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Topic # 201353 15-Aug-2016 11:09

We have recently had fibre laid in our area. Countless Broadband suppliers have made maildrops asking to be considered as our preferred internet supplier, with most if not all offering deals. Most (maybe all) offer a free modem.

We have Voip phones and when we installed them we needed a new modem and have a TP Link 300Mbps Wireless N ADSL 2+ modem router

Model TD-VG3631

Because we have a near new router which works well on copper lines, do we need a new router for fibre?

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Reply # 1611814 15-Aug-2016 11:09

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Reply # 1611837 15-Aug-2016 11:27

Your current modem will work as one of the Ethernet Ports can be used as a WAN port (EWAN).

After a quick search it seems that that router also supports VLAN tagging, so should work with all flavours of UFB.

If you go with Bigpipe, they don't require VLAN tagging, so it should work fine with them.

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Reply # 1611848 15-Aug-2016 11:40

100 megabit, and on ones when you use the lan port as a wan port there can be other congestion issues in the internal switch that make it not able to even get the full 100 meg each way.

If you go on the cheapest slowest fiber plan it will be fine, but a half decent one or better, it is a potential bottleneck.

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Reply # 1611854 15-Aug-2016 11:46

And isn't the router offered by Vodafone, Spark, and BigPipe wireless AC as opposed to N? That would make it better than what you have anyway.

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Reply # 1612155 15-Aug-2016 19:27

Thanks guys. Maybe will get a new router.