Hi! I had a quick question. I have a nighthawk CAX80 two in one router mode, but I also have a arris surfboard sb8200 modem that I don't use since the CAX80 works as both a router and modem. I was curious though, would it be possible to use the cax80 router modem as a router and the Arris surfboard sb8200 as a modem for faster internet speeds? Or would it not make much of a difference? Thank you!
> [...] would it be possible to use the cax80 router modem as a router > and the Arris surfboard sb8200 as a modem for faster internet speeds? > [...]
Not unless you can find a WAN/Internet Ethernet port on the CAX80. If there's no way to connect a different modem to the CAX80, then there's not much to be done.
> [...] Or would it not make much of a difference? [...]
Is there anything in the modem specifications for these devices which suggests that it would matter? Is one DOCSIS 3.0, while the other is DOCSIS 3.1, for example?
If you're looking for an experiment to run, then you could try connecting a computer directly to the SB8200, and compare the results with the same computer connected directly to the CAX80 in modem-only mode. You could, at least, compare the modems that way.
I have a nighthawk CAX80 two in one router mode...
You have posted your message in the section of this community given over to Nighthawk WiFi Routers. (This is easily done, given Netgear's complicated community structure.)
Many questions apply to different types of device, so there may be useful responses here, but modems have different features from plain routers, so you might get more help, and find earlier questions and answers specific to your device, in the appropriate section for your hardware. That's probably here:
