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Switching from Cox cable to Century Link and they want to sell us a new wireless router. They claim that our router has to be "VDSL2" compliant ... I can't determine if the WNR2000v3 is (or not). Can you help?
> Switching from Cox cable to Century Link and they want to sell us a > new wireless router. [...]
Presumably you had some kind of cable modem for your old Cox service. Whatever it was, it won't work as a DSL modem for your new CenturyLink VDSL2 service. What you need for that is an appropriate DSL modem (with or without an integral router).
> [...] I can't determine if the WNR2000v3 is (or not). [...]
A WNR2000v3 is a router, without any kind of modem. By itself, it won't do the job of a modem. It barely does the job of a router. It's a roughly ten-year-old design, with slow (single-band) wireless networking, slow (10/100MHz, "Fast") Ethernet wired networking, and not much else to recommend it.
Knowing nothing about it, I'd seriously consider getting whatever CenturyLink suggests, but I'd press them not to charge you for it. Sounding disappointed about the extra cost, and hesitant about the service, can work wonders in such cases.
> Switching from Cox cable to Century Link and they want to sell us a > new wireless router. [...]
Presumably you had some kind of cable modem for your old Cox service. Whatever it was, it won't work as a DSL modem for your new CenturyLink VDSL2 service. What you need for that is an appropriate DSL modem (with or without an integral router).
> [...] I can't determine if the WNR2000v3 is (or not). [...]
A WNR2000v3 is a router, without any kind of modem. By itself, it won't do the job of a modem. It barely does the job of a router. It's a roughly ten-year-old design, with slow (single-band) wireless networking, slow (10/100MHz, "Fast") Ethernet wired networking, and not much else to recommend it.
Knowing nothing about it, I'd seriously consider getting whatever CenturyLink suggests, but I'd press them not to charge you for it. Sounding disappointed about the extra cost, and hesitant about the service, can work wonders in such cases.
