alt Hacker NewsXfinity won't give folks in certain locales (maybe everywhere in the US?) unlimited bandwidth unless they use their modem/router. This seems like a good reason that practice should be illegal.
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I was thinking about this with respect to the new uncomplicated no-contract service with no caps they started offering:
https://www.slashdot.org/story/25/06/26/2124252/comcasts-new...
Apparently you can get 1/2gbit ethernet only modems without wifi. You don't save any money over using their equipment.
As far as I’m aware, Xfinity fiber customers have to use the provided “Xfinity Wi-Fi Gateway” and cannot enable bridge mode.
If anyone knows a way around this, please share! I want to connect my Xfinity ONT directly to my UniFi router.
I use my own modem/router with them, but I have to pay an extra $30/mo for unlimited download. Complete garbage. I wish there was competition; Comcast is my only realistic option in San Francisco.
This practice, and fear of the exact sort of nonsense in this article, plus wanting to keep my wifi bandwidth free for the network I actually connect to, is why I'm still on AT&T DSL in my area, at 50 mbps. Comcast is available at up to gigabit, and they can keep it.
So use their router, but connect your own to it. Then turn off the WiFi in their equipment
Exactly why I rent the modem but it sits unplugged in the closet lol
I use a cellular connection for my internet, but my apartment building is wired with Xfinity, and probably 90% of people use it.
Naturally, there is no way for me to opt out of this.
If you want to remove the 1.2TB data cap, you can either pay $25/mo and get Xfinity's gateway router "included" OR pay $30/mo to use your own modem/router.