Every month, when your Comcast bill arrives, chances are there's a charge included for renting the combination modem/router you use for internet access. It's $10 a month, and that means you are ...

Each month, when your Comcast bill comes due, many of you pay a monthly fee for the device that provides internet access in your homes. Rental for what’s known as the Xfinity Gateway typically runs ...

Some devices are fine with Wi-Fi connection while others work best with a wired connection, but there are options for modem router combo for Comcast. So which should you buy for your place, a modem or ...

Yes, you can buy your own cable modem, and you might want to, given the excellent throughput and dead-simple setup of the Netgear C3000 WiFi Cable Modem Router. Router only supports up to 300Mbps ...

Page 3: NETGEAR Orbi Home Mesh WiFi System: Setup & Performance Page 4: NETGEAR Orbi Home Mesh WiFi System: Final Thoughts Mesh networking is starting to take a foothold in the home market, but the ...

Since last year, Comcast’s wireless gateways have by default broadcast a second signal that turns each customer’s modem and router into a public Wi-Fi hotspot. It’s all part of Comcast’s plan to ...

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. A cable modem and WiFi router are the heart and brain of ...

Q. My cable company tells me I have to lease a modem. Can I buy my own? Any advice on how I should go about that? A. In the two years since I last covered this topic here, a few things have changed in ...

I have a SMCQBR14G. We just got comcast and the modem works fine but the SMC stays registered as "disconnected" from the wan for no reason. SMC techs weren't helpful at all. The modem is the RCA ...

The arrival of gigabit fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) service has shaken up the North American Internet market in a big way. Cable companies are feeling the heat and racing to join the gigabit bandwagon, ...

A device that connects one or more users to the Internet. Also called a "gateway," it combines the modem, which accesses the ISP, and a router, which forwards traffic to the modem and distributes ...