I use Frontier and somehow they aren’t charging me a router fee, but I’ve seen a lot of complaints on DSLReport from folks who are getting hit with this and have had a hell of a time fighting it. I also don’t use their crappy router anyway. Not only is it a piece of junk, but they can remotely manage it which I just find wrong. They have remotely reset it to factory on more than one occasion at which point my Wi-Fi was reset to an insecure state for a brief time until I reconfigured it. Yeah, fuck that shit. I don’t want them “remotely managing” anything for me aside from the ONT (which they do own and I have no way to configure).
I use a Ubiquiti USG3P router, and you know what it took for it to start working? I had to fucking plug it into the Ethernet port on the ONT. Pretty crazy, right?
But anyway, Frontier sucks, but the alternative for me is Comcast… which sucks even more. While I can get higher speeds through Comcast for better rates they aren’t symmetrical (what’s the point of Gigabit download speeds if the upload is capped at like 50Mbps), and I’m also capped at 1TB/month which is bullshit. I get 200/200 through Frontier which isn’t great, but at least it’s unmetered (and speeds are not subject to the whims of other customers in my area).
