Comcast, like most cable ISP services, provides most of its subscribers with a basic all-in-one modem solution that combines an Internet gateway with a router. If you have a more complicated home ...

Comcast’s 18 million Xfinity internet customers will have two good reasons to keep renting their modems from the media giant in 2020. While Xfinity users could skip the rental fees by snagging a ...

I like to think of myself as an expert when it comes to broadband -- after all, I've been writing about it for over 6 years. Yet, despite my expertise, I have carried around a shameful secret: I ...

When Comcast flipped the switch that turned 50,000 of its customers' newer wireless routers into public hotspots on Tuesday, it took many of its subscribers by surprise. While some Comcast customers ...

Comcast is being sued for forcing private routers to become public hotspots. In 2013, Comcast introduced Xfinity hotspots, which used customers’ existing Comcast routers to create a public internet ...

Comcast customer Ronaldo Boschulte didn’t know exactly what he was getting when the company swapped his malfunctioning modem for a new one. The cable modem doubles as a Wi-Fi router—that much he was ...

Comcast already offers Xfinity Wi-Fi access points that it maintains itself that are part of the CableWiFi alliance, which claims to offer over 150,000 hotspots in the US. Comcast piloted this new ...