Guys, my landlord has this router in the apartment I’m renting, there is no model name on the case, anyone knows how old it is?
Im guessing it’s very old and I would need to replace it for internet to be decent.
https://i.redd.it/x2b3jd0chsng1.jpeg
Posted by breadandches
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Not you, this is provider’s supplied, it belongs to them. You can ask your landlord to request a new router, which may or may not result in improvements.
You can ask them to dumb it down and connect your router after it
You can buy a decent router at Alta or something and just connect it to the router. I have silknet installed in my flat and prior to adding a new router, the connection was weak between devices and I rarely reached the bandwidth I’m paying for.
I’d suggest first contacting your landlord and asking about the plan to see if it’s even worth upgrading since in a low bandwidth plan there isn’t much benefit to buying a whole new router.
Then just go to Alta and pick up a decent router (I’d suggest tp-link there’s no point going overkill even the best wifi plans here aren’t nearly good enough to justify a high end router)
Then plug it in to the lan port on the existing router since I don’t think you can actually switch it out especially on a fiber optic line.
My internet now is fairly stable aside from a few issues on the provider’s side and when it is stable I can often stream while playing competitive games with no problem
It’s better to buy your own router and use it as a bridge; local routers are complete crap. I bought mine at pcshop.
Huawei EchoLife HG8546M
Which operator is better: Magti or Silknet?
Just buy a new router which you wish and ask the support to put this router into the bridge mode. In this mode it will work as a simple adapter forwarding all the traffic from optical port to one of the LAN-ports and vice versa. Plug this LAN-port into the WAN port of your router and that’s it.
If you do an image search you will see it is a Chinese model that is branded for different sellers. It can still be purchased, so it can’t be that old. Here is one webpage that gives quite a bit of detail
[https://manuals.plus/ae/1005005959845444](https://manuals.plus/ae/1005005959845444)