If it ain’t totally, wholly, and irreparably broke, don’t fix it is my motto. My router is really that jacked up but it still has 2 1gbps ethernet ports and the 2.4GHz wifi so it’s mostly whatever
Why wouldn’t you just have your ISP send you a new one at that point
Surely you’re just an “it broken” phonecall and 2 days of shipping away from a better time?
(Assuming you’re not rocking your own bought router, in which case ignore me)
We have fiber to the premises in our little 12 unit condo building. They installed a switch and all that, that’s theirs, the CAT runs in the walls are the association’s, and anything inside our walls is on us, including the router, but it still works and I’m too lazy to shell out on another quite yet. It’s really quite a layout since everyone has a little bit of responsibility at different points in the building.
Edit: The thought of running CAT6 through a surge protector never crossed my mind but apparently it’s a thing, copper and all
Do most people rent the ISP provided router these days? I’m a network engineer so I would never ever do that but obviously not everyone wants to deal with it. I just assumed most people would buy their own since doing so would eliminate that $5/month and pays for itself pretty quickly.