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I can't be bothered to do all that so I just decided fuck all of them as every wired provider is like that. Using mobile data instead and the only time I had an issue was when my card expired and I forgot to update it then my internet dropped out. They sorted it pretty quickly when I called them to switch over to my new card.
At the time my phone had no data at all. Now its got 3GB so I could just use that and do it online.
I did something like that in the beginning. My current router has a USB port, so I tether my phone data to it and spread it over the house via Wifi. It wasn't great for zoom calls, but it really wasn't that bad to work with 99% of the time otherwise!
Surprised about zoom calls. I worked from home for years with it using teams and never had a problem. Can even play online games just fine.
I think it depends how congested the phone tower is. Even now, some days its great (~2Mbit) other days not so much (<100kb). I found it too unreliable for conference calls
Really? I find bad days are still 10-20Mbit, good days its 50-100. Not sure if switching to a 5G router would improve the actual speeds I get much or not, should do at some point.