Question DSL internet connection

[rr1313]

Sorry if this is the wrong spot or the question has been asked before, please redirect me then.
I recently moved from Romania to Germany and the internet connection here is via DSL, which I'm not used to.
My contract is with Telekom, the one for the 175Mb/s line.
To use this I need to get a special router with integrated modem (Fritzbox starting from a certain model) or one from them, the Speedport Smart 3. The landline phone would be connected to the router. I was told the router/modem should support super-vectoring.
As I had a Wi-Fi Router (both a TPLink TL-WR841ND and a TL-WR1043ND), I figured I could get a DSL modem and use my own router. In the local store I only found a D-Link ADSL2+ DSL-321B modem.
Should this solution work? I tried configuring the modem and accessing the web (the PC was connected via ethernet cable to the modem) and couldn't. What would I need to change? The modem isn't a fit, or is it just not good enough? Do I need a splitter between the phone socket and the modem (I am not planning to using a phone)? Or did I just mess something while setting up the modem?
Thanks!

 

[VirtualLarry]

DSL? 175Mbit/sec? I've never heard of DSL that fast. That sounds like G.Fast or G.DMT or whatever (just a guess, I don't really know). I don't think an ADSL2+ DSL modem will work on that line, I think that tops out at 15-20Mbit/sec. (Could be wrong, haven't had DSL for years, moved to fiber.)

Super-vectoring? I'm not sure what that means, in this context. Are you talking about Wifi here, "beam steering"?

 

[mxnerd]

Just launched in Germany last year, but apparently his DLINK modem won't work.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_VDSL_and_VDSL2_deployments#Europe

Germany

In August 2018 Deutsche Telekom started offering VDSL2 G.vector profile 35b based products with either 250 or 175 Mbit/s downstream and 40 Mbit/s upstream to initially 6 million households with plans to extend the reach to 15 million households by the end of the same year.

 

[ShingenDX]

Welcome to Copperland Germany,

if I remember correctly, there should be a legacy fallback mode on those VVDSL ports an your modem should be able to sync with max possible ADSL2+J speeds - so at least some kind of "DSL active" LED should be lit up somewhere.

Because it's 175 Mbit SVVDSL we can be 100% sure that your line is being routed through some fancy new BNG somewhere and you dont need to worry about entering wrong userdata, but you'll need to activate VLAN tagging for your ethernet port/in your router (VLAN tag=7, but don't ask me where, haven't touched a modem-only device in years )

Before shelling out another ~100€ for a new modem, you might really consider buying one of those all-in-ones for about the same price (https://geizhals.de/?cat=wlanroutmod&xf=758_SuVe) AFAIK at least the AVM/Telekom ones are all more or less plug and go.

And you definitely do not need a splitter between your phone socket and modem.

 

[SamirD]

I'd buy all the isp recommended stuff for now just to get up and running, and then see what you can swap over to, like the router.