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Author Topic: How many modems or routers do you own?  (Read 1297 times)

vultura

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How many modems or routers do you own?
« on: February 16, 2019, 06:58:53 PM »

Just curious if anyone else seems to accumulate them.....

Not a definitive list -

Asus RT-N66U
PlusNet Hub One
BT Business Smart Hub
Zyxel VMG8924
ECI FUb/r
HG612
Netgear DM200
Technicolor TG582N
Zyxel NBG4604
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Re: How many modems or routers do you own?
« Reply #1 on: February 16, 2019, 08:00:32 PM »

Probably too many . . .
  • 10 modem/routers
  • 2 pure routers
  • 0 pure modems
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Westie

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Re: How many modems or routers do you own?
« Reply #2 on: February 16, 2019, 08:53:07 PM »

Not as many as some...
  • 3 modem/routers
  • 1 pure router
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adrianw

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Re: How many modems or routers do you own?
« Reply #3 on: February 16, 2019, 10:32:40 PM »

Too many!
They accumulate and I don't want to dig them out to enumerate them.
I had a clear out a couple of years ago, amongst others getting rid of a couple of Courier HSTs (large and little) and an ISDN router.
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banger

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Re: How many modems or routers do you own?
« Reply #4 on: February 17, 2019, 12:12:07 AM »

Too many too. Got to have spares. :)
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tubaman

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Re: How many modems or routers do you own?
« Reply #5 on: February 19, 2019, 11:22:38 AM »

I think I only have five spares (all different types) - you can't be too careful on these things! :-[
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Re: How many modems or routers do you own?
« Reply #6 on: February 19, 2019, 04:30:16 PM »

8 ZyXEL VMG 1312-10A modem-routers (configured as modems)
~6 DLink DSL320B-Z1 modem-routers (configured as modems)
1 Firebrick FB2700 router
1 Firebrick FB2500 router
3 ZyXEL NWA3560-N WAPs
2 Cisco WAPs
several TP-LINK WAPs
1 Netgear DG834v3 modem-router
1 Juniper Netscreen modem-router with 2 ADSL2 modules fitted in it
~2 ZyXEL P660R-D1 modems - I think
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Re: How many modems or routers do you own?
« Reply #7 on: February 19, 2019, 07:09:37 PM »

Just the one BT supplied modem, and one router, a billion 7800DXL.

I did have some spare modem/routers until Fibre came along 3 or 4 years ago.   But none were Fibre capable, so all went in the council’s waste electrical skip.  It felt good driving home that day, knowing I had a little less junk in the cupboards. :)

Although all of my router collection before the clearout still “seemed to work”,  when I took the lids off,  most had obvious capacitor failures so the skip was the right place for them, imo, component-level repair being not an attractive option on modern electronics.

If you asked how many 1960s/70s transistor radios I have, that would be a different story.   All laboriously restored by your truly, and fully working, with batteries installed ready for service. :blush:
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Re: How many modems or routers do you own?
« Reply #8 on: February 20, 2019, 07:06:56 AM »

Where are we getting too in the top ten hoarders now then  ;)

More contenders yet to come though, possibly
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tubaman

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Re: How many modems or routers do you own?
« Reply #9 on: February 20, 2019, 08:30:34 AM »

8 ZyXEL VMG 1312-10A modem-routers (configured as modems)
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No wonder these are now hard to get and the price has gone through the roof - Weaver has stockpiled them.
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Re: How many modems or routers do you own?
« Reply #10 on: February 20, 2019, 05:18:29 PM »

What tubaman said.
I’m afraid that’s true. Literally. :-(

They were going through the roof anyway though, that’s why I got some. But I have four lines and get very frequent damage due to lightning near misses and EPR because the lines are so long. So I always stockpile spares so I can swap modems out immediately. Same with the DLinks that I have been using.

There are some going cheap on eBay right now iirc. Saw one at £15 I think.
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