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What router should I be using in place of the ISP one? Can I trust it's manufacturer? How can I make sure it definitely is a one to one replacement and I don't need to use my isp router as a bridge?
Xfinity (Comcast) is uploading their own firmware to my netgear which I have purchased on amazon. So one may (rightfully) assume that they have their own backdoors there too; otherwise why would they bother doing that.
But how do they do that? Doesn't this require basically root access to the router? If you give it to your ISP, then the router is ISP's as much as yours, until they cut your root access off %)
This is all well and good but unless you have networking experience and know what makes a good router you're still stuck. What router should I be using in place of the ISP one? Can I trust it's manufacturer? How can I make sure it definitely is a one to one replacement and I don't need to use my isp router as a bridge?
Intel NICs are generally preferred over Realtek if available.
I wish. I own my own modem and router, but Comcast won’t let me use them unless I pay a whole bunch of extra fees or accept a stupidly low monthly data cap. I’ve got my router downstream of theirs which is a bit annoying, especially considering their modem-router combo overheats and needs to be rebooted via unplugging power at least once a month. Sadly I have no other options here in San Francisco. My house is not wi…
I live in SF and Comcast doesn't charge me to have my own router. I pay $130 for 1.4gbit and unlimited data. It's expensive but I also have no other choices. Sonic stops only one block over and we haven't been able to convince them to wire up my block.
I also pay a little more than $130 for gigabit with a 1tb limit.
I wish I had options.
In similar news: The German regulator (BNetzA) just re-confirmed two weeks ago [0] that passive optical networks are not exempt from § 73 (1) of the TKG (Telecommunication law) which mandates that the interface between provider and customer is required to be a passive interface (i.e. mandating an ONT is already in violation of that). And that is fine. The different PON standards are reasonably well standardized and c…
I wish. I own my own modem and router, but Comcast won’t let me use them unless I pay a whole bunch of extra fees or accept a stupidly low monthly data cap. I’ve got my router downstream of theirs which is a bit annoying, especially considering their modem-router combo overheats and needs to be rebooted via unplugging power at least once a month. Sadly I have no other options here in San Francisco. My house is not wi…
I wish. I own my own modem and router, but Comcast won’t let me use them unless I pay a whole bunch of extra fees or accept a stupidly low monthly data cap. I’ve got my router downstream of theirs which is a bit annoying, especially considering their modem-router combo overheats and needs to be rebooted via unplugging power at least once a month. Sadly I have no other options here in San Francisco. My house is not wi…
For a while I had fiber running through an XGS-PON SFP module in my own Fritz!Box. Now I use the provider's ONT (which is just a fiber ethernet media converter) hooked up to a Unifi Cloud Gateway Max.
Plenty of folks here that have their UDM or OpnSense box hooked up directly to fiber with a Zaram XGS-PON module.
Also, I am sorry you have to deal with caps. Data has been unlimited here ever since we switched from 56k6 to ADSL. (I also have unlimited 5G for 25 Euro per month.)
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In EU the second poorest country has the fastest internet. The richest country cannot provide cellular signal to all of its area.
Hey, we finally get fiber in the "richest" country. Telekom just wants to build it to our apartment, for free. They just need a permission from our landlord, who said no way and blocked the fiber installation. We are stuck with Vodafone only... I guess it is a better investment for them to smoke us out, renovate this place and rent it with three times more...
We left Germany in 2018. We have unlimited 4Gbit synchronous fiber and unlimited 5G.
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In EU the second poorest country has the fastest internet. The richest country cannot provide cellular signal to all of its area.
It kindof depends when a country did its investment into Internet infrastructure. More western countries did it first and are now stuck with older technologies that limit speed and capacity, where as the less modern countries put that investment in later and therefore have newer technologies like fibre. Once an investment has been made it's hard to justify making another large investment, or if one is being made it b…
This is not necessary. These countries are also very rich and can afford to upgrade infrastructure. I am in The Netherlands and have 4Gbit fiber. At the end of 2024 there were 8 million fiber connections, whereas there are 8.4 million households. Heck, even my parents who live in a small remote village can get multi-gig fiber (though they are happy with their 100MBit).