On 07/12/2010, at 11:16 AM, Regan Murphy wrote:

Can't wait to see this applied to DNS resolvers -> same thing -> so
much is because of b0rked DNS proxy/caches on ADSL CPE. At scale
you'll see people bleating about it and blaming the ISP.
MMC

Maybe the ISPs could find non-crap CPE to sell? I always have my
modem working as a media converter and a decent machine doing
routing and magic... Just a thought.

Honestly, it's not worth us selling crap - doesn't mean some models don't turn out to be lemons in the longer terms but reality is the ongoing cost is so much higher it's just not worth it.

In our market customers choose their own CPE - they can buy from us, they can bring their own. Some CPE is ancient and now doesn't cope with throughputs/TCP sessions customers want to do, but was fine at the time. We offer decent CPE and a range of them to suit various people, but that doesn't stop customers making a choice based on price not on what they need. For example we sell everything from a $99 simple job to a $399 device (coming in jan) which has bells and whistles like you wouldn't believe (http://www.internode.on.net/news/2010/11/206.php ).

MMC