I would in general, like to be building better CPE with open drivers all the way down the stack.
has anyone seen this effort yet? https://lite.turris.cz/en/ On Wed, Sep 9, 2015 at 2:54 PM, Tom Hill <[email protected]> wrote: > On 09/09/15 22:37, Brandon Butterworth wrote: >> This is a game you can't win, best not play it with them > > In principle, I agree on the fact that Openreach are reducing the > service that existed - and was improved upon - when FTTC was first > introduced. I also empathise with anyone that has to deal with them on a > regular basis, especially WRT to faults. > > Two things now spring to mind: > > 1. There /are/ other ISPs playing this game, and finding their own USPs > to continue doing so - if they were dropping like flies, I would believe > it was completely worthless to pursue it - just doesn't appear to be the > case. Case in point: this thread exists. > > 2. Unifying such a CPE/NTE product could also serve to provide a > unified voice with which to deal with Openreach over faults. Surely they > inevitably deal in large numbers or not at all, and that's (hopefully) > what you would have by the time enough providers were using the same > hardware - safety in numbers (well, statistics). > > At the end of the day, I can't imagine a commodity/consumer service > coming with free NTEs for longer than is required - no doubt the same > will also happen with G.Fast (as it did ADSL - damned Stingrays). > > Getting angry with the way Openreach operate hasn't solved anything to > date, that I'm aware of. > > -- > Tom > > -- Dave Täht endo is a terrible disease: http://www.gofundme.com/SummerVsEndo
