We finally replaced our phone & Internet setup of <Wi-Fi router + modem + wireless phone base station> with a single all-in-one AVM router (Fritz!Box), and if I’d known how good such devices are, I would’ve bought them a decade earlier. Not only does this remove so many interfaces and cables and power adapters and points of failure, it also gives you all the diagnostic features in one device, which makes it much much easier to resolve problems yourself.
Before, any problem with our Internet connection was incredibly frustrating to diagnose because it might be caused by the router, or the modem (neither of which, incidentally, had good logging or diagnostic capabilities), or the cable from the Internet providor to the modem, or the connection between router and modem, etc. etc.
Now, that stuff is all in one device, and diagnostics is so much easier: if I can’t login to the router from any of my devices, it must be a problem with the router. And if I can reach the router, I can run the comprehensive on-device diagnostic tools, which can in turn tell me where the problem is and even what to do about it.
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We finally replaced our phone & Internet setup of <Wi-Fi router + modem + wireless phone base station> with a single all-in-one AVM router (Fritz!Box), and if I’d known how good such devices are, I would’ve bought them a decade earlier. Not only does this remove so many interfaces and cables and power adapters and points of failure, it also gives you all the diagnostic features in one device, which makes it much much easier to resolve problems yourself.
Before, any problem with our Internet connection was incredibly frustrating to diagnose because it might be caused by the router, or the modem (neither of which, incidentally, had good logging or diagnostic capabilities), or the cable from the Internet providor to the modem, or the connection between router and modem, etc. etc.
Now, that stuff is all in one device, and diagnostics is so much easier: if I can’t login to the router from any of my devices, it must be a problem with the router. And if I can reach the router, I can run the comprehensive on-device diagnostic tools, which can in turn tell me where the problem is and even what to do about it.