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AC1900 WiFi Cable Modem Router Model C7000v2 Bandwidth Capped
Hello, in an attempt to fix issue's I was having over about 2 weeks of my internet connecting poorly (I would maintain "some" connection but it would frequently be drastically a downgrade from the se...
Well, here is one for the books.
All the websites and forum posts say to enter your Pi-hole's IP address as the DNS server in your Netgear router's setting. That is absolutely NOT true!
Every post said "Go to Internet > DNS > enter in your Pi-Hole's IP addresss (in my case, 192.168.1.2.)
That is NOT the case with Netgear routers!
Instead, I had to use Public DNS servers. I used 1.1.1.1 and 1.0.0.1.
Then, go to Advanced > Setup > LAN Setup > DISABLE DHCP.
Enable DHCP in your Pi-hole. Once you do that, then only will your deviecs on your network be told that your DHCP server is your Pi-hole IP address AND your DNS server will also be handed out my your Pi-hole!
Now when I run a "ipconfig /all" in my Windows box, I see that Pi-hole (192.168.1.2) is the DHCP server AND the DNS server.
Everything is working as intended now.
Sheesh, Netgear! Get your stuff together!
Problem solved! I hop this helps someone in the future on Google 🙂
I haven't been able to get home and do what you said yet but I just talked to a comcast tech and he said the max wifi I can get over 2.4ghz is 60..... I've never heard this before. I feel like he is lieing l. Anybody else hear of this?
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Thank you.
JeffJ84 wrote:
I haven't been able to get home and do what you said yet but I just talked to a comcast tech and he said the max wifi I can get over 2.4ghz is 60..... I've never heard this before. I feel like he is lieing l. Anybody else hear of this?