I have fiber to the property but the router is still the property of the ISP not me. Of course they’re not very interested in it and if it breaks they never want it back but they do replace it when I call.

It’s a piece of crap though, so I actually have disabled most of the functions and put it in bridge mode, and then have my own setup, but the ISP don’t need to know that.

Spectrum around here tries to mandate that you use their combo modem/router, it was a legit PITA to get them to accept the modem their website said was supported, because god forbid they don’t get that extra $10/mo or whatever.

Frontier fiber gave us an Amazon Eero, which I promptly gave to a friend, and installed my Ubiquiti gear.

I get a free one from Verizon with FiOS that’s actually pretty decent, especially considering it’s free. Triband, the webui is decent, and aside from an issue that required rebooting every few days that got fixed pretty quickly it’s been pretty stable.

You guys rent routers? lol what. That just sounds like a massive scam unless you’re getting Ubiquiti kit or something, most ISP routers over here probably cost about £10 to manufacture

They’re just free with your internet subscription in the UK. It won’t be the most amazing thing in the world, but it’ll be some Technicolour, Netgear or D-Link thing that does dual band wifi and handle <20 clients.

If you want something better you can obviously buy your own