Subj : Housekeeping
To   : vorlon
From : TassieBob
Date : Mon Jul 11 2022 12:36:04


 vo> There is the same $$$ over rulling, most isp's supply a router at no
 vo> charge to new customers, unless the customer deciced to use an existing
 vo> device. It wouldn't be to hard for them to use a better router, and
 vo> recover the costs like they do now over time. Most want a 2 year
 vo> contract.

You're 100% right - the catch (I think) is that ISP's want to just pick something off the shelf, get a discount price for 10,000 of them, maybe get their name printed on the plastic case, and start selling.

Not too many are willing to put in the hard yards to get the IPv6 working properly - and by "hard yards" I mean telling the vendor "I'll buy 10,000 of your units, but you need to implement this, this, and this to our satisfaction first".  Use the carrot to drag them into the 21st century :-)

I _think_ the Exetel guys did a fair bit of work with ZTE, but I don't know how much of that was IPv6 related vs other desirable features.  I should get them to send me one to play with :-)

 >> An ISP we recently acquired does IPv6 by default for residential, and
 >> I'm hoping our own brand follows their lead.

 vo> That's why I went with internode when moving home four years ago. Native
 vo> IPv6, and vie the NBN Fixed-Wireless.

Internode, back before the TPG acquisition, were one of those ISP's who were willing to do the hard work to get a solution that worked properly - I remember the guys there doing a lot of work with Cisco to get the LNS platform to play nicely, and I think they did a fair bit with a couple of the CPE vendors too.

I used to be an Internode customer, until the "great Basslink fubar of 201x"...


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