We've changed our wifi provider a couple times for different reasons and we always end up with one or two wifi router boxes with the little antennae to stuff into a box and hide away. The new company, whatever it is TOT, AIS or some other, always has us getting a new set. Is there anything that can be done with these old routers? Would someone at Zeer or a computer shop buy them? Do you have to use a different router each time you change a provider?

 

They may be able to be used as a wireless bridge, or extender, to extend the range of your WiFi around the home and into a yard, if you have some black spots.  

As said that can be access points - but admit I gave up using them as have much better coverage with a cheap dedicated unit.  

Thanks for the responses. The most recent ones I have are just a year or so old from TOT. It too bad there must be a lot of these piling up around. I know in my wife's village they were changing the Internet provider anytime there was a new promotion or a faster provider. It seems whenever a company, TOT, AIS, 3BB or whoever, increases their speed or bandwith or some aspect, they come to change the routers. What a waste.

 

 

Usually they want them back, and if you don't return them in a certain time frame they charge you for it. At least for True and AIS that's the case.

TOT never takes the old ones from my experience.

31 minutes ago, TooBigToFit said:

TOT never takes the old ones from my experience.

Perhaps that says something about the the quality or capabilities of the unit..........

CAT always put asset tags/ID on anything they supply. Sometimes they want them back, sometimes they don't. I have a very expensive VoIP gateway sitting in a drawer for five years waiting for them to come collect it. The other providers don't care in my experience. It's usually cheap garbage. Anything they supply with a connection goes straight into a box and filed in the 'useless khrap' cupboard anyway as we use our own custom built pfSense gates. I think there are something like 20 or 30 old routers and GPON units uncollected at this time.

 

 

 

 

Edited November 26, 20205 yr by NilSS

My TOT landline stopped working a year ago, TOT blamed my building, building blamed TOT. Despite no service, I kept getting a bill every month with a phone rental charge.  Account was in my former gf's name and only she could close it. Unfortunately, she lives in Koh Samui and I'm in Bangkok.  She finally visited a few weeks ago so we went to the local TOT office to close the account. I brought along the old phone.  TOT insisted we pay the outstanding phone rental balance; about B800.  If it had been only me, I would have told them to go fish but she didn't want trouble with them in the future so no choice but to pay. When I tried to give the old phone back, they wouldn't take it.  

"Old style, not use now"    B800 for a hunk of junk.

15 hours ago, TooBigToFit said:

TOT never takes the old ones from my experience.

I still have the TOT router and antanae from 3 years back when I went to 3BB,