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Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Charles Stanhope"):
pho4cexa@tiny.tilde.website ("p̸h̴o̸⁴c̵e̴ₓa̵") wrote:
TIL
1. us congress recently passed a law to make it illegal for ISPs to charge an equipment fee on hardware that you already own, yay
2. at&t fiber-to-the-home evades this by placing secret authentication keys into their otherwise standard combo wifi router + ont (fiber modem).
so you ahem, could, wink, use your own equipment, but the service won't work when you do 🤢