Compulsory Routers in your country

[Max Mehl]

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# Carsten Agger <agger at modspil.dk> [ 16. Jan 2014 @ 15:00 +0100]:
> I have a fiber box, a socalled residential gateway or Home Access Gateway
> which supplies phone, Internet and TV.
> 
> Should that be considered as a compulsory router?

It depends on if you're able to replace the box given by the ISP completely
without losing any functionality or being disciminated in the usage of your
services.

Maybe I was to unprecise in both my mail and the blog post, so here's some
examples: Some ISPs in Germany are suspected to throttle certain services of
competitors, or they disable the possibility to replace the (telephony) box to
use other phones. Some of them cannot be replaced but are unable to give full
IPv6 support.
Some ISPs do not even give internet access data (i.e. PPPoE user and password)
to replace just the internet modem, or they disallow flashing another firmware.

To be short: You have a Compulsory Routers, if you're not able to replace
parts or everything of your infrastructure needed for internet access and
related services like VoIP/TV. If the ISPs does not give you full privileges
or information (or uses closed standards) for using completely different
hardware, you have a Compulsory Router in your rooms.

Hope this explained a little bit. I know, the topic is quite complex and you
can go deep into depth (I wrote around 14 pages to our national network
agency...), but I consider it as very important.


Best,
Max

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