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Here in the US the CPE provided by ISPs is almost universally barely functional and low quality. For fiber connections the actual interconnect hardware might be better quality. The box I have has some nice Alcatel-Lucent hardware.

The software running on these things is usually garbage.

Typically people will get routers from their ISP, and their ISP often charges a monthly fee. The ISP is then responsible for troubleshooting and updates. Except for network management related updates, my experience has been that they don’t often (or sometimes ever) issue updates. ISPs here expect most people will never directly interface with the router’s management functionality so it’s often very basic and clunky.

In my home we put any CPE we get into pass through mode and connect our own rack of professional network gear.