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lucliu
Aug 17, 2022Aspirant
Parental controls on C7000v2
Hello all, The C7000v2 cable modem I bought myself worked fine with the Parent Controls, and my service provider is Comcast. Recently it started to not. So I used the NETGEAR genie application to...
FR7
Aug 30, 2022Aspirant
I noticed the same thing recently with my Netgear C7000v2 box and was unable to update the firmware to the version listed on the website.
michaelkenward
Aug 30, 2022Guru - Experienced User
FR7 wrote:
I noticed the same thing recently with my Netgear C7000v2 box and was unable to update the firmware to the version listed on the website.
You will have to talk to your Internet service provider. They don't want people like you, or Netgear, messing around with your modem's firmware.
It is one of the drawbacks of those modem/router combinations.