said by Hank:Iyashii - I whole heartily agree. I don't want them fooling with my equipment so I use a separate modem and router. Plus I want something that I can depend on.
This was another reason I decided to choose my own setup. Setting up the firewall to block the open ports and configuration features made me feel uncomfortable. These things should be options. We can't really disable them without literally replacing these devices with our own.
Also having open source router firmware opens up worlds of capabilities that don't exist with the basic modem/routers frontier provides.