Pan.Kropa wrote: For me it's strange that they don't want to give ONT. Such a terminal is cheaper than a router. So it should be the other way around, they give a terminal by force and you should beg for a router.
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Not strange at all. They have remote diagnostics on their equipment, and the helpline chumps can sometimes tell you something about the equipment too. Especially if the customer is not so well-informed, the hotline will give them some basic information such as "what colour LEDc". On their own equipment, no non-networker will understand VLANs, for example, and if they buy equipment without VLANs on the WAN, they will call the operator and make problems, and in the end write bad reviews wherever they can. In addition, IPTV and telephony are already beyond the grasp of someone who is not professionally involved in networks. Of course, almost every customer is "frugal", so they'll buy the cheapest crap and again make problems for the operator and complain on forums that they only have X instead of Y bandwidth, but won't admit that the crap they bought doesn't do NAT, because they gave 120 PLN for the router, so it must be decent equipment.
And one more reason - for a funbox in the "main" Orange you pay a 5 PLN fee. If you have an ONT terminal and know the EU law, you can return the Funbox claiming net neutrality and choice of terminal equipment and get rid of the surcharge. If you don't have an ONT, or don't know the law, you pay extra.
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One more reason. With Funbox there is DS-Lite by default and hundreds of thousands or millions of IPv4 addresses saved by that. This is already a huge money maker for the operator. Such a configuration is not supported by almost any off-the-shelf hardware with default firmware.
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