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CAX 30 and Time Machine BAckup
I have a CAX 30 Modem/Router with a USB Drive connected formatted with MacOS Extended GUID Partition Scheme. The drive is visible when I mount it using smb://readyshare or smb://routerlogin.net, I don't see the drive in the Time Machine System Preference. Setup takes me to the AirPort configuration utility. The Mac is running MacOS 12.6.5 Monterey (current version). The KB support article at https://www.netgear.com/support/product/time_machine explains the process that I followed. The KB Article at https://kb.netgear.com/21360/How-do-I-set-up-Time-Machine-backups-to-the-USB-drive-on-my-NETGEAR-router also gives detailed instructions. The screenshots don't match the current MacOS version. The KB article at https://kb.netgear.com/000061057/Which-older-features-are-discontinued-for-my-NETGEAR-router does not list the CAX 30 as having this feature discontinued. The router is running firmware version V1.4.11.2 which is a downgrade based on advice from Netgear technical support due to connection issues. Thank you in advance for any information anyone can provide about this.C6300 DNS issue
Modem-router worked perfectly for nine months, until I (unwisely, it turns out) decided to turn it off for a month when I went out of town. When I came back and turned it back on, I found the modem was still getting a signal from the ISP (all lights solid), and the computer (Mac) was still getting a signal from the router (both via ethernet cable and wifi), but the computer was unable to access the internet. Multiple reboots of all components, resetting modem -- nothing helped. Finally I discovered that running a ping test with an IP address was successful, but doing the same with a domain name failed. Hence likely a DNS issue in the modem. Any ideas, suggestions? (A different modem works fine with the same ISP and computer, so the problem is in the Netgear modem.)
