Broadband ISP Virgin Media (O2) has revealed that 18% of respondents to one of their consumer surveys still "break the golden rule" by switching their Hub (ro
Not illegal, but the ISPs are seemingly under no obligation to give you those details. In Germany, there’s the “freedom of routers” embedded in the telco law. So they HAVE to give you everything you need to get your custom router online via their wire/fibre.
OIC, so, same as here. Germany seems to be having pretty well made laws in these cases.
Bridge mode is just using the ISPs router and bridge that into your router. It’s not the same - you still need the ISP’s access device instead of just yours.
Except that it is a layer 2 bridge and I couldn’t connect to the network directly, either way, because their line is copper [1] and consumer routers/modems are usually RJ45/RJ11.
OIC, so, same as here. Germany seems to be having pretty well made laws in these cases.
Except that it is a layer 2 bridge and I couldn’t connect to the network directly, either way, because their line is copper [1] and consumer routers/modems are usually RJ45/RJ11.