[Ignitionnet]

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They always said, very clearly, that the router remained their property and that they'd ask for it back when you left them and did just that.

This is the point of them loaning you the equipment as opposed to giving it to you.

You were not paying any direct modem rental or hire purchase fee and regardless of assumptions on whether or not you paid for it many times over with your subscription for internet access (not internet access and modem rental) it doesn't change that the hardware isn't yours and was supplied to you so that you could use their service and no other reason.

It's pretty worthless on eBay anyway to be perfectly honest with you.