If you want to buy your own modem, you'll likely need one your cable company officially supports. Sometimes you can get away with another option, but more often they must approve. Here's where you can ...

Consumer Tested Ratings and PropelRC have released their 2026 rankings of the best cable modems, identifying top models for speed, stability, and cost savings over ISP rentals. The Hitron DOCSIS 3.1 ...

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If you have home internet, you’ll likely have been sent a towering internet box we call a cable modem. Seemingly innocuous, that modem can cost you big time over the years as you usually have to pay ...

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The best cable modems reduce your monthly bills since you won’t have to pay your ISP to rent a modem from them. By investing in a modem of your own upfront, those monthly costs won’t add up. You also ...