This is true but most of the ISPs I worked with (in an admittedly smallish town) would often upgrade for the user every 5 years or so. A lot of the times it wa

This is true but most of the ISPs I worked with (in an admittedly smallish town) would often upgrade for the user every 5 years or so. A lot of the times it was needed as they shipped the cheapest routers they could get, even when it wasn’t they’d roll out new stuff as people called in. 10 years I could see, my mom and dad used the same tiny netgear modem/router for 7 before having me redo their network.