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I had a Nighthawk router of some persuasion that was so infuriatingly buggy it took years off my life. A bad router is so maddening that the curse "may your br

• bserge 6y ago
  Only buy something that works with OpenWRT. Or at least has hardware that is compatible so you can make your own build or have someone else do it. And contribute to the project, if you can. I'm still on a now ancient TP-Link router, it works absolutely flawlessly with all the features one might need. I know newer routers can be faster on stock firmware because of proprietary stuff, but fuck that, if I need Gigabit, I'll use wires. WiFi N speeds are good enough for me.
• MrBuddyCasino 6y ago
  Which one? My R7000 works perfectly fine, since years.
  • Pxtl 6y ago
    That's the exact one, actually. It would constantly go into a sort of "soft crash" mode where it would continue to run as a wifi router but with more dropped packets and the web interface was inaccessible. It was a nightmare. I assume I just got a dud, but what a dud. It was such a gradual downward slide into being unusable that it was beyond warranty when I finally figured out it was unsalvageable.
    • MrBuddyCasino 6y ago
      The worst kind of failure mode, hope you lit it on fire or something.