Except, the $40 internet plan under time warner was now $50 whether you had your own modem or not.
Yeah, that's pretty crappy of them.
I downgraded my FIOS from 1Gbit/sec to 200Mbit/sec, just to save $10/mo, to turn around and rent their new (newer than the several-year-old FIOS "Quantum Gateway" G1100, not even sure what the model number on this new one is. It's 802.11ax / Wifi 6) gateway. I wanted to rent it for a few months, to get a handle on it, and decide if I want to buy one.
Not sure if I even need it, as my wifi needs are largely taken care of by my AC68U-family routers (AiMesh for the win).
Then after doing that, I saw that BestBuy was offering some sort of, I think it was "AX58U" or something, an AX / Wifi 6 Asus router for under $200 for purchase. Silly me. If I had seen that, I would have kept my Gigabit speed FIOS, and not rented the Verizon AX router. Not that I have any AX clients anyways.
Edit: One thing that gave me pause about buying the AX58U, even thought it claims to support AiMesh, is what other routers that it will mesh with. Asus also offers a twin-pack of AX Mesh routers, and I want to know if I can use my AC68U routers as Mesh "slave" nodes, or if they have to all be AX now if you use an Asus AX router as your "master" Mesh node.
Edit: I pay around $125/mo for internet, for both FIOS and my "backup" internet connection.