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Tio1
Aug 06, 2021Aspirant
Buy a cable modem router
Hi community people; I have a cable/satellite box, and my TV is connected with a HDMI cable. I would like to buy a cable modem router, model C 7800 Nighthawk. My question is, how to connect to the r...
- Aug 07, 2021
C7800 or newer CAX80/30 gateways needs Cable service with ISPs such as Xfinity/Comcast, Cox, Spectrum, etc.
It needs to be directly connect to ISP cable and will NOT work with Satellite providers such as Dish/DirecTV, etc
antinode
Aug 06, 2021Guru
> I have a cable/satellite box, [...]
Thanks for that detailed description. Connected to what?
> I would like to buy a cable modem router, model C 7800 Nighthawk.
> [...]
Why? Are you connected to a cable-TV ISP?
> [...] Via HDMI or Coax cable
It uses a coaxial cable from a cable-TV ISP.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RTFM
Visit http://netgear.com/support , put in your model number, and look
for Documentation. Get the User Manual (at least). Read.
"satellite" makes me think that you're looking in the wrong place.
antinode
Aug 06, 2021Guru