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minus-square🖖USS-Ethernet@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·4 months agoThen I guess they need to start providing the hardware for free, because if I paid for it…it’s MINE and I can do what I want with it.
minus-squarerichmondez@lemdro.idlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down2·4 months agoTell that to console manufacturers. Or Apple for that matter.
minus-square🖖USS-Ethernet@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 months agoThat’s why I own neither of those things.
minus-squareunalivejoy@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down9·4 months agoYour ISP already leases your modem.
minus-squareSalix@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·edit-24 months agoNot when you use your own modem I’m not going to rent Comcast’s modem/access point combo. It sucks.
minus-squarelaurelraven@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 months agoOut of curiosity, what do you recommend? Last time I went looking the options sucked (though part of that was we still had a landline and that seriously limits your choices)
minus-squareInFerNo@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·4 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-up3·4 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
Then I guess they need to start providing the hardware for free, because if I paid for it…it’s MINE and I can do what I want with it.
Tell that to console manufacturers. Or Apple for that matter.
That’s why I own neither of those things.
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.
Out of curiosity, what do you recommend? Last time I went looking the options sucked (though part of that was we still had a landline and that seriously limits your choices)
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