@Viper300 wrote:
The C7000 will work as the cable modem and router but one I'd have to lowere service plan to 500mb which I'm ok doing, but then we lose voice.
That explains things. Your first message didn't mention voice explicitly, although I should have guessed from the reference to the CM1150V.
I am not familiar with voice technology. I do know that 500 Mbps would be fast enough for voice and most other things.
I have no idea which Netgear boxes can do voice, beyond the CM1150V and the slightly older CM500V. (Those things often go under the "gateway" label with ither brands.) There are also modem/routers that do voice, the C7100V for example.
However, in general, experienced users like to have separate modems and routers. I was just thinking "money". After all the C7000 isn't that old.
Having two separate devices means that you have a bigger choice and more control over the kit. As you have found, you have not way of updating the firmware on the C7000. But if you put a router behind a cable modem, you get not only a bigger choice of features, you get something that you can update should new features turn up.
@Viper300 wrote:
but to your question, the C7000 cannot be used as stand alone router with a different cable modem on top of it. I wanted to use it as router function only but......
Not my question. I don't know a lot about cable modems. The technology is not widely used here in the UK. But I agree that it is hard to turn something into a router without a WAN port on the thing.
