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Originally Posted by FizzyWater
I think this has been hinted at by some of those who have posted already, but I'd say the difference is that the US telecom industry is more interested in nickle-and-diming its customers to death.
So they offer us the privilege (*coughcough*) of being able to rent a separate wireless router from them and make a point to imply gloom-and-doom to those who chose to buy their own ("When you rent your wireless router from us, you'll have access to our customer service expertise when you have problems with your wifi service." Actually, it's more likely to be phrased as a negative - "We won't be able to help you if you have problems").
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I stopped renting a modem from Comcast when I found out their modem was incompatible with the internet speed that I was suppose to be receiving. The modem I bought was specifically marketed to be used with Comcast. And thankfully they gave me no problems about getting things set up on their end to communicate with it. I did have to get one month extra rental change removed from my next bill. I've always had my own wi-fi routers, but I hardwire everything capable of it. And use 5 GHz band for everything capable of that.