I ignored the messages for a bit out of laziness. To celebrate, Comcast wanted me to “upgrade your cable modem for free”. In short, DOCSIS upgrades permit faster download/upload speeds. Lesson #1: Negotiation is the first way to get rid of your Comcast modem rental fee.Ī year or so later, I started receiving voice mail that Comcast was upgrading to DOCSIS 3.0 (more recently DOCSIS 3.1). I called Comcast customer service, and threatened to drop the service unless they stopped charging me the rental fee. That is, until they increased their rental fee again (they do this every year or so now). I couldn’t find any for sale online at the time and thought they could only be had from Comcast. I was kind of irritated, so I started searching and found a list of Comcast Xfinity supported modems & routers. That’s right – for the privilege of paying them $40 a month for internet service, I also had to pay $3 per month to rent the equipment to do it (that price has now skyrocketed to $15 per month recently for a standard xFi gateway and $25 per month for xFi Complete). I didn’t know it at the time of installation, but on my first bill, I noticed that Comcast started charging me $3 to rent this modem. As part of the installation, Comcast put in a Netgear cable modem that also dubbed as a Wi-Fi router. When I first moved to my existing home, I signed up for Comcast Xfinity high-speed Internet, with wireless networking (Wi-Fi). How I Found 3 Ways to Get Rid of Comcast Xfinity Modem Rental Fee
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I’ve written more broadly on how to get rid of your ISP modem rental fee (if you’re not with Comcast).
If you don’t have Comcast and have another Internet service provider, the same advice may also apply. If you have a long-seeded disdain for Comcast or other profit-driven corporate giants, like I do, you will enjoy this how-to story.
It’s also a tale of how Comcast has increased their xFi gateway rental fee to a whopping $15 per month ($25/month for “xFi Complete”) over the last few years, in order to turn it into a profitable revenue stream for the company.
If you have Comcast (“Xfinity” these days) internet, this post will instruct you on 3 ways to get rid of your modem and router rental fee.
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