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   by ggggggggggw 10y ago

   People rarely recommend routers by their model number, if they recommend a router, they recommend the brand. It's very hard for marketing guys to call Costco and say "hey, you remember that router we tried to sell you 6 months ago
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   by ggggggggggw 10y ago

   The problem with Omnia is that it's a niche product that is very unlikely to ever sell outside of its niche. Also, it's being made by people who haven't made a router before. 99% of the issues you'll ever have with your
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   by ggggggggggw 10y ago

   > And these days so many people get it through their cable provider (or DSL, whatever) who have a marked interest in not generating support calls means you may get decent equipment. You would think that, unfortunately it isn't true.
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   by ggggggggggw 10y ago

   i actually edited my post to include the thing about openwrt/ddwrt. If you need stability, go with a high end consumer router and load OpenWRT/DDWRT on it. OpenWRT and friends are very stable, but don't often take advantage o
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   by ggggggggggw 10y ago

   For those who are curious, there's a bunch of reasons that contribute to why consumer wifi routers sucks ass: 1. Wifi routers are very complicated. You need smart people at all levels of the stack to build a modern wifi router. You nee