In reply to a post by Andrue:

You are overthinking it. It's just another consumer electronics box. They are all about equal in terms of reliability and most likely performance as well. Routers can have differences (routing speed, wifi performance) but a modem is a modem. Yes, pairing chipset to cabinet is the ideal but everything is built to the same internationally agreed standard. If there is any difference resulting from a mismatch it'll likely be small.

It's barely worth any more thought than you'd put into buying a microwave oven.

Why?

It may have been the case in the early days as algorithms were refined but now it does not matter. Of the four modems I have here the two ECI ones give higher speeds than the Huawei ones and I am on a Huawei cabinet. The odem should be chosen for the functionality it has and how that meets the users needs or requirements.

In reply to a post by MHC:

In reply to a post by Andrue:

You are overthinking it. It's just another consumer electronics box. They are all about equal in terms of reliability and most likely performance as well. Routers can have differences (routing speed, wifi performance) but a modem is a modem. Yes, pairing chipset to cabinet is the ideal but everything is built to the same internationally agreed standard. If there is any difference resulting from a mismatch it'll likely be small.

It's barely worth any more thought than you'd put into buying a microwave oven.

Why?

It may have been the case in the early days as algorithms were refined but now it does not matter. Of the four modems I have here the two ECI ones give higher speeds than the Huawei ones and I am on a Huawei cabinet. The odem should be chosen for the functionality it has and how that meets the users needs or requirements.

Which is what I posted. Thanks for reposting it. What part of ' If there is any difference resulting from a mismatch it'll likely be small' is confusing you?

Edited by Andrue (Sun 01-Oct-17 18:23:13)