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Hi, I’ve had a NetGear N300 wireless router for a number of years and have not had any problems. I hope to get 50 Mbps fibre soon and would like to know if it will work.
 
Can't see why not it's a WAN router so should work fine. As long as it can do PPPoE and Dynamic IP on the wan port you should be fine. PPPoE is usually used with Openserve and some other providers depending on ISP like Frogfoot, Vumtal Aerial. Dynamic IP is used for Vumatel Trenched or some other providers depending on ISP like Afrihost on Frogfoot and Vumatel Aerial.
 
cavedog said:
Can't see why not it's a WAN router so should work fine. As long as it can do PPPoE and Dynamic IP on the wan port you should be fine. PPPoE is usually used with Openserve and some other providers depending on ISP like Frogfoot, Vumtal Aerial. Dynamic IP is used for Vumatel Trenched or some other providers depending on ISP like Afrihost on Frogfoot and Vumatel Aerial.
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Thanks, Frogfoot is the only one trenching/laying for the foreseeable future and as I’m currently with Afrihost will probably stick with them.
 
pedruid said:
Hi, I’ve had a NetGear N300 wireless router for a number of years and have not had any problems. I hope to get 50 Mbps fibre soon and would like to know if it will work.
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My N300 worked very well on 10Mbps adsl but on fibre started to give me speeds as low as 2Mbps on a 10Mbps line. After i changed my router i had no more drops in speed. In any case most isps will give you a "free" router, i would rather suggest you use that instead.
Also not all of the netgear N300 routers supported wan connections via lan port 4.
 
deonmoodley said:
My N300 worked very well on 10Mbps adsl but on fibre started to give me speeds as low as 2Mbps on a 10Mbps line. After i changed my router i had no more drops in speed. In any case most isps will give you a "free" router, i would rather suggest you use that instead.
Also not all of the netgear N300 routers supported wan connections via lan port 4.
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Thanks for that. Now the wait.
 
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