Hi Mr W,
I'm afraid it's the nature of the beast to have to focus on the negatives to be able to enjoy the positives, nothing is ever going to be foolproof tbh but it's how companies react when a hole is discovered and my ability to counter it fast. That D-link modem that was issued to me was probably the worst piece of IT equipment I've ever experienced & expected to last forever without any updates, when I asked for a new router because I could see the D-Link was past it's sell by date the answer was no which led me to return to using my own. That thing helped put me where I am today with things as although I didn't know what one was at the time it was constantly being attacked through denial of service attacks & a few other things I won't go into which led me to going back to my own router again. The Sagecom units I've been sent since are better maintained but lack even the most basic ways of preventing interference from both inside & outside of the home config wise.
The phone would still not be there when you got back even if you'd turned it off and in the old days removed the battery & simply by (not giving ppl ideas) would dismiss any sort of chance of tracking it or getting it back.
On a positive I wouldn't have considered the Ubi equipment had you not mentioned it, you've piqued my interest in one now but I won't be getting one until I've done some more background on it but atm it looks the most feature rich unit out there at the price point & head & shoulders above the usual suspects, what is the wifi range like on them btw?
The reason I don't like cloud apps isn't because I feel the cloud isn't maintained properly it's simply because I don't want things like my family pictures, utility bills etc etc in any other hands other than my own even if they are allegedly encrypted, same applies with social media. You have to remember for every lock invented there had to be an inventor and that means physical or digital it's always going to have a way to pick it or reverse engineer it, the digital one is only practical because of the time it takes to pick it currently assuming the digits selected by the end user are also up to a good standard. Time will change this once the next gen computer chips that can crunch many times faster are on the market, Quantum?
All I'm looking for right now is the ability to not be locked into one router in particular, if Chris comes back with "it can't be done" then I'll have to weigh up the options and go from there and that doesn't mean toys out of the pram and leave but had I known I'd be getting a locked ONT I would've stayed on copper for now as I don't need fast BB to do what I use the net for, the pages take the same time to load and the only real upside I can see is updates are faster and the bandwidth for others in the home better for streaming tv channels, myself I didn't really need it as the contention on my copper line wasn't high so I got the max speed it was able to deliver most of the day anyway.
Onta.
