Make no mistake, this is 100% going to be Comcast’s alternative to more expensive surveillance options a la Flock, or workplace presence sensor arrays.
Make no mistake, this is 100% going to be Comcast’s alternative to more expensive surveillance options a la Flock, or workplace presence sensor arrays.
Regardless of the basic privacy invasion that we all know Comcast is doing. Buy your own cable modem and router. Comcast charges you to use theirs, so they pay for themselves in a couple years.
It’s always been a ripoff from the start. The modem / router is far cheaper than whatever they charge you to rent it over a year. Additionally they were broadcasting public wifi hotspots from your rented modem for a while (probably still are) and now this. Having said that, walk into any random friend’s house, and what will you see? A big stupid rented Comcast modem.
They used to charge you more for unlimited data if you didn’t use their modem. Renting their modem plus getting unlimited data was $30/month, but just getting unlimited data with your own modem was $50/month.
Not relevant any more though, as (at least in my area) they completely removed the data caps.
I’m so glad I have a local ISP that provides 10Gbps for cheaper than Comcast’s 1Gbps.
Haven’t seen that one. Everywhere I’ve been they tack on $5 a month or so to have their router. Last one I bought was $80 2 years ago, so it’s already paid for itself.
Their pricing can differ by region. Not every region got the data caps back when they rolled thay out.
It also depends on competition - if there’s a lot of competition in your area, Comcast will have better deals compared to if you live somewhere where Comcast is the only option.
I used to live in an apartment that had an exclusivity deal with Comcast (residents were only allowed to use Comcast for internet service). Now I live somewhere in the same county where there’s three different fiber providers in addition to Comcast, and their prices here are noticeably cheaper vs the old apartment,
I tried… Comcast would “forget” the modem 3 times a month and would have to call and read them the MAC address again etc… fuck Comcast
So glad I was able to get an alternate ISP. A good chunk of my life, Comcast was the only high speed ISP in the area.
If alternatives to Comcast were available was something I have been willing to pay higher rent for in my life.
What if you just use it as a pass through by plugging it into their router and then wrap theirs in foil?
I did have my own router and wifi at the time never wrapped theirs in foil tho… but I suppose why not… fear of overheating I suppose
Probably a modem problem honestly. I’ve been on and off comcast a few times and 3 different modems over the years. Only issue I’ve had were when my old ones got too out dated.
Possible that one was too new at the time but they claimed to support it was at the start of docsis 3.1 iirc as I had a similar issue with an older docsis 3.0 first