Comment on Can I faraday cage my ISP-issued router in order to use my own?

AlexisFR@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• ares35@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  when the telco here ran fiber out to the edge of town where the schools are, they moved all the customers along that route to the new fiber (and disconnected them from the copper network at the same time). they offered internet speeds starting at '10 meg' (10mbps), going up to 1 gig (1000mbps). many customers chose the slowest and cheapest option (dsl over copper was topping-out at about 15mbit at the time), even though it was only like $20 more to get 100mbit.

  to this day, over a decade later, there's still customers on that 10mbps plan. and because the telco does telco things. those customers are paying the same rate (or more) as a new customer signing up for 100mbit (or the comparable 'fastest available' dsl on the copper lines, which is 60mbit these days). no automatic speed bump up, no discount for the slower plan, and zero communication about rates and options. the money flows in regardless, why tell the person giving it to you that they're getting shafted.

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  • pedro@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’m always amazed at how much you pay for internet in the US and Canada. Here in France, fiber vs copper is usually the same price maybe a 5-10 euros/month difference depending on the ISP

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    • Treczoks@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It is a monopoly issue. In the US, the companies have the monopoly on political control, not the people. That is the main reason ISPs are so f-ed up. The literally outlawed competition.

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    • Shanedino@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Am in US, it’s probably just area dependant, u see a similar price discrepancy where I am at.

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  • Shortstack@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I don’t know the full history of my isp but this sounds about right, looks like I could pay a little more for a good bump in speed.

    I’ll probably just go ahead with that but set up my own router anyway because there’s other benefits besides prioritizing traffic

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• USSEthernet@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Bridge mode isn’t necessary as long as you make sure the IP of the new 3rd party router is different than the ISP router’s.

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• Yendor@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Also to answer your question, it won’t work if you can’t set the ISP router to bridge mode if you want to run your own router.

  Just use the new router in AP mode, or just buy an AP.

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• grabyourmotherskeys@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Could be some rural area or a budget plan with low bandwidth. Both are fairly common among people I’m acquainted with.

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• Shortstack@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Now that a day and the annoyance have passed and many replies have pointed out, there’s clearly better ways to solve this.

  One being I should probably pay a bit more for the not hugely throttled connection speed, or ask the ISP to set their router to bridge mode. But probably both.

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