Thanks in advance for the advice!<\/p>\n
I have (supposedly) 6mbps DSL. Two years ago I signed up for service and was provided with an AT&T; “2-Wire” router. In less than 5 months…it died. Then, they replaced it with another AT&T; “2-Wire” router and it died a few months later. So, just before my 1-year warranty expired, the AT&T; tech replaced my router with a business class router called a Motorola Netopia-3000.<\/p>\n
Now, you must understand I do not have any home phones. My DSL line is dedicated and runs straight to my PC. For this reason, I don’t have phone line filters, etc. However, my DSL speed fluctuates ALL DAY LONG from between my full 6MB to as low as 100kbps!!! That’s right, much slower than dial up! I called AT&T; and they sent out a tech. He checked everything over and said everything looked fine but, for good measure, I might wish to replace the phone line coming in to the house with good CAT-5 cable. I did.<\/p>\n
Now, I have the same issue. One minute my speed is blazing fast…then it drops to nothing! So, I called AT&T; again and they tell me that they “rebuilt” the network to the house (remotely) and that everything is great! I told them I still had the problem and they informed me that since the problem shows on three different computers, it must be a problem with the Netopia-3000 router!<\/p>\n
For a mere $100.00 they say they can replace my router for a 4th time and charge me a service call to install it!<\/p>\n
I don’t want to keep purchasing routers that die in less than a year!!!<\/p>\n
So, finally, here is my question…can I purchase another brand? Can I buy my own router\/wireless combo by a brand like Linksys? If I do, will I be able to configure it to work with AT&T; or will there be some sort of compatibility issue? Is a router that is out of the box easily configured to work with DSL or will I need to be really tech savy?<\/p>\n
I just need help and am tired of blowing money on AT&T;!<\/p>\n
Thanks,<\/p>\n
Christopher<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"iawp_total_views":8},"question-category":[75],"question_tags":[],"class_list":["post-7620","question","type-question","status-publish","hentry","question-category-windows-vista"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question\/7620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/question"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"question-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question-category?post=7620"},{"taxonomy":"question_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question_tags?post=7620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}