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Originally Posted by qasdfdsaq
Neither Be or Sky *force* you to use their CPE and only their CPE though. In Sky's case the modem is separate and you can use whatever router you want (granted, it's difficult to find a compatible one) and in Be's case, you can use whatever modem you want as well. In fact many users have succeeded in replacing the modem on Sky Fibre with their own as well.
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I have been provided with the very latest sky hub (sr-101) and my connection uses mac encapsulated routing (MER) which requires the hard coded and encrypted sky username and password to be extracted and used to hack a 3rd party Router to enable it to connect to the BTO modem.
To date no one has been able to crack the sr-101 so ATM the only way to use a 3rd party router is to piggy back it onto the sr-101. This what I am using ATM and it seems to work well. Much better that using the sr-101 on it's own.
As for Sky "forcing" subs to use sky's supplied equipment, well it is in the T&C's although to date I am told it has never been enforced.