Depends on how much you trust your ISP. For example, AT&T is in the top five list of ISPs around the world that do Deep Packet Inspection, so that they can thro

Depends on how much you trust your ISP. For example, AT&T is in the top five list of ISPs around the world that do Deep Packet Inspection, so that they can throttle your NetFlix and Amazon Prime streaming TV speeds, as well as insert their own ads where they want, etc…. Who knows what else they’re doing? Same with Spectrum. That’s the two high speed carriers that are common here in Austin. Sure, there are smaller carriers in fringe areas, but they are a small fraction of the market. This is why I want a proper SDN. Let me treat the carrier like opaque dumb pipes, and aggregate the bandwidth across those channels, so that I am insulated from total failure if just one of them should go down, and in the expected case I can manage my own traffic shaping the way I want it to be in the house.