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Plusnets fiber router, cost ?

MadBloris
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Plusnets fiber router, cost ?

Hi.

I was with TalkTalk and used my own W9980 router, since switching to plus my connection has been a little dodgy.
I declined the plus router when signing up, so I'm thinking of buying it now, to rule out my own hardware.

Can anyone tell me how much the router costs to existing customers.

Thanks in advance
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dvorak
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Re: Plusnets fiber router, cost ?

if you ring and ask nicely they may let you have one for just the postage as you didn't take it at sign up.. if not it's £100 at which point you'd be better off buying a different one yourself.
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Re: Plusnets fiber router, cost ?

Quote from: dvorak
they may let you have one for just the postage as you didn't take it at sign up.

Providing you're in the first 3 months of your contract. It won't be a problem to get a router sent out for the £6.99 p&p Smiley
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MadBloris
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Re: Plusnets fiber router, cost ?

Yeah I'm outside (just) urgh. So for anyone searching is 40 notes plus delivery.
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Re: Plusnets fiber router, cost ?

It's not £40, the agent has completely misadvised you there. It's £100 I'm afraid.
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MadBloris
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Re: Plusnets fiber router, cost ?

That's some top top top support right there, firstly I can't get the 'free' router, I kinda understand that, although I didn't get any reductions for not having it! But then to have supportquote the wrong price both verbally and in email.
Nice going.


Although thanks for the speedy (disappointing) reply on here though, lesson learned, don't trust tech on the phone
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daro2096
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Re: Plusnets fiber router, cost ?

If Plusnet are still supplying the old fibre routers then I would say don't bother as they are un reliable. I got two fibre plusnet routers and neither of them work. I went back to my old router which works with fibre. You just have to input your plusnet username and password and your primary and secondary IP addresses which you will find on your member pages(like view your usage and phone bill, etc).
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If you're after a reliable, high quality router then you're probably going about it the wrong way. ISPs supply routers to cater for people who don't feel technically competent enough to set their own router up (or simply don't want the hassle). Support staff are also usually trained in how their routers work so in some cases can offer a better level of support to those users using them.
But as far as quality goes they are typically the cheapest, least featured devices that the ISP can find. That is likely to be especially true for those routers which are given to users for less than cost price. PN don't typically charge their customers for these routers so common sense ought to tell you that they are not going to be high quality ultra-dependable state of the art devices.
If you can get one for P&P it might be worth a punt but generally speaking all modems are equal. VDSL is a well documented standard and there are only a couple of different chipset manufacturers around. The case might have more or fewer LEDs but the electronic gubbins inside is probably the same. Frankly I doubt that a change of modem/router will make any difference. The only reason for changing is to get more features on the router (eg; better port forward, QoS or firewall). The only reason for changing the modem is to get a combined modem/router unit although even there personally I like having them separate. It means I can power cycle my router and not worry about upsetting DLM.
daro2096
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Re: Plusnets fiber router, cost ?

My router is the Linksys WRT120N router. It is an old model though and even though there is nothing about it working with fibre it does work with fibre.
MadBloris
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Re: Plusnets fiber router, cost ?

Oh absolutely I wouldn't usually use an ISP supplied router, but money is right at the moment and it seemed an easy way to rule out my own hardware.
I will shell out for a new VDSL box as I have to and run out my contract if it does not improve the connection
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My router is the Linksys WRT120N router. It is an old model though and even though there is nothing about it working with fibre it does work with fibre.
All routers will work with all 'fibre' as well as ADSL services. In fact they won't notice any difference as the WAN will be being presented to them over Ethernet (that's what the modem does - it converts <something> into Ethernet(*). The only problem you might have with an older router originally bought for an ADSL service is that the throughput of an FTTC service might too high for the router. Routers have to process and route packets and an ageing router may simply not have enough CPU power or RAM to keep pace with a decent FTTC connection.
(*)Combined boxes simply have the connection between modem and router done on their motherboard whereas separate boxes have a socket to plug a cable into.
daro2096
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Re: Plusnets fiber router, cost ?

eBay sells the router I am using second hand. £5 though there are no UK sellers that I could see.
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Re: Plusnets fiber router, cost ?

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My router is the Linksys WRT120N router. It is an old model though and even though there is nothing about it working with fibre it does work with fibre.
All routers will work with all 'fibre' as well as ADSL services. In fact they won't notice any difference as the WAN will be being presented to them over Ethernet (that's what the modem does - it converts <something> into Ethernet(*). The only problem you might have with an older router originally bought for an ADSL service is that the throughput of an FTTC service might too high for the router. Routers have to process and route packets and an ageing router may simply not have enough CPU power or RAM to keep pace with a decent FTTC connection.
(*)Combined boxes simply have the connection between modem and router done on their motherboard whereas separate boxes have a socket to plug a cable into.

It copes with 38mb fibre connection fine but I am using a wired eternet connection. I don't know how it performs over wifi.
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Re: Plusnets fiber router, cost ?

You often get the new Hub One on eBay for around £30-£40
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