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>I had to add $30 to my bill >It’s $25 to use their modem and router Honestly this is the biggest farce of the whole caps situation. Forcing people to overpa
by iotku 6y ago
>I had to add $30 to my bill
>It’s $25 to use their modem and router
Honestly this is the biggest farce of the whole caps situation.
Forcing people to overpay to rent their crappy modems because it's $5/month LESS than using your own equipment which doesn't get benefits such as particular customer support or replacements. (If something is wrong with your service they'll likely blame your equipment)
Doesn't cost any more to turn off data metering on your own modem, it's just an incentive to kill the market of people having their own (often better) modems which otherwise would cost less in the long term.
I suspect it's just so they have a higher chance of padding their "xfinitywifi" network spamming more than anything.
- localhost 6y agoI would imagine this is to reduce their cost of supporting random devices on their network by creating a financial disincentive for people to put them there in the first place. Still sucks though because I upgraded my modem so I can use their 1Gbps service (which has been great in my neighborhood) to avoid renting and now renting is cheaper ... sometimes you can't win.