Freek de Kruijf wrote:
Op maandag 24 april 2023 08:42:08 CEST schreef Per Jessen:
Carlos E. R. wrote:
If there were a company supplying such a hardware and doing support, I would think of it fast.
Above, Freek suggested that AVM was such a company :-) AVM does have a good reputation in general.
At least in The Netherlands ISPs need to allow and support the use of modems owned by the client. I believe this is even a requirement in the EU. The support means that they must provide information needed to configure the modem for access to the network of the ISP.
The same here in Switzerland - for about twenty years. I also think it is an EU regulation, it is part of telecomms liberalisation. AFAIU, the provider is in charge of everything up until the housewall. [1] Since 2001, I have had four providers - Swisscom, Solnet, iWay and now Init7. None have imposed any hardware, although all have offered it. For the fibre access with iWay and Init7 I accepted the proposed hardware - first Zyxel, later Mikrotik. As Carlos have explained to us at length, it is clearly very different in Spain. [1] Around 2004, I ordered four new ISDN lines for my new office - Swisscom turned up with three guys and a digger. They dug a narrow trench in our vegetable garden, then put a small box on the wall and wired it up. "The rest is up to you, bye". -- Per Jessen, Zürich (13.4°C) Member, openSUSE Heroes (2016 - present) We're hiring - https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Heroes