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If your ISP didn't have that feature, could you just replace the cable modem too? My ISP's router is running EuroDOCSIS 3.0 and I'm wondering if I could replace

• mercora 7y ago
  if you happened to live in Germany there is a law in place that force ISPs to allow that. But if you would live in Germany you would probably know about this. That said there is no technical reason making it impossible. If you connect an unknown device here, you get access to the customer web panel only and can register your device using it. Afterwards it gets provisioned as usual (with caveats [no PacketCable for example])
• pmlnr 7y ago
  Yes, you could, but the new router+modem needs to be "accepted" by the DOCSIS provisioning. Talk to the support about it.
• zeroflow 7y ago
  Sadly I could not, since the ISP is defining the router as the endpoint of it's network so there is no freedom to choose different models.
  • em-bee 7y ago
    practically though what is the difference between having the endpoint in a shaft by the elevator or in your apartment or even down the street? in all scenarios i'd put my own router behind the ISP equipment and run my local network however i want. the only issue is with getting a public ip address for inbound connections. here we are not getting public ip addresses anyways, so the point is moot for me. but if you do get one, then all they need to do is configure their router to forward the public ip to yours. in my case the ISP even installed two routers. one was theirs that i had no access to and one was "ours" that i was able to configure as i liked or replace with my own. both routers had their own wifi, but i don't use the one from the ISP endpoint router