The week before Xmas, my ISP offered me to migrate my Internet plan from cable to FTTH. As they were bought last year by Bell, one of Canada's telecom behemoths, I suspect they're phasing out cable, which is provided by Bell's competitors.

The migration was completed last night. I'm now on a 150/150Mbps unlimited data plan, upgraded from 100/30Mbps/400GB for the same price.

The added upload speed is most valuable for my home server.

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In addition, my ISP provided a wireless router. I now get much higher speeds on my devices than with my old Netgear router.

I previously couldn't top 3Mbps on my #Pinephone. With the new router, I've tested between 30 and 50Mbps. The Pinephone remains a slow device, but at least I can now browse the Internet a little faster!

A drawback is the router's web admin panel is very basic and doesn't have the wealth of settings the Netgear had.

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@normandc

That's a great upgrade! 💪
The upload speeds from ISPs usually don't get better than that, for personal I mean.
I've been upgraded twice in download speed but still the same for upload at 100Mbps.

It sucks to buy a new router which does a better job, just to tag along with the ISP router that should already have all the features the new one has. I have been blessed with 2 router factory resets by my ISP's because their tv box is failing miserably whilst updating.

@tisila Yikes.

Yeah, I have an issue with the ISP router not supporting hairpinning. I can't connect to my web server based on Yunohost from my home PC plugged through LAN. But I can access it from my wireless devices. It sucks because I can't access my Nextcloud instance (and other web apps) from it. 🙄