[AusNOG] ABC 4Corners - What's Wrong with the NBN?

[Mark Newton]

On Oct 24, 2017, at 11:22 AM, Giles Pollock <glp71s at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Difference is on NBN your landline is converted to a VoIP line and provided by the ISP. Said ISP won't divulge the SIP configuration so if you want to use it you're locked in to using their provided router. A router which dials home for config and happily feeds back all the leases it gives out to client devices back to the ISPs controller.

Sorry, huh, land … line?

More seriously, this isn’t an NBN issue. iiNet has been doing the exact same thing with their Bob CPE on ADSL for at least the last 8 years.

If you don’t like it, but your service from a service provider who doesn’t use TR-069 or something, idk. It’s up to you.

   - mark