Woah... I had never heard of SFP slots/devices before. It looks like they're great at converting between mediums. If I could get an SFP device that had RJ45 output, that would be the dream
That's a chunky house warmer, let alone shelf warmer!
I can understand that ISP's need to protect their security (through obscurity) so that no one's going around cloning their neighbors analog signals to score free internet... but surely the actual hardware to do the tone pairing / channel matching analog-to-digital-magic-mumbo-jumbo does not need to be the size of a brick?
In the spirit of people cutting open Nintendo Wii's shearing down the chip and making compact versions[0], has no one isolated the hardware on a modem, chucked out the routing stuff, and compacted the whole device to be no bigger than a USB stick?
I do, they're all TP-Link devices which is a company that makes solid solid hardware, but they have sketchy links to foreign state cyber attacks[0]. I don't mind having a dumb switch from TP-Link that I can just network devices together locally and forbid it from having internet access via the router.
Everyonewill be treatedjust the same