Vodafone DSL on Speedport router?

the speedport will work but tbh you might wanna check if vodafone even gives u a good connection at your address first. their dsl is fine in some parts of Berlin and a nightmare in others, depends on the local node. also you cant trick telekom into new customer pricing, they check your address and name. you'd have to cancel and have a partner or roommate sign up fresh for that. if you do switch, order vodafone like 2-3 weeks before your telekom ends so theres overlap, you'll pay double for a few days but no downtime

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honestly the speedport smart 4 works with vodafone dsl but youll need to change the vci/vpi settings in the router menu, its 1/32 for vodafone vs whatever telekom uses. also check if your apartment has a tae dose or a newer ntg socket, if its the old tae you might need a splitter which vodafone usually includes in the welcome package

about telekom tricking them into new customer pricing, not gonna happen. they check your name and address in their system. if you cancel and have your partner or roommate sign up fresh that works but youll need a new contract in their name and a new bank account for the direct debit. some people do the "cancel and then call the retention team" thing but in my experience telekom retention in Berlin barely gives discounts anymore, they just offer you the same price with a 12 month lock-in

one thing nobody mentioned yet, if you go with vodafone dsl make sure they dont try to upsell you on their "giga-kombi" with a cable contract, its a pain to cancel later. also keep your telekom running until the vodafone line is actually active, their activation can take 2-3 weeks in Berlin depending on the bezirk

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Yeah the Speedport Smart 4 should work fine with Vodafone DSL, you just need to enter the right login credentials in the router settings. As for Telekom, you can't really get new customer pricing without actually canceling and signing up again, but if you time it right and overlap contracts by a few days you won't lose internet access.

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Worth noting that Berlin street names have official umlaut and ß rules that trip people up, so a sign showing "Strasse" versus "Straße" is not actually a spelling error, just an older transcription. Same with "ue" versus "ü" (e.g. "Kantstrasse" vs "Kantstraße"), both are considered valid renderings and you'll see the ß version on the blue Schilder and the ss version on older plaques or in databases that predate Unicode. If the difference you're seeing is between those two forms, there's nothing to fix and both are technically correct.

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if the signs u mean are the old enamel ones on the house facades those are often protected as Baudenkmal so nobody's allowed to correct them even if the spelling is outdated. the binding version is whatever is in the Berliner Strassenverzeichnis plus the entry in the Liegenschaftskataster, so if u tell me the street i can point u to the right Bezirksamt Mitte or Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf page. tbh the merged district thing is real but the facade signs are a separate story, theyre basically museum pieces at this point

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honestly thats super common in Charlottenburg, the district offices were merged from older Bezirke and nobody ever fixed all the Schilder. if its a real street you can check the official strassenverzeichnis on berlin.de, that list is what the Burgeramt actually goes by. which street is it? some of the Kaiserdamm / Kantstrasse signs are notorious for this.

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