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Definitely! Comcast charges $5-10 a month to rent a cable modem, so buying your own pays off pretty quick.

• Filligree 3y ago
  They do what now? I've never heard of an ISP charging for their own equipment.
  • JohnFen 3y ago
    Yes, they do. Further, my experience with Comcast specifically is that every three months, they "forget" that I don't rent a modem from them and just start charging me the rental fee anyway. Then I have to call them up to tell them to remove the charges and stop adding new ones.
  • karaterobot 3y ago
    When Americans complain about Comcast, it's not a meme, they are actually an awful company. But for the record: If you just sign up for Comcast (XFinity, whatever) and use the internet, you are renting a modem/router combo from them for about $10 a month, in perpetuity. You can buy an off the shelf modem/router for a couple hundred bucks, and use that instead. It'll pay off in a year or two. You have to call Comcast up and activate the device, but it's otherwise a completely painless process.
    • dazilcher 3y ago
      You can use the Xfinity mobile app to activate your own modem. No call required (anymore).