Yeah I just checked and I’m paying $10 a month for it. How much would a good modem cost?

I think Spectrum gives you the modem for free, and charges you a monthly fee for the router. They never asked for it back, so I still have their modem lying around somewhere.

The rented routers are even worse than they seem, because they often reappropriate the guest wifi in order to transmit their SpectrumFreeWifi or whatever the ISP calls it when they provide free wifi coverage to customers across cities. Since most customers don't know that their rented router is providing a separate wifi signal to people nearby, the number of wifi signals in a given location is doubled, with half of them requiring login via an ISP to use.