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minus-squareunalivejoy@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·11 months agoYour ISP already leases your modem.
minus-squareSalix@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-211 months agoNot when you use your own modem I’m not going to rent Comcast’s modem/access point combo. It sucks.
minus-squareInFerNo@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·11 months agoThen clearly you are leasing it, not owning it. If your ISP allows it, as many do, you could use your own modem, and then it is indeed yours.
minus-squaregrue@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·11 months ago If your ISP allows it, as many do It really ought to be all of them. I mean, c’mon, we already decided this decades ago! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carterfone#Landmark_regulatory_decision
Your ISP already leases your modem.
Not when you use your own modem
I’m not going to rent Comcast’s modem/access point combo. It sucks.
Then clearly you are leasing it, not owning it. If your ISP allows it, as many do, you could use your own modem, and then it is indeed yours.
It really ought to be all of them. I mean, c’mon, we already decided this decades ago!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carterfone#Landmark_regulatory_decision