Comment on Belong ISP Updating Their Terms, Maybe Dropping Third Party Modem Support And Speed Throttling

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• vividspecter@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Nothing wrong with only supporting compliant/certificated modems.

  Yes there is, depending on what “compliant” means in this context. I expect to be able to use my Openwrt router on any ISP I pay money to.

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  • xradeon@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Your router isn’t a modem, they don’t care what router you use.

    Not sure what kind of ISP these guys are, but I’m assuming coax based, in which case they probably are adding terms saying you need to use more modern DOCSIS modems. This is most likely because they are going to start to phase out support for older DOCSIS standards.

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    • vividspecter@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It’s Australia so it’s a combination of:

      • FTTP/FTTC/FTTN
      • HFC cable

      Most of this will be installed by NBN (National Broadband Network) contractors. Non NBN based connections are pretty uncommon these days, although the OP doesn’t specify.

      Anyway that was the reason I assumed that other networking equipment would be relevant (such as routers) because there isn’t such thing as a third party device for most of the above. The OP used “modem” because I know a lot of Austalians use the term interchangeably, probably from the history of ADSL where modem-router combinations were common.

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  • bestusername@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I take the change to mean “no phone support for” not “you can’t use”.

    From a hardware point if view; how would they even know you’d changed the firmware?

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    • vividspecter@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      From a hardware point if view; how would they even know you’d changed the firmware?

      They probably wouldn’t but it’s the principle of it. And in my case, the hardware itself is x86 so if they were whitelisting hardware, that would be an issue. But yeah on your first point, it’s certainly a “devil is in the details” type situation. It could range anywhere from “no phone support” to you have to buy and use their bundled modem/router (and everything in between).

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• dylanTheDeveloper@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  We’re adding more definitions to what we consider ‘unfair, unreasonable or inappropriate use’.

  Is the excuse they’re gonna use to slow your speed without specifying exactly why

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  • bestusername@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It says “adding more definitions”.

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