Buy an approved third-party router
The most effortless path, obviously, is to just dump Comcast's modem completely. PCWorld supporter Eric Geier gets into the stray pieces. Shockingly, Comcast makes the procedure basic from its end too.
To start with, check Comcast's site to see whether your current link modem is lapsing, as Comcast may not let you know. A more seasoned modem might limp your premium-broadband administration. Continue to Comcast's devoted site to purchase another link modem. (Cox has its own particular rundown of good modems, as times Warner Cable.)
On the Comcast site, you'll discover costs as low as $70 (new from Amazon) for the Arris/Motorola SB6121 no frills modem. (On the low end, obviously, you'll have to supply a different switch.) Have a gander at the specs, as well: the SB6121 can exchange 172 Mbits/s down and transfer up to 131 Mbits/s. That is all that anyone could need for most little families, particularly if your administration is just appraised at, say, 16 Mbits/s. Yet, in the event that you're considering moving up to the Extreme 150 level, for instance, that may push it a bit. The $90 Arris SB6141 downloads up to 343 Mbits/s at once.
You can likewise pay more, on the off chance that you wish, to purchase a genuine entryway with incorporated switch abilities, including the latest 802.11ac innovation for higher-transfer speed remote gushing and MoCA capacity for utilizing your current urge keeps running as wired systems administration links.
It's genuinely sure the outsider portals on the Comcast site won't 10.0.0.1 xfinity login page abruptly grow Xfinity WiFi capacities. Basically purchase Comcast's low-end prescribed modem and append your own particular switch to it—it is possible that one you effectively possess, or another model. (Here's the PCWorld gathering of the best 802.11ac switches of 2013.)
The most irritating piece of the procedure might restore your current switch, and calling in your new switch's MAC deliver to guarantee it can be recognized by your link supplier.
In the long run, obviously, any new link modem you buy will itself end up outdated. That doesn't seem as though it will happen at any point in the near future, in any case. Last Halloween, CableLabs discharged the determinations for DOCSIS 3.1, which sets the phase for walloping 10-Gbit/s associations. As Light Reading notes, end-to-end arrangement preliminaries will probably start in 2016. Also, most link administrators 10.0.0.1 are considering DOCSIS 3.1 with regards to a reality where video is disregarded altogether IP streams, which might be far later on.
Up until now, Comcast hasn't given any sign that it will punish clients for not receiving its Xfinity WiFi switch. At the end of the day, you can quit providing an open WiFi hotspot, and still exploit other Xfinity hotspots in airplane terminals and somewhere else. (Or on the other hand Starbucks, so far as that is concerned.) And with 4G cell designs getting to be less expensive, there's dependably the alternative of tying to your telephone, as well.
The main issue, nonetheless, is that owning your own particular link modem enables you to spare cash and control your own particular security. Furthermore, if Comcast's new Xfinity WiFi hotspot arrange weirds you out, that is another motivation to switch.