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if you're Comcast customer your home Wi-Fi could be getting a major upgrade Comcast announced its very own cloud-based home Wi-Fi management system that they're saying will offer better connectivity and easier setup than its previous gateway systems advanced gateway is a router system similar to mesh Wi-Fi systems like Eero or Google Wi-Fi mesh Wi-Fi aims to blanket your home with fast connections using small extenders place near weaker signal areas Comcast's new solution will include optional extenders new routers with better range voice and TV integration and a simple portal you'll be able to use to manage your home network the company plans to activate the software side of this new service at no cost to customers on supporting routers in the first part of 2017 the advanced gateway will begin shipping to Comcast customers later in the first half of 2017 it won't cost anything more than a standard router rental but there is a reason Comcast wants you to use its hardware your home network would be connected to Comcast at all times via a comcast.net account though Comcast insists it won't collect personal information and customers can opt out this is definitely an effort to combat those third party options mentioned earlier but if Comcast can fulfill its promise to continually update the system with advanced security features and other options this might be a very easy and powerful upgrade for existing Comcast subscribers I'm Ashley Scott for cnet.com vegan humans