[186681] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Broadband Router Comparisons
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Keith Medcalf)
Sun Dec 27 21:18:25 2015
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Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2015 19:18:20 -0700
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From: "Keith Medcalf" <kmedcalf@dessus.com>
To: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
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On Sunday, 27 December, 2015 17:58, Larry Sheldon <larrysheldon@cox.net> sa=
id:
> On 12/26/2015 23:49, Mike wrote:
>
> [snip]
>
> > Firstly, they are all junk. Every last one of them. Period. Broadband
> > routers are designed to be cheap and to appeal to people who don't know
> > any better, and who respond well (eg: make purchasing decisions) based
> > on the shape of the plastic, the color scheme employed, and number of
> > mysterious blinking lights that convey 'something important is
> > happening'. Further, the price point is $45 - $70 thereabouts, putting
> > some definite constraints on the actual quality of the engineering and
> > components that go into them. I feel that we, the service provider,
> > endure a significantly high and undue burden of cost associated with
> > providing ongoing support to customers as a result of the defects
> > contained therein.
> Why don't you offer an acceptable (to you) device at a price acceptable
> to me as a part of the service. I'd buy it.
Cable Companies / Telco's cannot do that.
If you bought the device you would want control of it. (PWC do not permit =
foreign controlled devices on their networks)
This is anti-thetical to their (CableCo/TelCo) business model.
This is why most PWC (People With Clue) have the CableCo/TelCo configure th=
eir crap as a pure bridge with all other features disabled and use their ow=
n equipment. The local lan port on the bridge is the Demarc.
If there is "no transport" at the demarc port, the problem lies with the Ca=
bleCo/TelCo. If there is, the problem is your own equipment.
Telling where the problem lies is trivial.
