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Title: Decent router modem recommendations
Post by: Polar Bear on 23 April, 2023, 02:11:51 pm

Nothing fancy.  Input from a filter plugged into a standard BT style landline telephone connection.

Needed if EE (BT?) Continue to fail to supply a replacement router to FiL.  It's been a week now.  Pretty poor service if you ask me.

Title: Re: Decent router modem recommendations
Post by: DaveJ on 23 April, 2023, 10:12:36 pm

TP-Link TD-W9960 (https://www.tp-link.com/uk/service-provider/dsl-router/td-w9960/) should do it.  You should be able to get one of these from under £30.

If you buy any third party router, you will need to configure it yourself.  BT do not seem unhappy for people to use their own router, but they do not provide any support for doing so.

Title: Re: Decent router modem recommendations
Post by: rafletcher on 24 April, 2023, 03:10:33 pm

Quote from: DaveJ on 23 April, 2023, 10:12:36 pm

TP-Link TD-W9960 (https://www.tp-link.com/uk/service-provider/dsl-router/td-w9960/) should do it.  You should be able to get one of these from under £30.

If you buy any third party router, you will need to configure it yourself.  BT do not seem unhappy for people to use their own router, but they do not provide any support for doing so.

EE seem more helpful

https://ee.co.uk/help/help-new/broadband-and-landline/home-broadband/how-do-i-use-my-own-router-for-home-broadband

Title: Re: Decent router modem recommendations
Post by: Polar Bear on 24 April, 2023, 03:25:39 pm

Many thanks.  That all looks very helpful.

Title: Re: Decent router modem recommendations
Post by: Polar Bear on 27 April, 2023, 09:26:13 am

Thankfully EE (BT) finally got their act together yesterday and fixed the line fault.  It wasn't the router modem after all.

Poor "diagnosis" by the Openreach engineer and 10 days outage to be compensated for.