said by Nightfall:said by mmainprize:said by PhoenixDown:If they eliminate the $7 a month rental fee, where's the real issue?
The problem is that they can give you a modem/router combo and then lock you out of the settings. They will take control of what you can or can't do with your internet connection.
For example they could disable P2P traffic and you could not do anything about it.
So far, not a single company in the US that is handing out rental or free modems is locking out P2P traffic. Also, not a single company is handing out rental modems and locking you out of the settings. So you are just talking out of your ass on both of your points.
I never said they were locking out P2P traffic i said for example, they could.
I seem to remember just last week someone came here looking for the password to get into his new modem that he got from Charter, he had tried all the old known passwords and they had not worked, no one was able to give him a working password and he was told to contact charter people.
So like i explained above say you get a new modem / router combo from charter and you can not get into the setup of the router, you are saying you would be fine with that, i for one would not. We will see where this ends up but the only good reason for the ISP's to not allow customer owned modems and then give out modem/router combos, is to control the network and your connection.
Last week someone was talking about getting a modem router combo and when he connected his router he had trouble with his VPN connection because of the double NAT network, because of having two routers, he was asking how to disable the router in the combo unit and was told he could not.