Opinion on Comcast Modem and Routers In General

Brendan_14 · Jul 25, 2013

So, I'm finally renting a house at college after two years and I'm going to sign up with Comcast, regardless of all the difficulties I find with them. Right now I can get a deal that'll give me TV/Internet for pretty cheap, with the internet speed being 50/10 mbps (I think). My question to the community is what I should do about the modem and router.

I can rent their modem, but I don't think it comes with a router for wifi (I'll have two roommates, so it'll be three of us total, even if I'm on the ethernet). I'm reaching out to you all to ask if I should rent a modem or buy my own (since I don't need voice, and the options open up from what I read) and then what router I should get if I choose either option.

It's not like I'm new to computers (I built the one I'm using now) or networking, but I want to make sure I'm not gonna throttle my speed at some point.

*Another thought in the back of my head is that I'm also a JDownloader2 user, and want to finally be able to use the reconnect feature, if that even matters in regard to what router I get vs where I get the modem from.

Thanks guys.

wacabletech · Jul 25, 2013

You'll be hard pressed to find an N or AC class device that cannot handle 50 Mb/s on the wireless. and 50 Mb/s only requires 100Mb/s Ethernet to cover it, so I am not seeing a reason with that. however Comcast dory [all in one] devices have horrid wireless range, and are fairly limited in what the user can set up, so if you plan to do any sort of intermediate to advanced networking, get your own router. If your just going to do beginner stuff then it would work ok except the range. Its not just comcasts all in ones that are this way even the ones you can BUY are fairly inept when you get down to it.

IE I work for comcast and have a meter that I have to upload data on every day I can do it over coax or ethernet, and I chose ethernet, I have a cable by my front door and when I go home in it goes and the upload goes off. When I upgraded to use their phone [for the longest time vonage was cheaper for me] they gave me an SMC dory, and I could not set an IP into DMZ on that device at that time and they do not tell us what ports the meters use but they MUST be forwarded for the meter to connect via ethernet, my wife also got kicked off the wireless in the bedroom about 50 foot form where the router is. So off to best buy aI went picked up a dual band netgear for about $85 and she no longer gets kicked off and I put the meter in the DMZ by reserving an IP based off its mac and then reserving that IP for DMZ,now the meter does its thing with no erroring out, my wife does not get kicked off and the house is a peaceful home. Except when she decides even though I have been at work all day I must pay attention to her and not relax and nags me, sheesh.

My advise, consider your style on rent versus purchase modem, even if you buy a modem DO NOT get an all in one, get a separate modem and side car router, and rock on.

Brendan_14 · Jul 25, 2013

That's along the lines of what I was thinking about doing.I just didn't know if I needed a specific type or brand of router that would work with Comcast or something like that.

wacabletech · Jul 25, 2013

Nope router it s pretty much a router as long as you don't try to buy a combo DSL modem router and then use it you shoudl be fine.

eb121209 · Jan 21, 2014

wacabletech :

You'll be hard pressed to find an N or AC class device that cannot handle 50 Mb/s on the wireless. and 50 Mb/s only requires 100Mb/s Ethernet to cover it, so I am not seeing a reason with that. however Comcast dory [all in one] devices have horrid wireless range, and are fairly limited in what the user can set up, so if you plan to do any sort of intermediate to advanced networking, get your own router. If your just going to do beginner stuff then it would work ok except the range. Its not just comcasts all in ones that are this way even the ones you can BUY are fairly inept when you get down to it.

IE I work for comcast and have a meter that I have to upload data on every day I can do it over coax or ethernet, and I chose ethernet, I have a cable by my front door and when I go home in it goes and the upload goes off. When I upgraded to use their phone [for the longest time vonage was cheaper for me] they gave me an SMC dory, and I could not set an IP into DMZ on that device at that time and they do not tell us what ports the meters use but they MUST be forwarded for the meter to connect via ethernet, my wife also got kicked off the wireless in the bedroom about 50 foot form where the router is. So off to best buy aI went picked up a dual band netgear for about $85 and she no longer gets kicked off and I put the meter in the DMZ by reserving an IP based off its mac and then reserving that IP for DMZ,now the meter does its thing with no erroring out, my wife does not get kicked off and the house is a peaceful home. Except when she decides even though I have been at work all day I must pay attention to her and not relax and nags me, sheesh.

My advise, consider your style on rent versus purchase modem, even if you buy a modem DO NOT get an all in one, get a separate modem and side car router, and rock on.

The modem/routers that Comcast provides do NOT have horrid wireless range, the range is actually pretty good.

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