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I am so very tempted by the C7000 (Cable Modem & AC1900 Router) as a way to reduce clutter and upgrade my home. I am a huge MoCA user though with the TiVo's we own. I have an aging (but reliable) Net...
Many suggest using separate wifi router/access point. Getting more complicated.
That tends to be the "techie" approach. Whatever the modem, it will never have the oomph, that's a technical term, of an upmarket router.
The only problem I can see is that so called "gateway" devices sometimes come with a telephone socket. (The word gateway gets thrown around in various ways.) So long as you can use the cable modem in modem only (bridge) mode and still use the phone (the voice but in the C7000B), this two-box strategy would work.
Apologies for confusing the issue. But you wouldn't want to get the box home and find that it won't do the job.