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What you do next depends on your cable modem company. Typically you can call your cable modem
company's support department and tell them your cable modem is hooked up. They'll normally ask for
the information mentioned above in "Before Installing Your Cable Modem." Some cable companies
also let you just open the browser on a computer that's connected to the Zoom cable modem. A setup
page comes up, and you follow the instructions.
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Go to "Now that your cable modem is connected, do this." below.
If this is a first-time cable modem installation (that is, you are NOT replacing an "old" cable
modem), do this:
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Connect a "live" coaxial cable from your cable service provider to your cable modem. (If you're not
sure a cable is live, you can see whether you get a good TV signal when that cable is used with a
working TV set-top box.) Here are some ways you can get the live cable:
Coaxial Cable
You have a cable TV cable ("coaxial cable") with a male connector on the end that isn't
connected to anything. This cable may be coming out of a wall or connected to a cable TV
jack.
There's a cable TV jack in your wall. You can connect a cable TV "coaxial cable" between that
jack and your cable modem. You may have a coaxial cable, possibly one that came with a
cable modem starter kit from your cable service provider. If you don't have a coaxial cable,
you can get one at most electronics stores. You want one with a screw-in male F connector
at each end, with a length that works for your installation.
If you don't have an available cable TV cable or wall jack, use a coaxial "T adapter" or
"splitter" available from most electronics retailers (see example at right). Make sure you get
one designed for cable modems and/or cable TV. These typically have one female IN jack
and two female OUT jacks. You can disconnect a live cable from your TV set-top box and
screw it into the IN jack of the splitter. Then connect one coaxial cable from an OUT jack to
your TV set-top box and another coaxial cable from the other OUT jack to your cable modem.
You can see that this approach uses one splitter and 2 additional coaxial cables, each of
which has male connectors on each end. Some electronics retailers carry the Zoom Cable
Modem Connection Kit which has an excellent splitter and 2 coaxial cables packaged together
at a reasonable price. You can also purchase splitters and coaxial cable separately if you
prefer to do that, perhaps because you need a special length of coaxial cable.
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Connect the supplied Ethernet cable between the cable modem LAN jack and a computer's Ethernet
jack. We recommend that you do this even if you later plan to connect the cable modem to a router.
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Connect the Zoom power cube between the Zoom cable modem and a live power jack. Make sure the
cable modem's Power Switch is ON.
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What you do next depends on your cable modem company. Typically you can call your cable modem
company's support department and tell them your cable modem is hooked up. They'll normally ask for
the information mentioned above in "Before installing your cable modem please read this." Some
Cable TV Jack