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Netgear Nighthawk RAX40 & Bell Fibe

Ragu49
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Netgear Nighthawk RAX40 & Bell Fibe

Ok How do I use the RAX40 with Bell Fibe I just have Fibe line with an ONT coming into house not ethernet or cable..

 

Model: RAX40|Nighthawk AX4 4-Stream WiFi Router
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jweaver4475
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I believe you need to connect your ONT to a bell modem. Do this by connecting one end of an ethernet cable to the ONT and the other end to the Bell modem WAN port.

Then you should operate the bell modem in 'bridge mode' with another ethernet cable connected from the bell modem LAN port to your RAX40 WAN port.

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Ragu49
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Actually was looking to not use bell modem period any ideas ho to eliminate it..

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antinode
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> How do I use the RAX40 with Bell Fibe I just have Fibe line with an
> ONT coming into house not ethernet or cable..

 

   Ask your ISP?

 

   Are you saying that you have an ONT, and it has no Ethernet port for
your Internet connection?

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Ragu49
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No i want to eliminate the HH3000 just use netgear router , so if I remover the HH3000 I'm left with fibe cable and the ONT... need something to convert ONT to ethernet..

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jweaver4475
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I think with Bell you have to use there modem, I think they call it a "Connection Hub".

It should be included with your service.

Do you have an active service with Bell?

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Ragu49
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yes and guys are using own routers without the HH3000

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jweaver4475
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It sounds like you have a DSL connection.

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jweaver4475
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I think you would be better off operaitng the HH3000 in bridge mode.

This basically makes it pass the WAN IP directly to your connected router of choice and disables all the routing features on the HH3000.

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Ragu49
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There is no bridge mode for HH3000 only option is the DMZ option and I would have to turn off HH wifi for sure but not sure if I can turn off DHCP?

 

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jweaver4475
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I think you could enable DMZ to the IP of your router.

I read that if/ when the DHCP lease is renewed it will lock up and you have to disable and re-enable the DMZ.

 

I believe I have experienced that exact issue at work, where we DMZ to a device and it would work for awhile and out of no where go offline. Then disbaling and re-enabling DMZ was the only solution. Now I understand why this was happening. This was using a Bell modem/router as well.

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