Law banning “rental” fees for customer-owned routers takes effect Sunday | Ars Technica 📦

22    20 Dec 2020 15:32 by u/Dissident001

7 comments

7 u/3putt 20 Dec 2020 15:55
Fuck yes! Fuck ISPs!
5 u/Dissident001 [OP] 20 Dec 2020 15:58
Yes. Comcast makes it difficult to use your own router, they whitelist every router so you cant just swap it. My landlord is too fucking lazy to call and it's under his name, so we are stuck splitting the fee.
4 u/3putt 20 Dec 2020 16:08
Exactly you have to call every single time you want to change routers, its asinine. But thats Comcast.
2 u/Imperator 20 Dec 2020 20:36
Wow I didn't know this was a thing. Over here the ISP sends you a router for free and you get to keep it forever. However the routers are cheap crap.
2 u/Dissident001 [OP] 20 Dec 2020 21:21
in USA you pay $10 a month to rent the cheap crap
1 u/_Ruq_ 20 Dec 2020 20:13
Wow, I didn′t even know this was happening. This is great!
1 u/tMrszack 25 Dec 2020 07:46
Rental fees for customer owned routers? That's a thing?