People love throwing their own router behind whatever Internet connection they have. It almost never fails to cause a problem.



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Mike Hammett
Intelligent Computing Solutions

Midwest Internet Exchange

The Brothers WISP


From: "Michael Thomas" <mike@mtcc.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
Sent: Tuesday, December 29, 2020 10:53:39 AM
Subject: Re: 10g residential CPE


On 12/29/20 8:42 AM, Aaron Wendel wrote:
> Oh, we still get calls about speed issues. It's always wonderful when
> someone puts their own 10 year old Linksys WRT54G and double NATs
> behind our CPE then sends in a speed test wondering why they're only
> getting 10Mbits on their Gbit line.  We get those ALL the time. :)
>
Does your CPE not have wireless? If it's double NAT'ing it's at least a
router. If it doesn't have wireless, wouldn't it be cheaper to add it so
you don't get the support calls?

Mike