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[–] [email protected] -1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

When I had DSL, I bought my own modem and connected it to the same router I used at a previous place. They when to charge ~$10/month, so I spent about $20 and got a basic modem.

My current internet is Ethernet at the wall, so no need for a modem, and AFAIK the company doesn't even provide routers (didn't ask, I just used the one I had). All I needed was the gateway, netmask, and our static (CGNATed) IP. They wrote that in a piece of paper, which I keep in my safe so I don't need to call them just because I reset my router or something.

I think they know who I am by now because I call pretty much every time the Internet goes out. It's a small company (only serves my town of 30-40k people), and I'm probably the only one with a ln enterprise-y router (Mikrotik) with a separate AP (Ubiquiti). Yet I still need to do the basic troubleshooting before they'll actually look into the traffic on their end.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I would like to just buy a modem but somehow I can’t find any cable modems in Germany. There are a few I could import from Amazon US but they apparently don’t support EuroDOCSIS. I used to have one from Cisco, provided by the ISP, that worked perfectly but with a contract change they demanded it back (a condition they did not tell me about and I’m still angry about that).

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I don't know anything about modems in Germany, but I found this. I got it from this Reddit thread.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Thanks, it looks like it could be something but it only has DOCSIS 3.0, I will need to check if that’s enough.