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Does it matter though? If the ISP is responsible for the "last mile", does it matter if they screw up the last meter of it? It's one thing if customer supplied
by notheguyouthink 8y ago
Does it matter though? If the ISP is responsible for the "last mile", does it matter if they screw up the last meter of it?
It's one thing if customer supplied boxes are causing problems in the last meter, but if the last mile is end to end controlled by the ISP, and they still screw it up, does it matter what meter is the problem?
The only benefit I see here is that a confident/educated customer could implement the fix themselves as you suggest. However that's sort of dodging the issue, rather than acknowledging that the ISP isn't holding up their end of the agreement (in loose terms at least).
- oicie0uD 8y agoYou are paying for that ISP-supplied router, either explicitly as an item in your bill or implicitly factored into the overall cost. People will either go with the cheapest option if there are any options at all or the ISP will simply save costs to do the minimum necessary to provide internet access. And of course those routers are crap and only do the bare minimum. For example they often have comically bad firewalls/NATs that can overflow their state tables when you do any P2P, run your own DNS resolver or run a home server through dynamic DNS. And then there's buffer bloat. A custom router with OpenWRT and enough RAM will cope with those use-cases and will offer all the nice linux traffic shaping plugins like fq_codel and cake.