$50 is incredibly cheap for a home-router (which also is a wireless access point, a switch and a firewall). Prosumer or enterprise grade hardware is usually ma

$50 is incredibly cheap for a home-router (which also is a wireless access point, a switch and a firewall). Prosumer or enterprise grade hardware is usually magnitudes more expensive. An edgerouter X is $50 for instance, but doesn't have wifi and lacks serious routing features. It is considered a very low end router compared to more expensive stuff from Juniper or Cisco. (even an entry grade router/firewall like an SRX300 will run you back atleast 4x the price of the edgerouter.) One thing these $50 routers lack besides proper software is stability. Most consumer networking equipment has an abysmal track record in terms of reliability.