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R7000, Fiber (CenturyLink) and router switch
I have a Netgear R7000/AC1900 router, I'm trying to plug in the ethernet cable that goes into the CenturyLink router that has the connection to fiber. I would like to replace the CenturyLink router ...
WayneD214 wrote:
I have a Netgear R7000/AC1900 router, I'm trying to plug in the ethernet cable
that goes into the CenturyLink router that has the connection to fiber.
You are trying to plug the R7000 into the CenturyLink router?
Tiy shgoukd be able to plug the R7000 into whatever CenturyLink uses to deliver the Internet to you. What is that?
Remember, you don't just plug the router into the Internet. You turn the router on after you plug it in. And you should reset the router before you connect it to a different Internet service. You need to get it to forget any past settings.
The CenturyLink/Quantum router has a Cat5 cable coming from the wall going into LAN/WAN port. Above that are 4 LAN ports, a WiFi setup is also available.
WayneD214 wrote:
The CenturyLink/Quantum router ....
Does this have a model number? Google finds too many devices that could have that description.
Start at the beginning. How does the Internet reach you?
Talk of "fibre" is meaningless. Every Internet service has fibre links somewhere, even if they are out on the network miles from you. ISPs love to put the "F" label on everything, even when the bit that reaches you is a copper cable.
If it does have fibre to you, then the bit at your end could be an optical network terminal (ONT). This may have a LAN/Ethernet port that you can simply plug into your Netgear router. Then you just need to get the settings from CenturyLink.
By the way I assume that we are talking about the R7000 router and not the A7000|Nighthawk AC1900 WiFi USB Adapter - USB 3.0 listed in your footer has nothing to do with this and you just clicked the first thing that popped up when you wrote your message.
The CenturyLink router is a CenturyLink C4000XG, fiber coes into the garage to the panel beside the circuit breaker panel, this panel also has the lawn sprinkler controller. There are a half-dozen Cat5 cables going out to various wallplates around the house. Originally I was hoping I could get a mesh system and leave the main unit in the garage and wire a satellite or two nodes using the cat5 cables but our house doesn't have that configuration<crap>.
WayneD214 wrote:
The CenturyLink router is a CenturyLink C4000XG, fiber coes into the garage to the panel beside the circuit breaker panel, this panel also has the lawn sprinkler controller. There are a half-dozen Cat5 cables going out to various wallplates around the house.
So, the CenturyLink is the router – or rather the modem router – that feeds the panel that connects to all of that stuff?
If so, then if you want to use the R7000 as a router, standard practice is to put the C4000XG into bridge (modem only) mode.
WAN Settings - Advanced Modem Setup | CenturyLink
Then plug the R7000 into that use that to feed the panel with those half-dozen Cat5 cables.
It is when you set up the R7000 that you worry about the Internet settings. With luck the Internet setup wizard will recognise what it needs. Netgear should have set it up to work with common ISPs. As FURRYe38 pointed out early on, that is something for the ISP.
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Originally I was hoping I could get a mesh system and leave the main unit in the garage and wire a satellite or two nodes using the cat5 cables but our house doesn't have that configuration<crap>.I don't understand that bit. If the building's network feeds back to the wall panel, then satellites in AP mode would work. Some Mesh systems, including Netgear's Orbi, also allow wired backhaul. But that might not play nicely with the R7000, which isn't Mesh wifi.
Ditch the R7000 and replace it with a true Mesh system and you might achieve what you want.
Yes, this is the r7000 router not the USB 3.0 adapter.