[cjsawyer]

Who else has an install base like Amazon in their Alexas and Rings? No TinyCorp could just decide to roll out a service like this. One of the few upsides of having giant companies is seeing the work of their equally big R&D departments

[walrus01]

> Who else has an install base like Amazon in their Alexas and Rings?

a company like Arris that sells DOCSIS3/3.1 cablemodems and GPON end user CPEs to big ISPs like Shaw, Comcast, Charter, Wave/RCN, etc. The main problem with that concept is that if a manufacturer of residential CPEs such as Arris made a unilateral decision to incorporate the tech into their cablemodems and other devices, their $BIGISP customers might not be pleased about it and would buy elsewhere.

[vaccinator]

Comcast already shares your internet connection with others if you rent your wifi router from them.

[walrus01]

yes, one of the reasons why I recommend anyone with a comcast connection go buy their own modem and run it as a dumb L2 bridge, into a separate user owned router. For technical people who know what they're doing I'm really not a fan of the idea of the modem also being a router and wifi AP.

[kevincox]

You can imagine that instead of always being sent to Amazon the network could just pop out regular IP on the other end which would be routed to the service of the origin device's choice. Of course this does add more complexity such as abuse prevention but it would make the protocol attractive even if it was designed by Amazon.

[ForHackernews]

Literally any major router brand?

[lxgr]

That would require the capability to reliably and automatically push firmware updates out to existing devices, not something that I'd traditionally associate with home router manufacturers.

Also, at least in my experience, most private households just use the (usually horrible) ISP supplied CPE.

[detaro]

Which typically are by one of the major router brands, and do typically have mechanisms for ISP-controlled updates.

[ignoramous]

> Who else has an install base like Amazon in their Alexas and Rings?

https://starry.com/ and https://volkfi.com/ are doing their bits.

[donalhunt]

Volkfi don't exactly inspire confidence. :/