RS 700. Do I really need a subsciption for it to work?

Netgear routers do not require any subscription to function.  There are some features which can be enabled only by subscription, such as Bitdefender Armor and Smart Parental Controls.

The also do not require use of the Nighthawk smartphone app.

You can take a Netgear WiFi router "out of the box", plug it in, and (for most ISPs**), begin using it with the WiFi credentials printed on the label.

** If the ISP requires customers to supply a user name and password, those credentials have to be entered into the router before it can connect to the ISP.

Thanks CrimpOn. We had a power outage here so that's what I suspected. So I called customer service and the fella clearly told me the subscription is why it won't show any networks even after I scan the barcode. I could not believe that. Before I could ask him prices and what I needed to do he hung up on me. I cannot find anywhere in the Nighthawk app on my phone that shows a subscription even if I wanted to do that. Although I'd like to resolve this ( the 700 was a sickenly amount of money just last April) I just patched my old LynkSys 5400 back in and it fired right back up. Thank You CrimpOn!

Hey FURRY. It's the latest Cox Cable High speed cable modem. I'm hooked up right now and online through my old LynkSys so I know it works. I could never get past the Nighthawk app attempting to connect to the 700. So I had little to no access to anything. After scanning the barcode on top it never even showed the network name written on the label. Maybe the power surge took out something? Not sure. I hope not though. Boocoo bucks for that thing. 

Thank You FURRY! I cannot at the moment. But I saved the link you posted into my favorites. Thanks again! Will post here as soon as I can have a go at this!