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Comment by bscphil | Hacker News Reader

That's kind of surprising, actually, I'd expect a bunch of techy types to be running their own routers or at least to have manually configured their router. At least, assuming everyone in the building has Comcast as an ISP, I'd expect the number of xfinitywifi APs to be inversely related to the number of Comcast employees who live there.

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I'm a techie type and have one of those comcast modems. I also have a descent Ubiquiti setup that rides behind it, but I'm kind of shoehorned into using their provided modem or alternatively paying for a modem myself and then paying another $35/month for "unlimited data" (Really crappy comcast policy but that's beside the point).

Long story short, this modem will reset itself and require me to not only become aware that it's once again broadcasting the "xfinitywifi" hotspot, but to also redownload the xfinity app, configure the app with my information and try to remember where they buried the setting to disable this "feature". After disabling it somehow takes up to 24 hours to actually happen....

Have you taken into account that if you own your own modem, you aren't paying Comcast's monthly modem rental fee?

In most areas, the modem rental is $14/month. Adding unlimited is $11/month, for a total of $25/month.

In most areas, adding unlimited to your own modem is $30/month.

Thus, in most areas, switching to your own modem with unlimited costs $5/month more.

It was next to a large call centre so "techy types" is pushing it for most of them

Indeed they were surprised I DIDN'T want a Comcast modem, instead opting for a Surfboard/PFsense combo setup

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