• 9point6@lemmy.world
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        3 months ago

        Why wouldn’t you just have your ISP send you a new one at that point

        Surely you’re just an “it broken” phonecall and 2 days of shipping away from a better time?

        (Assuming you’re not rocking your own bought router, in which case ignore me)

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          3 months ago

          Do most people rent the ISP provided router these days? I’m a network engineer so I would never ever do that but obviously not everyone wants to deal with it. I just assumed most people would buy their own since doing so would eliminate that $5/month and pays for itself pretty quickly.

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            3 months ago

            You guys rent routers? lol what. That just sounds like a massive scam unless you’re getting Ubiquiti kit or something, most ISP routers over here probably cost about £10 to manufacture

            They’re just free with your internet subscription in the UK. It won’t be the most amazing thing in the world, but it’ll be some Technicolour, Netgear or D-Link thing that does dual band wifi and handle <20 clients.

            If you want something better you can obviously buy your own

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              3 months ago

              I don’t rent routers but it is a common offering. I don’t know how many people do it though.

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                3 months ago

                Oh sorry, I didn’t mean “you” singular, rather that people in your country do that.

                I’d be interested to know how many go for that, because it feels kinda exploitative to me.

                Do you happen to know if the people that do go for this at least get better than the lowest-end stuff?

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                  3 months ago

                  Yeah I get you. It’s usually in the cable ISP context and the box is a modem / router combination. So not exactly comparable to low tier routers but they’re not particularly fancy either. You get your coax cable in, five Cat-5 ports, and 2.4 / 5.8 GHz wireless depending on the model. I’m not familiar enough with them to be more specific than that.

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            3 months ago

            I get a free one from Verizon with FiOS that’s actually pretty decent, especially considering it’s free. Triband, the webui is decent, and aside from an issue that required rebooting every few days that got fixed pretty quickly it’s been pretty stable.

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            3 months ago

            Spectrum around here tries to mandate that you use their combo modem/router, it was a legit PITA to get them to accept the modem their website said was supported, because god forbid they don’t get that extra $10/mo or whatever.

            Frontier fiber gave us an Amazon Eero, which I promptly gave to a friend, and installed my Ubiquiti gear.

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              3 months ago

              I messed with the spectrum router my parents got a few months ago and that thing made me so mad. They intentionally locked the gui so that you had to call them to make any real changes. You even had to download their app to change the SSID and password. I wanted to throw it in the garbage so bad.

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                3 months ago

                THANK YOU. On my own fucking gear, I should be able to type in 192.168.1.1, admin, password, and at least work the basics myself. But spectrum thinks not so much, and for that, they can go fuck themselves.

                I know I could’ve bridge the router to my own and subnetted around it, but for real? They can gobble a crate of dicks.