A detailed look at the router provided by my ISP

Re:A detailed look at the router provided by my ISP by avip on Thursday March 26, 2020 @06:25PM (#22698601)

This law is a tech-support nightmare.

You can call your ISP with any arbitrary piece of non-branded random AliExpress $#@$ of a network eq. and they must walk you through configuring it? That does not make much sense to me.

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Re:A detailed look at the router provided by my ISP by tejtm on Thursday March 26, 2020 @07:11PM (#22698938)

Or it is strong motivation to be the perfectly standard dumb pipe the user wanted to pay for in the first place.

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Re:A detailed look at the router provided by my ISP by m3at on Thursday March 26, 2020 @07:19PM (#22698999)

Parent note that the ISP provide a router anyway. It's safe to assume that most people will simply use that, if not for the support just because it is already there.

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Re:A detailed look at the router provided by my ISP by blaser-waffle on Friday March 27, 2020 @03:21PM (#22705923)

Yeah this. My mom isn't ever going to add a 3rd party router. Even most of the technical people I know (well paid python devs, etc.) probably wouldn't mess the on-prem ISP gear.

I do network engineering for a living, so I totally would, but I'm an outlier compared to the rest of the population.

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Re:A detailed look at the router provided by my ISP by ThePowerOfFuet on Thursday March 26, 2020 @07:17PM (#22698985)

No, they have to provide the required values.

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