Accountants are involved in the decisions of what router to supply "for free" - it will be the one that they can get at lowest cost per unit. But remember price is not linearly proportional to the quality.

All your other posts seem to point at massive wireless congestion in your location - you could have the best performing wireless system ever but since radio is a shared medium, it will still perform suboptimally where you are. Ye cannae defy the laws of physics.

Sure but there must be "wiggle room" between the providers offerings?

Never had a problem with ADSL, but I guess the forced installation of fibre is done without thought to what customers get for the extra money they are compelled to spend?

Edited by hk11 (Fri 28-Jul-23 15:39:07)

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Never had a problem with ADSL

Those who use to live in caves didn't either but other than Mr Fan Caveman no one else is complaining.

There are some very nice caves about. :-

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=k__jV62Yv_0

Not so you'd notice realistically - unless you have someone like Zen providing an off-the-shelf device that you could otherwise buy yourself) - the devices that are offered are either unique to them (Sky, BT) or slightly different to the standard model (custom firmware etc).

So in summary: no real difference between ISP suplied routers?

I know Plusnet supply a re-badged BT router, but apart from that .....

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I was unsure about getting a router with my new order as I read you had to request one.

Of course it matters; the main reason for changing providers was to get the best out of the new line.

As far as i know, most ISP send a router to new customers.

In reply to a post by hk11:

So in summary: no real difference between ISP suplied routers?

I know Plusnet supply a re-badged BT router, but apart from that .....

Plusnet router as far as i know is internally the same as the BT one, but uses different firmware. On my Plusnet router i preferred the firmware than the one that is in BT routers. BT routers are full of gunk that is not needed.

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Those who use to live in caves didn't either but other than Mr Fan Caveman no one else is complaining.

I never had any faults with ADSL apart from the speed or lack of it. Oh with AOL I had a problem, for some reason they could not get the speed to 3Mb/s and i ended up as slow as when I first had ADSL with 512Kb/s, so I dumped them after a month.
But apart from that it was pretty reliable for me, so was FTTC for that matter, apart from one issue I had.

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There are some very nice caves about. :-

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=k__jV62Yv_0

Now that I like.