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The Hidden Cost of Your New Xfinity Router

Posted by timothy on from the opt-out-options-obviate-opposition dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The battle over Comcast's public WiFi network that is hosted on your cable modem continues. Comcast responded to Speedify's earlier power measurements by rushing them a new Cisco cable modem. The new modem proved to be more power hungry than the last, and also introduced some tricky IPv6 problems that caused major headaches for the team."

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  1. Re:Crapfinity by the_skywise · · Score: 3, Funny

    Ptphpht.. I switched to Geico for DSL and save $300 for half the time...