santa19992000@yahoo.com wrote:
What do you think the advantage of combining the devices is?
The disadvantage is that you give up control. A cable modem is configured by the
cable company. They decide which firmware to push out to the modem. They decide
which config file to push out to the modem. If you've combined the router into
the cable modem, you have given up control of your router.
Also, if either device fails, and you've got some kind of a combination device,
you would have to replace the whole thing. With separate components, if one
fails, only that device needs to be replaced.
If there was an advantage to combining the two devices, you'd have no problem
finding such devices on the market. But there is no advantage to combining the
devices other than reduction of the number of wires. Combining the two devices
for a cosmetic reason doesn't really make much sense.
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