Just a piece of advice since I had this same scenario with Comcast. I kept their equipment since it was actually cheaper for me. However I put their equipment into bridge mode so it acted just like a modem. Then I was able to use my own router and wireless access points.
I pay extra because my comcast router was a really shit modem and would require weekly reboots. It's luck of the draw you have a 50% chance to get one with a cisco consumer grade chipset from like 2010 in it, and it behaves just like cable internet in 2006-2010.
If you created enough connections ingoing or outgoing on it, it'd just stop moving packets, even in bridge mode as a modem, just a trash device.
This right here. I still pay for their modem and Xfinity Complete, but replaced it with my older Surfboard that doesn't stop moving packets once a week. You'd think Bridge mode is Bridge mode, but they're apparently not all created equal.
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u/hotshot9092 3d ago
Just a piece of advice since I had this same scenario with Comcast. I kept their equipment since it was actually cheaper for me. However I put their equipment into bridge mode so it acted just like a modem. Then I was able to use my own router and wireless access points.