Because they / their IT person are smart at avoiding problems. Most ISP-provided routers aren't setup (or the customer is not knowledgeable enough) by someone to be following the same wireless settings (or, for more advanced cases, port forwarding rules) as the previous router, so customers find random printers / doorbells / lightbults / devices not working after an ISP-arranged router upgrade or their changing of ISPs. Customer owning the router fixes those issues.
On Mon, Dec 13, 2021 at 3:58 PM Mike Hammett <af...@ics-il.net> wrote: > People still buy their own routers? > > Why? > > Just do it for the customer. > > > > ----- > Mike Hammett > Intelligent Computing Solutions <http://www.ics-il.com/> > <https://www.facebook.com/ICSIL> > <https://plus.google.com/+IntelligentComputingSolutionsDeKalb> > <https://www.linkedin.com/company/intelligent-computing-solutions> > <https://twitter.com/ICSIL> > Midwest Internet Exchange <http://www.midwest-ix.com/> > <https://www.facebook.com/mdwestix> > <https://www.linkedin.com/company/midwest-internet-exchange> > <https://twitter.com/mdwestix> > The Brothers WISP <http://www.thebrotherswisp.com/> > <https://www.facebook.com/thebrotherswisp> > > > <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXSdfxQv7SpoRQYNyLwntZg> > ------------------------------ > *From: *dmmoff...@gmail.com > *To: *"AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group" <af@af.afmug.com> > *Sent: *Monday, December 13, 2021 3:51:07 PM > *Subject: *[AFMUG] IPv6 in home routers > > > > I was doing some testing on our dual stack FTTX network. > > > > I grabbed a CnPilot R201P off the shelf. IPv6 was disabled by default. > You had to enable it in 3 different places and even after following the > guides on Cambium’s site the prefix delegation seems to not really work. > > I grabbed an AirCube…..no IPv6 support at all. It’s supported in the > underlying OS, but not in the GUI. Ubiquiti support says it’s coming, but > they’ve been saying that for 2 years +. > > I grabbed a Mikrotik…..works perfectly fine, but setup is beyond what any > consumer is going to do. If I’m quibbling, it doesn’t support stateful > dhcp assignments from a delegated prefix. That’s not too big of a deal. > > > > Out of 3 routers I have close at hand, 1 is a faulty implementation, 1 is > not implemented at all, and one is too hard for normal people. > > > > So when people run out to the store and get a Netgear, Asus, or whatever > router off the shelf is it hit-or-miss with those too? I guess I naively > assumed that 25 years after IPv6 was created that we’d have working > implementations by now. > > > > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >
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