The internet box young? After all, I’ve had the part for a year and a half, and development probably started a lot earlier. And so in a year and a half you can’t manage to implement a simple bridge mode? It can’t be such witchcraft, after all you’re relieving the internet box of numerous tasks, all it has to do is route through.
As far as I’m concerned, you can install a warning screen when switching to bridge mode that Swisscom does not offer support for this operating mode. I think any potential problems with SCTV will be alleviated with higher speeds, as there will be enough capacity left over for TV anyway.
Telephony isn’t an issue for me either, I don’t even have a subscription to SC, it’s done via a third-party VoIP provider. With VoIP, too, it is probably the case that the matter is hardly critical at higher speeds and the corresponding data traffic does not have to be specifically routed (QoS), since there is more than enough bandwidth anyway. In any case, I don’t have any problems making phone calls, even though I don’t use my landline network via the telephone sockets on the box, but rather operate an IP telephone on a LAN-Anschluss and haven’t made any special settings on the router.
But even if you ignore that: the Swisscom Internet box will never be as strong as the external antennas on some routers when it comes to WLAN. It is no coincidence that Netgear, for example, switched back to this design (external antennas) after trying with internal antennas for several generations of devices and then promptly losing out in numerous tests compared to the competition with visible antennas.
You only accept such a long development time like the one with IB because you as a customer can’t avoid it. As a “free” (Swisscom-unbound) router, the box wouldn’t look too good.
