Re: The old way
> Most likely they will just not provide you their support (not a huge loss) but they could conceivably degrade your service for the remainder of your contract without you having much recourse.
This is a problem on LLU ADSL lines for sure but not so much on fibre. ISPs tend to choose ADSL modem / routers with chip-sets that play nicest with the brand of DSLAM they've installed in the exchange, the T&Cs are usually there to make their lives easier by stopping you from installing something random that might not work as well.
With fibre the man from OpenReach comes round and connects the modem to the master socket and does the business in the cabinet; the actual connection bit is all done in the white box. After that it's just a standard PPPoE connection to whatever networking equipment you want.
Some ISP provided modem / routers have a bridge mode anyway. My old BeBox certainly did.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
