"it is often a decade old" This is a problem first in terms of security and secondly why ISPs have their own hardware cause people will upgrade their plan and

"it is often a decade old" This is a problem first in terms of security and secondly why ISPs have their own hardware cause people will upgrade their plan and complain they are not getting the speeds because they don't even have the hardware to support it. Firmware bugs in routers are becoming common for DDoS attacks.