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#318343 8-Jan-2025 16:39
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Contract is up with current ISP and looking at Quic. Will need to purchase a router. Have looked at Quic support and they point you to PB Tech and Go Wireless but would be interested in others experiences with routers. My use case is 2 person household, streaming Netflix, Neon YouTube, email and general surfing. No gaming. Have a number of IOT devices connected ie Solar, weather station, robot vacuum. Currently have 3 Ethernet connected devices ie Apple TV, Smart TV and desktop PC. Thanks in advance for any experiences or suggestions.


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  #3329314 8-Jan-2025 19:27
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I moved from Skinny so am on the Spark Smart Modem V1 which works fine. They are often going cheap on Trade Me. 




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  #3329371 8-Jan-2025 20:35
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I'm using a FritzBox that I picked up cheap off someone here.... think it was @michaelmurfy ?





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  #3329372 8-Jan-2025 20:43
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You could use almost anything but Netcomm on IPoE/DHCP (they do route PPP gig just fine) due to not following the RFC1918 (I believe this is the faulting issue).

 

But as others said... you could use anything as long as it meets your needs now (unless you can't keep it due to rental agreements with your LSP).





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  #3329436 9-Jan-2025 08:40
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you can provision Quic up with the same config as the LSP so it will just "keep going" when you move connection

 

That is the beauty you can chose PPPoE/IPoE Tagged/Untagged so all four flavors of LSP work





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  #3330263 11-Jan-2025 15:15
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Thanks. I had the Orbi RBR350 provided by 2 degrees running at the time Quic provision started. As advised had VLAN set to 10. No other changes. Cutover was flawless and now on Quic. Have bought a Spark Smart  Modem 3 to replace the Orbi as it has to be returned. The Smart Modem 3 is installed and running now. Again a very easy process. The only thing I did is disable DHCP authentication in the Quic site, thus meaning authentication is via PPPoE. 


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