You can call your ISP with any arbitrary piece of non-branded random AliExpress $#@$ of a network eq. and they must walk you through configuring it? That does not make much sense to me.
Parent note that the ISP provide a router anyway. It's safe to assume that most people will simply use that, if not for the support just because it is already there.
Yeah this. My mom isn't ever going to add a 3rd party router. Even most of the technical people I know (well paid python devs, etc.) probably wouldn't mess the on-prem ISP gear.
I do network engineering for a living, so I totally would, but I'm an outlier compared to the rest of the population.
You can call your ISP with any arbitrary piece of non-branded random AliExpress $#@$ of a network eq. and they must walk you through configuring it? That does not make much sense to me.