchased a new Netgear router to replace an older model. I set up the new using the same network name as I used with my last. We created a new password f...
Hello all - found the souce of the issue. The cable modem had a wifi network built into it that I had set up a long time ago, before I got the new router. That is the source of the networks that we don't want active. I have been able to disable that fuction on the modem while keeping my Netgear router active. Thank you very much for the time and ideas that helped us figure it out. Thanks!
ourgang309 wrote:
We need these old networks gone completely as they do not have any of the parental controls set up for them. We have tried forgetting the networks on each of our connected devices but they keep showing up in our network lists and we can still connect to them.
Is your old router still connected to your network (and powered on)?
I should have included this in my first post. No, the older router is not plugged and powered on. I believe it's still in the house but it's in a closet or a box or something.