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Considering Quantum Fiber as an ISP, but they require the installation of a (permanent) C5500XK smart NID (midwest.social)

submitted 1 year ago by archomrade@midwest.social to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Does anyone know if this enables any kind of tracking (either through WiFi device logging or network activity)? I've typically used my own networking modems and routers, I'm a little weary of a required smart device that I don't have control over.

So far I haven't been able to find much information beyond what's available from century-link

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[–] jsdz@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

If you can't avoid it and you don't trust it, you could probably turn off its wifi and then connect to it only through your own router+VPN.

[–] archomrade@midwest.social 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks.

It also apparently has a BLE antenna in it for some reason, i'm a little worried about what that's doing there. But the alternative is Xfinity so i'm still considering it....

Not that I need it but according to the sales guy they just installed 8Gbit service in my neighborhood, and I hadn't even heard of anything that fast for residential service. It's like $165 a month though