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ISP's thanks to a bill cannot charge rental fees anymore: https://www.pcmag.com/news/isps-cant-charge-you-for-using-your-own-router-anymore https://www.pcmag.c
by RajT88 2y ago
ISP's thanks to a bill cannot charge rental fees anymore:
https://www.pcmag.com/news/isps-cant-charge-you-for-using-your-own-router-anymore https://www.pcmag.com/news/isps-cant-charge-you-for-using-yo...
Unless they come up with a BS security excuse, like cert based auth to their network, which means they claim they cannot offer people to BYOE. I bought an old DSL modem off eBay some years back and tried to get AT&T to waive the rental fee (honestly thinking I was in the clear).
They were not having it. I filed an FCC complaint and in a few days got a call from the office of the CEO saying the equipment was still technically theirs and "gray market" and they could sue me if they wanted. I did get that rental fee waived.
I got off AT&T as soon as humanly possible after that. I used to think they were less shady than Comcast, but now I know otherwise. Comcast, for all their egregious nonsense, at least lets you BYOE.
- tombert 2y agoI still have to the use the Verizon Fios ONT, and as far as I know there's no way to avoid that, but at least Verizon hasn't given me any shit for providing my own router. I still get the advertised speeds and it makes me happy to own my own stuff.
- egberts1 2y agoBut you can bridge the Verizon directly into your own router. This is how I did it: https://egbert.net/blog/tags/verizon.html https://egbert.net/blog/tags/verizon.html
- tombert 2y agoI'll look into it. Just an FYI, it appears that the link you provided doesn't work in Chromium? Something to do with TLS...It does seem to work with Firefox.
- egberts1 2y agoBecause Chrome client refuses to negotiate toward Cha-Cha-Poly algorithm in its TLS variant. Even if the HTTP server (such as my website) demanded ONLY Cha-Cha-Poly.