The OLT optical modem at home comes with WiFi, is it necessary to buy a router?

For most users, it is simply difficult to survive without a network, especially in the era of the widespread use of smart phones, without a network can be said to be impossible. When we are away from home, we basically use mobile data traffic. When we are at home, we use WiFi network more. Nowadays, in addition to routers, OLT optical modems can also come with WiFi networks, so many Users will have questions. After having OLT optical modem equipment, is it necessary to buy a router? It is actually necessary.

Although many OLT optical modems now have WiFi function and can be used as routers, most of them only have 2.4GHz single frequency. The 2.4GHz frequency band is also the frequency band of many home appliances. When used at the same time, it may cause network lag, which is not what we want to see. Moreover, the hardware configuration is basically not high, the amount of equipment is not enough, and other functions are not supported, so I suggest that an additional router is installed.

Of course, the choice of router depends on your own broadband environment. For example, if you use a broadband of more than 100M at home, especially a broadband of more than 500M, it is recommended to buy a WiFi6 router to give full play to the performance of high-speed broadband, and the speed will be greatly improved. As a new generation of wireless network, WiFi6 is much better than WiFi5 in terms of speed and stability. What's more worth mentioning is that WiFi6 solves the problem that multiple people can surf the Internet at the same time. Even if multiple people use a WiFi network at the same time, they can do it with ease.