On Thu, 3 Nov 2016 09:11:05 +0000, Ian Stewart wrote:
For the conversion to fibre he was shipped two modems. One is a fibre modem with 4 x LAN ports and no wifi, the other is an ADSL modem with 4 x LAN ports (one is an up-link) and it has wifi.
The fibre from the street comes into the fibre modem. There is a link via ethernet cable to the ADSL modems up-link port. The ADSL modem is setup with its modem disabled, and it provides the wifi as well as routing to its 3 x LAN ports.
To me it makes more sense to have just one fibre modem which includes wifi and also has 4 x LAN ports.
Anyone know the reason why they ship two modems?
Presumably they have all this stock of ADSL modems that they haven’t fully depreciated yet, so they feel they have to keep on using them.
My guess is that they get the fibre modems without wifi cheaply, and they are already stuck with 1000's of ADSL modems in their inventory, so this helps clear their stock.
I suspect it’s more of an accounting issue--depreciation rather than stock.