When we contract a fiber and mobile rate, or just Internet, a technician will always come to install the service that we have contracted with a particular operator. However, there are many problems with the routers provided to us by the telephone companies. Among them, one of the weakest points of these devices is found in the WiFi connection they offer.
But, it is not the only downside that we can find when using the router of your operator . For this reason, we are going to see a series of points in which we will see, thanks to a network expert, why you should not continue using the device that your telephone company gives you totally free.
Poor WiFi connection
One of the worst points why it is better not to use an operator’s router is the simple fact that the WiFi connection will not be as good. Something as basic as good coverage or the speed that the wireless connection has to offer us, the truth is that the companies’ own devices are weak and a lot.
For this very reason, Sergio de Luz, a network expert and director of RedesZone, recommends us to set up a high-performance network at the domestic level thanks to the WiFi Mesh systems that we can easily find today and at a price that is not as high as we would think. In this way, we will notice ” a huge difference in real coverage and WiFi speed “.
Few configuration options
In general, the home routers that different companies give us offer different configurations, but as advanced as other models that we can purchase on our own. And we don’t need to buy an expensive router either , as Sergio de Luz comments, ” there are Mikrotik routers that allow you to carry out this type of configuration without problems and they are quite cheap “. So there are no excuses.
There are different manufacturers such as ASUS or AVM that have an important repertoire of routers that offer us the necessary configurations and, above all, more specific ones, so that we can get to have the possibility of setting up a WiFi Mesh network, configuring VPN servers without problems or WiFi network configurations, such as configuring DNS with the DoT protocol .
No multigigabit ports
Another point where these routers are weak is found in their ports. Normally, they usually arrive with few Ethernet ports . Depending on the needs of each user, the four ports that we generally find in these routers, the truth is that they may be insufficient. Although, as expressed by Sergio de Luz, he, for example, needs many more, since ” I have a lot of equipment connected by cable, computers, NAS servers and much more devices “.
And not only this, but we will run out of Multigigabit ports, something that will be necessary if we want to take advantage of the maximum speed if we have more than 1 Gbps . Few operators in Spain offer routers capable of this. We only find Digi or Orange that offer routers with these ports, either 2.5G or 10G, at their 10 Gbps fiber rates .
