From: jayjwa@atr2.ath.cx.invalid
Stéphane CARPENTIER writes:
> In France we have a decently correct ISP market too. But it means we can
> chose our ISP. Mostly the biggest ISP come with their router and we have
> to use it. The possibility to choose one's ISP doesn't imply we can
> choose our router.
Why do you have to use it? Here in NY, we have cable and fiber and maybe
some other little ones I've not noticed. The fiber is about the same
price as the cable, but it does (I've heard) CGNAT so that's a
deal-breaker for me. I'm not sure of fiber support for ip6. The cable
does ip6 prefix delegation so I get an entire bank of ip6 addresses -
enough to connect everything I have that speaks ip6.
They let me do my thing, so I stay with them. Their website is
absolutely terrible and doesn't work properly with Linux much of the
time. It's almost impossible to talk to a real person to solve an issue
and you have to fix a broken internet connection with another internet
connection. Yup, it's all with mobile and text and "please visit this
link". Putting a new modem on the network used to be a matter of giving
them your HFC MAC address. This last time it took two hours and I had to
chant "cancel cancel cancel cancel" over and over to get a person that
could put the modem on the network. I think it's Charter on the backend
but their branding is Spectrum. They block Windows networking over ip4
but not ip6. Thankfully it's very rare I have to call them. My new place
did need new wiring when I moved in but now it's all set.
If you use their voice service too, you have to use their modem else you
can use your own. They have routers, which I hear are not the best but
you do not have to use them. My Linux box *is* the router. There's
relatively little traffic on ip6.
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