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by manyxcxi 3749 days ago
Absolutely. I saw the announcement that this was going to happen however long ago that was (2 years?) and I just hopped on Amazon and got my own. Then I saw they upped the prices on modem rentals and chuckled to myself on the timing.
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Can you recommend a modem. I would prefer one without wifi or if with wifi, a way to disable it.
I just bought http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00AJHDZSI to use with Comcast. I've only had it for a month but haven't had any issues with it so far.
That's exactly the one I bought. I've never had a moment's issue with it. No WiFi, no IP phone, just power, a coax connection, and an ethernet jack.

Works great, I got a couple extra MB/s in speed tests and save the $10-$20/mo Comcast is charging to borrow their pieces of crap.

You have to hook up a router to it right? It just provides the upstream connection, you could of course hook your computer up to it, but how did you do it?
Correct, it's just the modem. I then connected a router for WiFi and hardwired connections.