The average consumer should know to buy a router/modem of a better caliber with nothing less than a Linux kernel. Broadband is well beyond the point of saturation where your average user is going to know these things, and it’s entirely sensible that they should be able to rely on their provider for these things. Giz: “They say they don’t throttle me, but I know they do. When I come home and start-up my computer to download podcasts, I notice everything slow to a crawl. Today, it took 3 hours to download 4 30MB-ish podcasts””]
Source: https://gizmodo.com/65-000-time-warner-customers-exposed-to-remote-hacks-5386226