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I know they're never hugely aesthetically pleasing, but having just received and plugged in our router from Shell Energy Broadband it is a massive (not far off an A4 sheet of paper size), black slab of a thing, with the obligatory row of flashing lights on the top. The chance of subtlety incorporating it into the home decor are, essentially, nil. It's one of these 'beauties':
https://www.broadbandbuyer.com/products/35557-technicolor-dwa0120/
Albeit not 'ISP-suppied' but it's not a patch oh some of the 'PROL33+GAM8RZ-XXXTREME' jobbies you can get for visual obnoxiousness.
The vodafone router is a pretty dreary grey slab, although it's stayed in its box most of the time.
I've just got around to sorting out the box/cable hell in the hallway - extending the phone line under the stairs, putting in a little shelf for modem, my router/switch and things like the Hue hub, and running the cable to get the (plain, white, less obtrusive than a smoke alarm) access point on the ceiling near the middle of the house. Good wifi everywhere, no boxes in sight, lovely.
I think I prefer a good old fashioned black slab to the cream and red abomination that comes with a Zen contract
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I have it stood on it's side.
But the thing works so well, I've got over it's appearance 🙂
Why couldn't they have supplied a black one.. looks quite sexy and sci-fi in black
https://maxwireless.de/2018/fritzbox-7530-supervectoring-1und1-homeserver/
My TalkTalk router actually looks ok, matt black with holes like a cheese grater that have a pleasant copper colour underneath. What isn't pleasing though is the brightness of the white LED to say it's on, it's so damn bright I can negotiate the lounge at night without switching the main light on! And that's with it tucked behind the TV. Can't turn it off either.
It's a router. It's tucked away out of sight. Who cares?
It’s tucked away out of sight.
Given where the phone point is, no it's not
Who cares?
You, enough to open, read and comment?
Plusnet router is OK. But, the status light on the front I have set to "low" brightness. It still lights up a dark room. I think the bright setting could light up the whole house!
Yeah, we've had Plusnet and EE previously, both essentially with the same not-too-shocking router.
In fact, I still have the routers, I suppose I could use one of them with some settings fettling
My sky router looks ok but it’s wifi is pants so recently bought a TpLink Mesh system which works really well. The best thing is that I have spent a lot of time hiding a cable from the phone socket to my cellar, where the sky box is now hidden with its wifi switched off and connected via a cable to the first Deco unit.
Annoyingly my wife’s family still want to ring a landline so we still have to have a phone next to the master socket but it’s a lot tidier nowadays!!
With the TpLink system you can program when the lights are on or not have them on at all. Mind you the only light isn’t that bad anyway.
Unlike my Hive box which has the brightest light LED I’ve ever seen.
Who cares?
You, enough to open, read and comment?
Yeah, leave that kind of thing to Drac.
In fact, I still have the routers, I suppose I could use one of them with some settings fettling
If it's anything like the Plusnet router I got there aren't any settings to fettle it's right billy basic inside there. Think you can flash an open source Linux based router OS onto it though if you really really want to get all fettly.
We went from Virgin to Plusnet recently and the wifi coverage from the Plusnet router isn't as good, so probably going to replace it with something else.
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