Why would you use your isps WiFi router?
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ElectroLisa@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
See ya in 5 years when ISPs will start providing WiFi 7 enabled routers
krolden@lemmy.ml 11 months ago
fidodo@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I’m surprisingly super happy with my current one. I got ATT fiber and was planning on swapping out their router and adding an access point but it’s actually great and covered my entire house including the garage and back yard, and they don’t charge a monthly fee for it.
krolden@lemmy.ml 11 months ago
And ATT will share your WiFi psk with the feds.
fidodo@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Well if the feds are after you you’re probably pretty fucked. I doubt using your own router is going to prevent them from getting what they want.
teamevil@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Sometimes it comes with your condos homeowners fees, regardless of what you want.
guacupado@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Yeah, no one’s talking about wifi 7 because it’s not even close to taking off yet.
fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Google fiber and any other ISP that offers 1gbit or greater speeds are already giving with 6 routers, and 7 is soon to follow. Wifi 7 is already planned for Google Fiber and I know others have it on the way. Basically any ISP offering >1gbit speeds is going to have a wifi 7 router soon.
BananaTrifleViolin@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Why would you use your ISPs router? Mine is set to modem mode an do have my own router which is far better quality and also totally under my control security wise.
ElectroLisa@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
Because most of the time they don’t let you, or make it super difficult to set up
Additionally, most end users aren’t tech savvy and just use whatever was given by the ISP
JudahBenHur@lemm.ee 11 months ago
I dunno, we plugged ours into the other modem and it worked immediately
ElectroLisa@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
Key words: “most of the time”. There are exceptions to this obviously