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Agreed. Without naming the brand of router I have in an effort to not start a brand debate, I must say when you actually end up spending more than $40 on a wire

Agreed. Without naming the brand of router I have in an effort to not start a brand debate, I must say when you actually end up spending more than $40 on a wireless router, the quality greatly improves. When I lived with my family, I thought resetting wireless routers was the norm (all my friends agreed it was a normal thing). Then I moved out and bought my own equipment. 5 years and counting and the only time this thing has been power cycled is when my home lost power in a storm. You'd be far better off putting the money you'd spend on this gadget towards a better wireless router and call it a day.

qb45 11y ago
> I thought resetting wireless routers was the norm (all my friends agreed it was a normal thing). Trust me, hanging or rebooting is the best of the bad things your router can do to you. I had one which would pass LAN->WAN packets without NAT translation if the endian-swapped destination address matched the LAN address block. Want to access X.1.168.192 on default settings? Sorry, not today. And, of course, I didn't use 192.168.1.0/24 but 10.0.0.0/8. It took me weeks to figure out that the thing those few websites which suddenly stopped working had in common was IPs ending with .10 . This was few years ago and since then I haven't bought a single router which wouldn't run OpenWRT or at least DD-WRT.