Just realized that my "cheapest that money can buy" printer reboots faster (and a lot too) than my fairly high-end but as proprietary and shitty as routers can be Fritz!Box router. German engineering no less.

Kill me 🙂🔫

Fucking Fritz!Boxes.... Them features but they are also so weird...

Those look like something from a decade ago.

Dont forget that the dsl standard can transport multiple kilobytes per second over wet string

I like FritzBoxes

@irene Lets explain it this way:
ISDN -> DSL -> VDSL -> Vectoring

@stop My Fiber to the home connection can transport Gigabytes even if the whole city is under water 😁

@xzvf nope, Vectoring doesn’t use a coax cable, but a very normal telephone cable, like DSL.

@irene G.Vector, essentially a protocol for.. well, squeezing more information out of a telephone line. Apparently it's got to do with bandwidth reallocations and things like that. But routers have to 1) actively support it to not confuse the DSLAM (essentially a distribution box for DSL) and 2) here in Belgium anyway be whitelisted by Belgacom. That's the problem - only their own ISP routers are whitelisted and after a lot of lobbying effort, some Fritz!Boxes as well. It's why I'm forced to use them. I can't change anything there without the risk of falling back to a slow ADSL profile.

@Sumafu vectoring is like listening to an specific person while 198 others try to do the same, so that 1 crouded half try to speak with the other half over an an length of 100 meters.

@stop I know Vectoring, and I know that it is a new „version“ of DSL and has nothing to do with the way coax works. Because Vectoring uses the same cables then DSL. Vectoring just needs more power for some crazy physic stuff on the two little wires.

@Sumafu i never mentioned koax. In the school i wrote a test about electronic communication. Ethernet, isdn, fibre, adsl, vdsl, wifi, 1G, GSM, UMTS, LTE, coax

@stop sorry, xzvf Said that its coax 😅

But the router got a lot more shit to load than a printer...

@JFK422 I'm aware of that and took every single service I could out of it. I'm running my own DHCP, DNS and soon NTP as well. That thing is no more than a router, modem, AP and switch right now. And even if that wasn't the case, that device has more than enough hardware to boot up in less than 5 whole minutes.