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A neat idea but why not take that $60 and buy a router that didn't require resetting. They do exist. My Asus router just never needs reset. I have it on an up
by benmorris 11y ago
A neat idea but why not take that $60 and buy a router that didn't require resetting. They do exist. My Asus router just never needs reset. I have it on an ups unit and the only time it is reset is to do firmware upgrades.
- Filligree 11y agoHow are you supposed to find out which ones don't?
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- Normal_gaussian 11y agoBasically good brand and not cheap as chips? Won't need resets. Also many come with decent warranties
- ISL 11y agoThat's not been my experience. Still haven't found a router/device combination that doesn't need resetting at least a few times a year.
- TillE 11y agoNo idea if they're available outside of Germany, but my ISP-supplied Fritz!Box has been rock solid for years. Only complaint is that the wifi signal isn't very strong. This is after several terrible experiences with expensive name-brand home routers, which I agree are usually trash.
- benmorris 11y agoNewegg/Amazon product reviews are a good starting point. Avoid new models until they are well tested and bugs patched.
- baseh 11y agoOne caveat with Amazon products reviews. With any products that have unusually high 5*s, search for term 'exchange' and lookout for lines like : 'I received this product at a discounted price in return for my unbiased review.' I got bad experience with multiple such products. The people writing these reviews definitely seem to start with positive, since they got the stuff for free or discount!
- tarikjn 11y agoLook at the brands that focus on quality/software vs. releasing new models every 3 months. In my experience Pepwave/Unifi/Microtik are good prosumer brands. For more consumer-y stuff, it might be worth it to have a look at the Apple/OnHub routers too. You can also pick up enterprise gear on eBay at pretty good prices, brands such as Cisco/HP/Aerohive/Ruckus etc., but configuring/updating might be a pain.
- sbierwagen 11y agoI've bought Ubiquiti point-to-point wireless gear before, and really liked it, but note that their APs don't do well with many simultaneous clients: http://www.wlanpros.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Wi-Fi-Stress-Test-Report.pdf http://www.wlanpros.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Wi-Fi-Str... (page 30) This isn't so much a problem with the regular UniFi APs, but the UniFi AC AP costs $300!
- ac29 11y agoI picked up a UniFi AP AC Lite for $84 a couple months ago and couldn't be happier with it. For home use, the full version is probably overkill.
- cgriswald 11y agoI can't speak from experience for most of these, but I just bought some Ruckus APs and have been through review hell. The Ruckus APs were clear winners; the reviews (of the R500 and R600) were glowing and said the devices were easy to configure. (They're also very expensive.) They haven't arrived yet, so I can only recommend them based on my research, not based on experience. I'm replacing a hodgepodge of hardware, including some Apple routers and APs. The Apple products worked reasonably well. I had to keep them fairly isolated (for heat) or else they required reboots. But given their price point, I would probably look somewhere else. Throughput was a major complaint for many reviewers of the Unifi models I researched. No individual reviewer convinced me the units themselves were the problem, but the sheer number of such reviews did. Peplink's Pepwave units look awesome and were my second choice. For all the others, I could either not find enough reviews to reach any conclusions or could not find a model that fit my needs.
- qb45 11y agoI just look for models known to work well with OpenWRT. This way I don't have to deal with random bugs or limitations of stock firmwares.
- auxym 11y agoSimilar success with my TP-Link TL-WDR3600. Had a 20$ netgear before that needed resetting several times a week.
- qb45 11y agoSame device here, works perfectly with OpenWRT.
- Mindless2112 11y agoI have that model -- install OpenWrt, and you have an very stable router: http://imgur.com/cMhIwmp http://imgur.com/cMhIwmp I'm quite irritated that TP-Link is locking out OpenWrt now. For the last 7 years, TP-Link is all I've purchased or recommended. Not now though.
- collyw 11y agoIts not always the router though. I remember living in a shared flat a while back, and whenever one girl connected her laptop to the network, it would mess up wireless for everyone. I seem to remember the fix needing applied to her computer, as I have never done anything to the software on a router.
- wongarsu 11y agoIf it can be fixed by restarting the router, the router could have fixed it automatically during operation if it had decent software.
- recursive 11y agoThat's great. An equally good product to this plug might be an oracle that can tell you how good a router's software was, and improves it if it is not decent.
- mynameisvlad 11y agoThat's why return periods exist. So you can see if something works well or not. You don't need an oracle to know that you should return a router that malfunctions when someone starts connecting to it.
- cgriswald 11y agoThe oracle is needed to see if the router works well or not in all possible configurations of connected clients the router will face during its lifetime... ...so that you can return it during the return period.
- collyw 11y agoIn that case I think I had been using the router for 6 months or so before the dodgy laptop appeared.
- creshal 11y agoEven if it did, hardware watchdogs are like 5 cents and should be a standard feature of all devices.
- anotheryou 11y agosome ISPs in some countries won't let you switch from their crappy routers
- NDizzle 11y agoYou can add ANY wifi router to ANY ethernet network. You absolutely are not required to use a wifi device that your ISP gives you. The WAN side is under their control, but you can do anything you want on your side.
- kmm 11y agoBut then you have an extra hop.
- sbierwagen 11y agoSure, but that's only going to add 0.5-1ms of latency.
- lliama 11y agoNot even; even with low perf hardware you're looking at 0.1ms on the high side.
- colejohnson66 11y agoYou do understand that the extra hop's increase in ping is negligible. If it was a problem, we wouldn't be able to have 10 gig ethernet.
- qb45 11y agoI think they may be talking about evil ISPs who change TTL of all your incoming IP packets to 1 so that any router you may run would drop them. However, this is not an issue with "dumb" ethernet-WiFi bridges.
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- dschulz 11y agoExactly. There are a few MikroTik routers for less than $60. They are all rock solid and full of functionality, including watchdog timer. http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:System/Watchdog http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:System/Watchdog http://www.amazon.com/Mikrotik-hAP-AC-Lite-RB952Ui-5ac2nD/dp/B019PCF3QY/ref=sr_1_12?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1457801121&sr=1-12&keywords=mikrotik http://www.amazon.com/Mikrotik-hAP-AC-Lite-RB952Ui-5ac2nD/dp... http://www.amazon.com/MikroTik-RB951Ui-2HnD-5-Port-Wireless-1000mW/dp/B00JO48OP6/ref=sr_1_2?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1457801121&sr=1-2&keywords=mikrotik http://www.amazon.com/MikroTik-RB951Ui-2HnD-5-Port-Wireless-... http://www.amazon.com/Mikrotik-RB941-2nD-TC-Lite-2-4Ghz-802-11b/dp/B016E93MX2/ref=sr_1_4?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1457801121&sr=1-4&keywords=mikrotik http://www.amazon.com/Mikrotik-RB941-2nD-TC-Lite-2-4Ghz-802-... http://www.amazon.com/MikroTik-RouterBOARD-2-4GHz-Access-Point/dp/B00N9ZI8IE/ref=sr_1_23?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1457801121&sr=1-23&keywords=mikrotik http://www.amazon.com/MikroTik-RouterBOARD-2-4GHz-Access-Poi... http://www.amazon.com/MikroTik-RouterBOARD-2-4GHz-Ceiling-Access/dp/B00SIQ2CZY/ref=sr_1_25?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1457801430&sr=1-25&keywords=mikrotik http://www.amazon.com/MikroTik-RouterBOARD-2-4GHz-Ceiling-Ac...
- colanderman 11y agoI love my MikroTiks. Even the $22 "hAP lite" is a fantastic home WiFi router option, and comes with all the functionality a hacker could want. My MikroTik's fantastic reliability (48d uptime, and that was b/c I accidentally pulled the power cord), combined with a queue policy to throttle bandwidth to avoid my ISP's humongous queues, makes me feel sorry for others whenever I hear them complain about their router always crashing, or Netflix causing Minecraft to lag.
- dublinben 11y agoDoes MikroTik have something against gigabit Ethernet? Even the $20-30 routers from other companies include it these days.
- electrum 11y agoThe Apple AirPort is one such router. It's expensive but high quality. I get great reception through walls, outside, etc.