What's up with this? Just lately have had a string of installs get held up because Chorus wouldn't come onsite without the router being available. We got in to a habit of not sending routers until the install was confirmed as we don't want routers to sit at a customer site for months in case it goes missing etc.

But now Chorus are being stubborn about even installing the ONT without the router onsite. They used to just do a traffic test to confirm the circuit was good.

Main reason I don't want Chorus to muck around with the routers is because the complete lack of competency the vast majority of techs have and don't want them mucking around with networks - these are all small business installs. Example: Had one the other day where the Chorus tech found an old Spark router, removed our draytek/mikrotk combo from the network and put the Spark router in place. Of course this caused a butt load of issues with the phone system, file server and VPN to remote site.

I can maybe understand in a residential situation but they shouldn't even be touching stuff on the "LAN" side of the ONT as far as I'm concerned.