On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 9:40 PM, Ben Francis <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mail@tola.me.uk">mail@tola.me.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im">2011/2/17 Bjarni Rúnar Einarsson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bre@pagekite.net" target="_blank">bre@pagekite.net</a>></span><br>
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<div><br></div></div><div class="im"><div class="gmail_quote"><div>Incidentally, you are describing a device that I personally could not use, because my ISP provides me with a router and won't let me change or replace it.</div>
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</div></blockquote></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>This is interesting, I've often wondered about that. I've always used my own router, not the one my ISP provides me with, it would never even occur to me to ask my ISP's permission. <br>
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<div><br></div><div>What is it they do exactly to prevent you using your own router or is it just that it would break their T&Cs? What country do you live in? Is it cable or some kind of DSL? Is this common for most people?</div>
</div></blockquote><div><br>Oh, that's easy. They pre-configure it and never tell me the passwords. :-)<br><br>The connection is DSL. I think the motivation for doing it this way is they are offering TV over DSL as a paid extra, and probably figured it would be easier to lock down the edges than do proper access controls. :-P Security by obscurity, I guess.<br clear="all">
</div></div><br>I am in Iceland, so this may be quite rare globally. Or it may be common, I
really don't know. But I figure if my ISP thought of it and decided it was a "good idea", others might as well. And we don't even have an IP address shortage to deal with, unlike some other parts of the world...<br>
<br>Especially w.r.t mobile - 3G dongles are becoming more and more popular as peoples' primary Internet connection, and that stuff is very often heavily firewalled/NATted as well.<br><br>So I'm pretty keen on some sort of FreedomBox that can do useful things even from behind a very restricted Internet connection. :-)<br>
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