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* Privacy - the ISP, and anyone eavesdropping on the WAN circuit, will typically be able to see more info about what the subscriber equipment is doing. Those that care about this are likely to want their own equipment to protect it however.
* Privacy - the ISP, and anyone eavesdropping on the WAN circuit, will typically be able to see more info about what the subscriber equipment is doing. Those that care about this are likely to want their own equipment to protect it however.
* Packet header overhead - adding Ethernet frames will decrease the payload available.
* Packet header overhead - adding Ethernet frames will decrease the payload available.
* WAN loss effects more noticable - some subscribers may consider this an advantage.
* WAN loss effects more noticeable - some subscribers may consider this an advantage.
* Diagnostics - customer may not see what the ADSL line statistics such as SNR are, if the CPE is to be transparent.
* Diagnostics - customer may not see what the ADSL line statistics such as SNR are, if the CPE is to be transparent.
* Multicast - the ISP will get a copy of these unless filtered by the CPE, which will add to costs.
* Multicast - the ISP will get a copy of these unless filtered by the CPE, which will add to costs.
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