Hello Geoff, I understand that you have an accessibility problem with the services provided by the infrastructure/ISP who provide the routers.
You should complain at the Commission for Equal Rights of Persons with Disabilities: http://www.justice.gov.il/Units/NetzivutShivyon/Pages/default.aspx (English: http://www.justice.gov.il/En/Units/CommissionEqualRightsPersonsDisabilities/Pages/About-the-Commission-for-Equal-Rights-of-Persons-With-Disablities.aspx) Hopefully they'll help get the service providers to provide you with an accessible but secure router. --- Omer Zak On Sun, 2017-07-16 at 21:30 +0100, Geoff Shang wrote: > Hello, > > This could get a bit lengthy, so please bare with me. Also, there is a > direct connection to Linux if you read far enough. > > We are moving house in two weeks and have the opportunity to change ISP > and infrastructure providers. I'm hoping you all can help us decide who > to go with. > > Our preference is for a high-quality Internet service, and we have been > prepared to pay for it. Up until two years ago, we were happily using > Bezeqint's Gamers' package, over Bezeq NGN. But then we started running > into a problem. > > My wife and I are both blind. When we got our service reconnected in > November 2015, after being out of the country for six months, we > discovered that the Bezeq routers now have a CAPTCHA in addition to the > username and password. Moreover, this CAPTCHA has no audio challenge, > only visual ones. > > This of course makes it difficult to get into the router to administer it, > and while there are solutions that can help a blind person solve these > challenges, you of course need to be connected to the Internet to use > them, which limits their usefulness in this case. > > When we moved in earli 2016, we tried getting our infrastructure from > Bezeqint instead of Bezeq, the point being that the people you pay for > the infrastructure provide the router. Unfortunately, they also had a > CAPTCHA challenge on their login page, so this did not help particularly. > > Late last year, we tried switching to 012. To be honest, I can't remember > if they have a CAPTCHA or not. I have found the Internet in this > apartment less than satisfactory, but I'm not 100% sure if this is due to > the ISP, the phone line or the poor wi-fi performance in this apartment. > > One thing that I'm sure does contribute to poor performance, both now and > previously, is bad router firmware. I've seen problems caused by on-board > DHCP and DNS resolvers, and I've lost count of the number of times I've > cleared up some issue we've been having by rebooting the router. > > So I bought myself an EdgeRouter PoE from Ubiquiti Networks > (https://www.ubnt.com/edgemax/edgerouter-poe/). This device runs a > modified Debian Linux distribution. I've not yet set it up, but I'm > looking to do so once we move. > > To use this of course, I will either need to use some kind of modem device > only (no routing necessary) or put an ISP-supplied router in bridged mode. > > As the infrastructure provider also provides the router/modem, I'm also > looking at other connectivity options. > > I see that the Electricity company is now offering a fibre-to-the-home > service called Unlimited (unlimited.net.il). At least according to the > English language pages, which may well not be up to date, they only seem > to have a handful of ISPs, none of which I've had anything to do with. > Furthermore, I don't know anything about their reputation (it's difficult > to find much in English), and I obviously don't know anything about their > end equipment, whether it can play nice with an EdgeRouter PoE and whether > or not it has a CAPTCHA. > > I've also heard rumours of Bezeq providing a fibre-to-the-home solution as > well, but I don't know how true this is and I also don't know if equipment > for this would also suffer from a CAPTCHA that I've never figured out how > to disable. > > I'm not particularly interested in going back to Hot cable unless someone > can make a very good case for them > > If you've read this far, I thank you. > > As you can see, I have a number of concerns, some of which might be > difficult to explain to an ISP or carrier sales rep. > > My requirements are, therefore, in no particular order: > > * Fast > * Reliable > * Usable with third-party routers > * Able to be managed without a visual CAPTCHA. > > Obviously, some of this is relevant to ISPs as well as carriers, so any > thoughts on the best ISPs would also be welcome. I'm more interested in > quality and capacity than the usual bells and whistles the big ISPs have > that no-one ueses anyway. > > If you have any thoughts on any of this, I'd be most grateful to hear > them. As we move in two weeks, we will need to place orders soon. -- "Kosher" Cellphones (cellphones with blocked SMS, video and Internet) are a menace to the deaf. They must be outlawed! (See also: http://www.zak.co.il/tddpirate/2006/04/21/the-grave-danger-to-the-deaf-from-kosher-cellphones/ and http://www.zak.co.il/tddpirate/2007/02/04/rabbi-eliashiv-declared-war-on-the-deaf/) My own blog is at http://www.zak.co.il/tddpirate/ My opinions, as expressed in this E-mail message, are mine alone. They do not represent the official policy of any organization with which I may be affiliated in any way. 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