On 2018-08-23 7:35 p.m., Sebastian Moeller wrote: >> On Aug 24, 2018, at 00:32, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: >> >> On Thu, 23 Aug 2018, Sebastian Moeller wrote: >>> router should be able to handle at least the sold plan's bandwidth with its main CPU...) >> Looking at this as an economic decision, were I a modern ISP, I would want * as few different devices as possible * good margins on each and I would not care about whether the smarts were in the CPU or a controller, as my only interests would lie in solving an linear programming problem for the least cost in base cost, inventory and replacement costs. A quick look at Tek Savvy (our best non-monopolist isp) shows that have one modem they rent... plus a large list of ones they support for a given speed range, from which they chose their best priced one: Manufacturer    Model    Hardware Version    Firmware Version Cisco    DPC3848N    2.0    dpc3800-v303r2042161-160115a Cisco    DPC3848V    1.0    dpc3800-v303r2042162-160115a Technicolor    DPC3848V    1.0    dpc3800-v303r2042162-160620a*<- their favorite* Technicolor    TC4350    3.0    50041.1.19.0 Hitron    CDA3    1A    4.5.0.14 Hitron    CDA3-35    1.A    6.1.2.26 TP-Link    TC7650    1.0    v1.0.3 Build 20161117 Rel358190 Hitron    CGNM-3550    1A    4.5.11.8-TPIA Hitron    CGN3-RES    1A    4.2.4.11RES SmartRG    SR808ac    1.0 --dave -- David Collier-Brown, | Always do right. This will gratify System Programmer and Author | some people and astonish the rest davecb@spamcop.net | -- Mark Twain