Starting Sunday, cable companies can no longer ‘rent’ you the router you own

Re:Starting Sunday, cable companies can no longer ‘rent’ you... by fingerlocks on Sunday December 20, 2020 @11:31AM (#25487381)

Is this part of PPPoE, or can you put the router in bridge mode and then connect your own hardware?

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Re:Starting Sunday, cable companies can no longer ‘rent’ you... by toast0 on Sunday December 20, 2020 @01:14PM (#25488253)

Thankfully, AT&T doesn't run PPPoE on fiber (but hush before they get any bright ideas), but even if the 'residential gateway' is in bridge mode, it's performimg a useless function for users that don't need/want it to do NAT or WiFi or whatever it does for TV.

Ethernet on one side, and ethernet on the other, a couple ms between them.

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Re:Starting Sunday, cable companies can no longer ‘rent’ you... by unstatusthequo on Sunday December 20, 2020 @12:06PM (#25487689)

I’ve neutered my AT&T fiber router with some Ubiquiti scripts:

https://community.ui.com/questions/INSTRUCTIONS-Bypass-ATT-F...

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Re:Starting Sunday, cable companies can no longer ‘rent’ you... by lgats on Sunday December 20, 2020 @12:59PM (#25488141)

Still paying the monthly fee though

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Re:Starting Sunday, cable companies can no longer ‘rent’ you... by powersnail on Sunday December 20, 2020 @12:24PM (#25487858)

From my experience, you can set the firewall to pass-through, and connect from its LAN to the WAN of your own router.

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