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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 6/1/21 12:44, Shawn L wrote:<br>
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10pt; overflow-wrap: break-word;">From the ISP side, I can
tell you that when a customer signs up for service and you
offer them a couple of choices of wireless routers, they
almost always pick the cheapest one. </p>
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<p style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family: arial; font-size:
10pt; overflow-wrap: break-word;">If you give them a
reasonable / good router when you hook-up their service, some
will still put their old 15-year old netgear back in place
after the install crew leaves because they 'like it better' or
they think it's faster.</p>
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<font size="2"><font face="arial">And that's why, as I said before,
most ISP's keep it simple, rather than spending time and energy
on advising customers about better options... time they could be
spending making a new sale or fixing another problem.<br>
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Furthermore, it's not enough to give a customer a better CPE.
Customers don't generally understand how to build their home
wireless networks. The only time they'll choose to fix this is
when things get really bad, or when they are renovating the
house and have a neighbor that works for an ISP and is the
resident "fixer" :-).<br>
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Mark.</font></font><br>
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