André Polykanine<p>Folks, I have a <a href="https://dragonscave.space/tags/question" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>question</span></a>, it's probably weird but I'm really curious.<br>Back in Ukraine, when I got an Internet connection, I got an optical fiber cable furnished by my ISP. It came into my apartment and that's basically it, you do whatever you want: you can connect it to a LAN port of your PC, you can buy any router on the market and set up a wireless network — the ISP doesn't care. They can provide a Wi-Fi setup as an additional service, but generally it's not their work, again, they don't care what you do with your cable as long as you pay for the connection.<br>Here, first in Germany, then now in France, what you basically get is a ready-to-go solution (a <a href="https://dragonscave.space/tags/FritzBox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FritzBox</span></a> in Germany, a box from <a href="https://dragonscave.space/tags/Free" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Free</span></a>, <a href="https://dragonscave.space/tags/SFR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SFR</span></a>, <a href="https://dragonscave.space/tags/Orange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Orange</span></a> or whatever else in France), which is kind of a router but really not only, it provides you Internet, TV, landline telephony and so on. and if you don't like the user interface or the box or it's not really accessible because you're blind like me, — you have no choice. You cannot say, like: I don't want a router made by X because their interface is crappy, let's go to a gadget store and buy a router made by Y because my blind friends told me those are accessible.<br>So my weird question is: Do you, who live in France, Germany, maybe other countries with such ISPs, buy custom routers at all? Like those usual from TPLink, DLink, Cisco, Zyxel, what have you? And if yes, why do you do that and how do you use them?<br>Thank you so much, I'm really really curious. <a href="https://dragonscave.space/tags/FediQuestion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FediQuestion</span></a> <a href="https://dragonscave.space/tags/Network" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Network</span></a> <a href="https://dragonscave.space/tags/Router" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Router</span></a></p>