I'm guessing more (and perhaps bigger) boats go to the US than AU from China. Economies of scale and all that. Plus US customers are typically engaged in a race to the bottom where price is concerned (although Apple products seem to be excluded from this, at least w.r.t other vendors).

By that logic, so does a cow.

Coincidentally right around the time funding for the CDC is about to be cut.

Two points:
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Remind me never to eat at your house ;), and

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I think you typoed "more profitable". Simple mistake to make, the keys are right next to each other.

Ah, I was waiting for the ad hominem. You have successfully shown you have run out of ways to answer the wrong question. I suggest you re-read every message in this thread, and try to figure out how that happened.

If she's that paranoid, she'll learn how, or find someone to do it for her. Good thing she has an android where this sort of thing is out in the open, and she has the option of changing her software!

That's all very exciting, but a) I bought my modem from MicroCenter and qesturylink knows nothing about the WIFI side of it, and b) centuryqwest knows nothing about the WIFI side of it. So again, perhaps you can answer my question: why does your upstream ISP's router KNOW or CARE about the __WIFI__ side of your modem? And if said modem has a single ethernet port connected to <whatever>, and *that* whatever has a WIFI radio, how does the ISP's router KNOW or CARE about that WIFI interface's MAC address?

You say "ISP needs to know your device's MAC to ensure people don't fuck with shit". That is not under dispute, but you seem to be conflating the WIFI interface with the ISP's connection to your modem, which are (unless you have a WISP, and somehow are communicating with said WISP _and_ local devices over the same radio) completely separate.

ISP <---------> [ISP-side (DSL or cable connection) modem WIFI] <--------> local devices (laptop, etc).

Please, tell me HOW or WHY your ISP should care about the WIFI interface there? You can't, can you? Do you even understand the question?

*its* godsdammit. The internet has ruined me :(

Yes, that's fine, but why is your modem sending it's WIFI-side MAC upstream to the router, and not the router-side MAC? Does the device not have two interfaces? What am I missing here? My shitty whatever-the-hell-it-is-brand wifi DSL modem has a WIFI interface and a DSL interface with two different MACs. Pretty damn sure that centuryqwestlink doesn't know (or care) about the WIFI side.

What is your modem doing sending its WIFI MAC to the upstream DSL/ Cable router in the first place?

Liar! Your middle name is Not!

You act like that is somehow wrong.

No, unlimited means "without limit"; the entitlement comes from the contract - a contract guaranteeing me X means I am *entitled* to X. Regardless of your particular world view, those words have meaning.

Well, to be fair, there were policemen there.