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		antihero on Nov 17, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: List of 8000 security vulnerabilities in 1200 Wi-F... Then get your own router and use their one as a glorified modem (some ISP routers will actually have a modem mode where they act purely as a modem)

wil421 on Nov 17, 2021 | [–]

Xfinity will allow you to bring both a modem and a router. AT&T will not because their gateway/router does authentication into their network. Some people on the UniFi forums were able to pass authentication back to the gateway but it reduced speed.

brokenmachine on Nov 17, 2021 | [–]

I'm not with xfinity but that is what I do.

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