Never used Netgear’s modems but I use their routers and love them.

Just curious Konata why you think you need two ports on a modem. Most modems only have one ethernet port. The ones that have two ports, to my knowledge, are for gigabit internet and you are required to get a second IP address from the provider and the two ethernet lines aggregate to provide the gigabit speeds. That second port is not for just hooking up another computer. Of course we are talking modems only, not all in one modem/routers which of course would have extra ports.

If I’m misunderstanding your need for two ports, please disregard, I just didn’t want you to make the wrong purchase. If that second port is indeed needed just to hook up a second computer, what you want instead of a two port modem, is the modem above, and either a small 4 port switch to give you a few extra jacks, or better yet a router which will have 4 or more ports and the ability for WiFi if you need it. Feel free to email me if you have any other questions.

HRK: coming out of the modem, I attach a router that I use for the house. I also attach a second router that is dedicated for the solar system monitor and connects to a third party. That second router is behind the modem firewall but a peer to the house router (hopefully providing some protection to the house devices).

Comcast allows for both routers to be connected to the modem. There modem I think has 4 LAN ports.

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Originally posted by konata88:
HRK: coming out of the modem, I attach a router that I use for the house. I also attach a second router that is dedicated for the solar system monitor and connects to a third party. That second router is behind the modem firewall but a peer to the house router (hopefully providing some protection to the house devices).

I've no idea what "a peer to the house router" means, but you're doing it the hard way, IMO.

Single router. One WAN port. Multiple (two or more) LAN ports that can be configured to be separate LANs. Each LAN port can route only to/from the Internet, but not to one another.

Another way to accomplish the same end is VLANs.

It's not hard at all. I had 2 LAN ports coming out of the modem. I had two routers. Just add LAN cable and done. All of 5 minutes to setup.

Yes, technically I could perhaps do this with a single router. But I could and wanted to physically separate the traffic, combined at the modem only. House devices and the solar device - completely separate subnets until the modem (which is the bottleneck regardless).

Netgear and Moto both have modems supporting 2+ LAN ports. No issue other than some incremental cost.

This is where you guys call me overly paranoid and overthinking things again.

I think the broadcast TV is the over the air tv. So you get f’d twice. I have fios at home and going on 11 trouble free years. I have no choice but to get Comcast at my boat and it’s a never ending battle.