On Monday, 8 August 2022 17:25:08 BST Laurence Perkins wrote: > I would strongly recommend getting your own equipment with most ISPs since > the rental price on their equipment will buy a new modem yearly. > > Now, that said, the other ISP in the area also has a backdoor, and they try > to connect to it any time they're running diagnostics, and if the > connection fails then they reset the circuit. So your choice is use one of > their sanctioned models and leave the backdoor alone or else have sporadic > dropouts.
Life isn't like that in the UK - at least, I hope not. I'm not aware of any such behaviour by my ISP. -- Regards, Peter.
