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How are you supposed to find out which ones don't?
by Filligree 11y ago
How 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.