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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!
Got it. Will do so and follow up wtih results from there. Thanks much.
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!