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Who owns UPC wireless router?

  • 18-01-2011 07:54PM
    #1
    compaqlaptop1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 121 ✭✭


    I have equipment to give back to UPC. A TV 'box' and a wireless router. Im just wondering do I have to give back the router as I see on their site, where you sign up for broadband, it says 'FREE wireless router (applies to new Broadband customers only)' - so I take it you would have to pay for this router if you weren't a new customer.

    Well then when they give you this router, for payment or for free, I take it they no longer own it like they do with the TV box?


Comments

  • #2
    jor el
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,713 ✭✭✭✭jor el


    Depends on the router. If it's the combined modem/router (EPC2425) then it remains UPC's property. It's useless to you anyway. If you got a separate modem and router, then I believe the router is yours.

    When I signed up, I was given a Netgear router, and I understood that this was mine to keep, once the contract period expires. The modem remains theirs.


  • #3
    congo_90
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,339 ✭✭✭congo_90


    free in this case means you didn't pay for it at installation. regardless its still their property you merely lease it until the contract expires so you gotta return it.
    sure wireless routers are a dime a dozen these days


  • #4
    vibe666
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,016 ✭✭✭✭vibe666


    jor el wrote: »
    Depends on the router. If it's the combined modem/router (EPC2425) then it remains UPC's property. It's useless to you anyway. If you got a separate modem and router, then I believe the router is yours.

    When I signed up, I was given a Netgear router, and I understood that this was mine to keep, once the contract period expires. The modem remains theirs.
    ^ what he said. :)

    if it's got a modem in it, it belongs to UPC but if it's just a router with a separate modem, it's all yours.


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