Some people, like you, aren’t bothered by corporations like Spectrum snooping into their Internet usage, and being able to record everything that you do online.
They actually have three companies making them I think.
That’s the assumption, but a reply in this thread from an actual Spectrum field technician on this matter makes it seem like it hasn’t exactly panned out that way. Although that’s just the experience of one field technician.
Have to do what you have to do. Funny thing is, someone else here said they got $5 off per month for using an own-router instead of the house shitbox. In my own case, I don’t think my plan falls under the “grandfathered” category, even though I’ve been a spectrum customer for a long time. It’s too damn expensive to be grandfathered.
This is the mentality of the bulk of customers. They’re catering to the people who don’t want to mess with it. Everyone who wants anything more sophisticated should buy their own equipment.
and that’s the problem attitude that keeps us slaves. I’m near 50 and I see nothing but atrocities! you can be as lazy as you want after you help us spank the one percent! ,
You’re not alone, and as a Field Tech V, I feel your pain.
They are forcing these asinine routers upon everyone, including their business customers. When I have to swap out/upgrade a customer’s older equipment to new equipment, I have to put in one of these cloud-managed POSs and it causes all sorts of problems. I can’t change the DHCP IP address range, I can’t separate the 2.4GHz and 5.0GHz WiFi bands, I can’t turn off the firewall, or set up a DMZ. Also, these routers have 3 Ethernet ports instead of 4. These “upgrades” causes a huge headache in a lot of different situations. I’m not sure what the guy above’s damage is, but he obviously doesn’t have to deal with the problems these routers cause out in the field on a daily basis.
It really is that simple. If you want the advanced features, buy your own hardware. I recommend everybody do that anyway because it results in more reliable, higher quality connections overall in my experience. The hardware that these ISPs offer for free is mediocre at best and substandard at worst.
Here’s the thing. Spectrum isn’t going to change back. Nobody is reading this saying, hey guys… u/h_trismegistus doesn’t like the new router. Let’s scrap our plans and go back to the previous model.
And it won’t cost you $200-300 to buy a router that will give you what you need. Watch for sales and you can be sub $100.
keep on speaking out! they want you to be a lapdog and they want all of us going in chat and being rude to each other. don’t fall into they’re social engineering. let’s all talk each other up with support and friendship. down with the one percent!
I’m honestly confused, you have the ability to set your network name and password in the my spectrum app. do you mean you had 2 networks before and are now stuck with the one combined network? you can change it to one of them, I’ve seen it before, but only for your 2g OR 5g devices, and it doesnt mean your devices will be on a specific band if you name it “MySpectrumWiFi00-2G” or something similar (I’ve seen people do that and be confused) but this can save you having to reconnect some of your devices
nice. 10 examples out of almost 25 million internet subscribers. i guess it’s more than 99%. also most of these people just chose to not want to use the interface provided. if you want something fully customizable or have a certain preference. go out and buy it like everyone else
I was simply stating that the options you just showed from the My Spectrum app are available by logging into the Spectrum website…it avoids the need to install the app.
GUIs are for stupid simple people. People that know what they’re doing use the command line.
Or “controlling traffic” as at&t puts it.
Askey sagemcom and someone else.
Yeah, but the thing is, you never needed to mess with the old system either. You would set it up once with the tech present, and never see the admin screen again.
For people who wanted a tiny bit more control, but lacked technical knowledge, the admin UI was logically divided into “Basic” and “Advanced” sections. Most people never needed either, but for those who did, it was there. Now they have a similar setup in their mobile app but the “advanced settings” section is completely missing several very notable features that were always in the “advanced” section previously.
This is what makes no sense to me. Why even have the “advanced” section at all if you are going to remove a bunch of other crucial features that users who would need such a section would also require?
Why wouldn’t a different 1% fill the void once the previous 1% was eliminated? Perhaps they would be more benevolent or perhaps far worse but let’s be honest… anyone willing to make a modicum of effort lives well.
Thanks. Yeah that’s another thing…the internally managed 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz bands have been causing havoc with my IoT setup.
In reality, Spectrum isn’t making the router. They just deal with what their modem manufacturer of choice offers.