• CallMeMrFlipper@lemmy.world
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    24 hours ago

    Care to explain what you mean? Are you saying you can run fiber in your house? Doesn’t that still require some form of equipment from an ISP to actually go out to the internet?

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      23 hours ago

      The fiber line into your house from the ISP is needed. What that fiber line connects to is up to you. The router your ISP provides isn’t special. You can get your own equipment.

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        23 hours ago

        I’m not super familiar with fiber. There’s no modem or anything needed? Don’t they still track data usage? Are they able to do that without any intermediate equipment?

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          6 hours ago

          Fiber that runs into your house can work with any fiber-ready router. So, yes, it’s a modem in a sense, but also does the router/wifi job as well.

          However, if you have Verizon or Huawei device on the end of your fiber line, your ISP can likely connect to that device, specifically for things like seeing if anyone is home. They don’t need to do that, as it’s only data for them to collect to work out advertising profiles.

          Once your data leaves your house and goes into their network, then it’s just your data on their network. Yes, they can see the data being routed, unless you use a VPN. So your options are going from your ISP able to see when you’re home, to not giving them access to anything and just paying the bill every month.