Many WISPs rent routers or sell home wifi routers to their customers. Some routers are used pulls from other customers, get factory defaulted and configured for new customers.
Nothing wrong with this. If you saw a WISP that was taking used routers from customer pulls and re-selling them to another customer at $80/piece, and that router was this exact model: http://www.ebay.com/itm/NETGEAR-WNR1000-WIRELESS-N-N150-WIRELESS-ROUTER-RANGEMAX-4-PORT-SWITCH-/171392676852?hash=item27e7ccb3f4:g:D8sAAOSwKPNTzDRY Would you consider it to be ethically questionable? I could not in good conscience sell such a feeble, obsolete $10 router for $80. This is not a 'rented' router, this was an actual purchase line item on a customer invoice.
