A modest modem (I kinda dig Netgear modems.□□♂️□□♂️□□♂️) and prolly a gaming router (possibly mesh system). Honestly, if you & your family don't use a lot of bandwidth per month, I would STRONGLY recommend you buy your own equipment. Never were charged.but they "encouraged" us to consider XFI complete. I game often (Steam games & "updates" are extremely large!!!) and when my kids were in high school they and my wife used HELLA data every month!!! Yes.we usually were over the data threshold. I've had their bottom of the barrel modem, a number of Zoom modems, a Netgear modem with telephony, the XB7 and now the XB8. Sooooooo, I think someone already covered this but I'll take my stab at it: I've been with Comcast (Xfinity!?!?!) for roughly 10 years. Also note that Comcast doesn't trouble shoot connectivity issues for customers with their own router and modem like they would when you use their 1st party gear Please note that using your own equipment doesn't really save you money if you need unlimited data from them since unlimited is $30 to have when you use your own gear vs $25 for the XFI complete which gives you their gateway and no data cap to worry about. If you go lower than that from a budget standpoint you will be better off just using their gateway. I would budget for roughly 350-450 dollars to get your own equipment that is equal to/ better than the gateway they provide. You will then also need a router if you don't have one. As far as a modem goes your gunna wanna get one that is DOCIS 3.1 compliant so something like the ARRIS Surfboard SB8200 is good or you can get its newer cousin the S33 which is what I own. Well if you want to have internet service from them then yes.
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