Simple question about FTTC and supplied kit

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At the moment I'm with Virgin Media and I have a Super Hub running in modem mode connected directly to my infrastructure. This is great and works fine.

I'm looking into going FTTC instead though mainly because of the better upstream rate. However, I don't know anything about the kit an ISP and/or BT provides and haven't used a phone-line based connection for about 13 years.

If someone could give me a really quick run-down of what kit is usually supplied that would be great. Or links. Or anything really. Do BT supply a 'modem' and the ISP supplies a router? If so, I presume there is no problem with connecting the modem to any normal PPPoE router?

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If someone could give me a really quick run-down of what kit is usually supplied that would be great. Or links. Or anything really. Do BT supply a 'modem' and the ISP supplies a router? If so, I presume there is no problem with connecting the modem to any normal PPPoE router?

That's correct, BT supply a VDSL modem and the ISP (or end user) supplies a router with an Ethernet WAN port. Most ISP's use PPPoE but Sky Fibre uses DHCP to hand out your IP.
 
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