{"id":443675,"date":"2010-03-18T10:39:30","date_gmt":"2010-03-18T14:39:30","guid":{"rendered":"Gizmodo-5496401"},"modified":"2010-03-18T10:39:30","modified_gmt":"2010-03-18T14:39:30","slug":"is-charter-tricking-customers-into-renting-unnecessary-routers-isps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/443675","title":{"rendered":"Is Charter Tricking Customers Into Renting Unnecessary Routers? [ISPs]"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: left; padding-right: 10px;\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<!--  div style=\"background-color: #B3B3B3; width: 160px; padding: 1px;\"><a title=\"Click here to read Is Charter Tricking Customers Into Renting Unnecessary Routers?\" href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/tag\/isps\/\" style=\"background-color:#888888; color:#FFFFFF; font-size:12px;text-align:right; display:block; height:14px; padding:1px 2px; text-decoration:none; text-transform:uppercase; width:156px;\"><span style=\"color: white;\" class=\"hash\">#<\/span><span style=\"color: white;\">isps<\/span><\/a><\/div -->\n<div><a title=\"Click here to read Is Charter Tricking Customers Into Renting Unnecessary Routers?\" href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/5496401\/is-charter-tricking-customers-into-renting-unnecessary-routers\" class=\"pp_image\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-color: #B3B3B3; border-width: 0 1px 1px; border-style: none solid solid;\" height=\"120\" width=\"160\" title=\"Click here to read Is Charter Tricking Customers Into Renting Unnecessary Routers?\" alt=\"Click here to read Is Charter Tricking Customers Into Renting Unnecessary Routers?\" src=\"http:\/\/cache-08.gawkerassets.com\/assets\/images\/4\/2010\/03\/160x120_charter.jpg\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\tOne <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/technology\/comments\/bes4f\/charter_tried_to_con_me_and_lied_about_it\/\">savvy Reddit user<\/a> seems to think so! Also: hoards of other disgruntled and\/or confused customers,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=linksys+charter&#038;ie=utf-8&#038;oe=utf-8&#038;aq=t&#038;rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&#038;client=firefox-a\"> according to Google<\/a>. The scam? Charter&#8217;s convincing customers that their perfectly good router hardware&mdash;including the Linksys WRT54G&mdash;just <em>doesn&#8217;t work<\/em> with the ISP.\t\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/5496401\/is-charter-tricking-customers-into-renting-unnecessary-routers\" title=\"Click here to read more about Is Charter Tricking Customers Into Renting Unnecessary Routers? [ISPs]\">More&nbsp;&raquo;<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<br style=\"clear: both;\" \/><br \/>\n\t\t\t<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=78cf4e0bbca34dddd9fa1b04b6fcddf1&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 0;\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=78cf4e0bbca34dddd9fa1b04b6fcddf1&#038;p=1\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<!-- foo --><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=7w6g4aIwceo:SE0MeTzXfiA:H0mrP-F8Qgo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?d=H0mrP-F8Qgo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=7w6g4aIwceo:SE0MeTzXfiA:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=7w6g4aIwceo:SE0MeTzXfiA:D7DqB2pKExk\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?i=7w6g4aIwceo:SE0MeTzXfiA:D7DqB2pKExk\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=7w6g4aIwceo:SE0MeTzXfiA:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?i=7w6g4aIwceo:SE0MeTzXfiA:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/gizmodo\/full\/~4\/7w6g4aIwceo\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One savvy Reddit user seems to think so! Also: hoards of other disgruntled and\/or confused customers, according to Google. The scam? Charter&#8217;s convincing customers that their perfectly good router hardware&mdash;including the Linksys WRT54G&mdash;just doesn&#8217;t work with the ISP. 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