ADSL BB why pay more

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phillw said:

I also have my own cable router which I just plug into the back of whichever ADSL router my ISP has sent. It ends up with a situation called double NAT, sometimes you can avoid it but not always and it's not a big deal for most people & can be beneficial for security. It makes switching providers really easy because nothing ever needs to be reconfigured.

The router cost me £150 (it was top of the line dual band when I got it ten years ago) but it's paid for itself as I never had to worry about how bad the routers were going to be that the cheaper providers used

Terrible recommendation to use double NAT - it isn't beneficial for security, hampers performance, causes problems with many things such as gaming and VoIP.

And it doesn't make switching providers really easily unless you make sure you have configured the subnets not to clash.

If it is 10 years old like you say, it won't have Wifi 5 / 802.11ac so the wifi performance will be worse than current ISP wifi routers and almost certainly not have supported firmware so is likely to have security vulnerabilities that aren't patched.