Cox gigablast and AirPort Extreme 802.11ac
Hi there,
I recently upgraded to cox gigablast internet, they provided me with a (terrible) modem, so I bought my own modem. However when I try to use my MB8600 modem with Airport Extreme, it doesn't work. I've tried two models of modem (CM1100 and MB8600) with the same result.
Here's the info that I have.
I can connect a computer to the modem directly through crossover cable to the modem and it's fine.
I can connect it as modem -> airport extreme -> computer via cable and it's fine.
I can't connect via wireless, it connects to the airport, but says there is no internet, at this point I can't even connect to the modems homepage (192.168.100.1)
If I unplug the modem from the cable, reboot then I can connect wirelessly to the airpot and see the modems homepage.
I'm not a network guy, but my feeling is that when the modem connects to cox, they configure it in a way that the airport extreme does not like (maybe ipv6).
I could just buy another router, but, I thought I'd ask here first to see if anyone knows the magic combination of options to get it to work. My experience with routers before the airport was pretty negative in general only made acceptable by flashing to custom firmware, which just shouldn't be necessary.
I did a search, and found a few posts from a few years ago, but they're all a few years ago and these people seem to be having different symptoms to me, perhaps that's because it was the early days of ipv6.
Thanks y'all.
iMac 27", macOS 10.13