Advice on first home router(possible modem?) (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 months ago by CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world to c/homenetworking@selfhosted.forum

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So the hub provided by my ISP is really old and bottlenecky at this point, they would charge as much to replace it as to buy my own so I figure better to own my own hardware than get some bare minnimum functionality piece of branded plastic right?

I'm in the UK so my connection setup is a single ethernet port in the wall with a splitter to connect the phone and talk talk hub via LAN cable.

A quick google tells me Asus is a good brand but I'm not sure if I just need a router or if I need to get a combi router/modem.

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[-] rglullis@communick.news 2 points 2 months ago

By your description, it seems you are on DSL. Is that the case? Likely you will need a DSL modem.

[-] CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

~~Would something like this work?~~ https://www.tp-link.com/uk/home-networking/dsl-modem-router/archer-vx1800v/#specifications
~~From what I'm able to discern it still supports wifi 5/.ac standard which is helpful since not all pcs in the house can handle wifi .ax standard and should be a damn side better than an ISP provided router.~~

Nevermind despite having Modem in its name it cannot actually function as a modem according to their own tech support forum. Back to square one.

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