Recognize that nearly everybody is a “dumb bozo”. Most people do not want to manage a home network.
There are a lot of technically-proficient people who refuse to do this anymore. I guess it is a non-zero amount of work, but it really, really isn't that much. The direction we're headed in is pretty obvious: some day, sooner rather than later, the era of customers being able to use their own cable modems for DOCSIS internet will slowly end, as the people who bother become more and more in the minority.
Nowadays they have to provide PPPoE and voip credentials, and cable providers need to provide a service where you give them the Mac of your own modem and then it gets tied to your contract.
https://lafibre.info/routeurs/ (see "remplacer XXX par un routeur")
It's somewhat easy if you know network stuff (DNS, DHCP options, CIDR, routing, prefix delegation, etc...); if you somewhat know about those and can navigate some docs the hardest part is figuring out what the ISP expects in terms of magic bits so that it decides to:
a) hand you out v4 address (DHCP) / v6 prefix (RS)
b) allow routing (notably for v6 prefix, sometimes /64 may work OOTB but getting the /48 or /52 you're supposed to have doesn't route without proper RS DHCPv6 options)
c) unlock throttling (some throttle packets unless magic bits are sent in a specific way)
Well; that, and having the proper hardware (e.g obtaining an off-the-shelf 10-GPON SPF module compatible with what your ISP provides might range from very pricey to unobtainium). I'm lucky because my ISP chose a split ONT/router strategy and I just have to plug my own router in the GPON ONT over Ethernet.
† an ISP-provided router is just called a "box" - from "set-top box" - commercial names being "box" concatenated with the ISP initial or name: Bbox, freebox, livebox, neufbox/box SFR
P.S. thanks, now I know why Iliad (Free in Italy is called Iliad) names their router "Iliadbox" :) that naming is not common in Italy
[1] https://www.dday.it/redazione/51863/modem-libero-e-ftth-tutt...
They have a "nerdmode" switch on their website.
> Fair Use Policy The Internet subscriptions for private customers are intended for normal personal use. Init7 reserves the right to temporarily or permanently restrict or discontinue the provision of services for connections whose data volume exceeds 0.5 petabyte (500 terabytes) in a period of 4 weeks, or to take another suitable measure.
So that would be full blast for over 40 hours...
ISPs here are required by law to state the technological standards they use, and consumers can request the required authentication data (for DSL PPPoE) or, in the case of hardware-based authentication with MAC addresses (for DOCSIS), submit these to the provider.
In practice most will rent from their ISP, but the competition is so strong that cheap crap routers are rare, usually ISPs make a point in advertising customers will get an AVM FritzBox - the ultimate market leader for good reasons.
[1] https://www.bmwk.de/Redaktion/DE/Artikel/Digitale-Welt/freie...
[2] https://www.teltarif.de/bnetza-glasfaser-routerfreiheit-netz...
The FAQ says "your NOW Internet Gateway comes with a 90-day warranty" so perhaps they'd care somewhat about mods within the first 90 days.
The number of wifi networks that're running around us has gotten so crazy that it's no wonder we all need wifi-6 to even get reasonable speeds. I'm the kind of person who goes around and disables wifi absolutely everywhere possible, so this is good to know, but what'd be even better is if devices stopped running wifi networks behind our backs. Sigh.
Instead large houses need signals that go through roofs, floors and walls. But they probably also have a lot of family members inside, each one with their one, two or three wifi devices that interfere with the rest of the family. Maybe one repeater per room and 5 or 6 GHz would be good there too. 3 different video streams to people of the same couch could still be challenging.
I guess that's because people here tend to use 5G mobile networks and not so much WiFi, maybe not at all, so there's little contention. (Perhaps this makes it obvious, but not in the USA.)
Check out the table on wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Wi-Fi_generations
Perhaps I'm just naive, but this struck me as the buried lede:
> ...but even in bridge mode, the gateway broadcasts several hidden SSIDs with no option to disable the radios.
On a yearly basis if you lower consumption by one watt it saves you 8.5kWh My network and internet access needs between 1-15W, I save about 80kWh compared to this setup. Even with one watt less it actually makes sense if you care about many installs.
My rate goes to infinity at the darker times of the year.
Not to discredit the author for sharing the insight, but the hard sell of saving 2W consumption simply isn't a prime mover here. If anything, mitigation of implicit side channel RF interference when the hack is paired with a OpenWrt router (as the author apparently intended) makes a lot more compelling sense...but now we're talking about bootstrapping an additional appliance into the setup, rendering contextual discussion of power savings objectively moot.
[1] https://www.pge.com/assets/pge/docs/account/rate-plans/resid...