Why are all routers (basically) terrible?

I had a £50 Asus wireless adapter once, it was rubbish, I got a replacement, it was rubbish, so I sent it back and bought a £15 TP-Link one. It was great. I now have a relatively cheap TP-Link router and TP-Link home-plugs, as well as a second TP-Link wireless adapter. All of those are also great.

TP-Link! :p

Not to be confused with D-Link, who are absolutely god awful.
 
I have a Asus RT-N56U. It started off great, but after a few firmware updates it would slow down throughput and pings would go through the roof and it would require a reboot.
Struggled with it for ages and was about to ditch it, but decided to try a different firmware.
I found the Padavan's Custom Firmware for my router, installed it and it has been perfect ever since.
Router has never had to be rebooted since. :)
 
I'm happy with my Billion BiPAC 7800DXL and 8800NL.

In fact I would say the 8800NL was amazing value for how solid it's been. Lots of the same features as the 7800DXL (SNR tweaking etc) but for less than half the price.
 
Acme said:
Not to be confused with D-Link, who are absolutely god awful.
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Why do you say that? I've had Dlink since I can remember (DIR-655 and now the DIR-880L) and apart from the one bug in the DIR-880L which they fixed pretty much within a day of me reporting it they've been fine.

Guess it comes down to personal preference :)
 
Because I have had two D-Link routers die for no conceivable reason (having been awful and temperamental beforehand as well) and also a D-Link dongle which simply did not work properly (would top out at about 2mb/s for some reason, and kept losing the signal etc), and on top of that, everyone has always told me theyare rubbish. Including some people who work with big networks. :p

They probably do have some good products.
 
I'm really happy with my Asus now, but upon initial release they're largely untested on international DSL variations, they basically let the customer do the testing and release new firmwares based on their comments.

Which is hugely frustrating

If you're listening Asus, I'm happy for you to send me test models, would gladly give feedback on them.


Billion are great, but the support forums are a bit lapse.
 
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Pretty happy with my Asus n66u, had some performance and stability concerns with it at first but Merlin FW sorted all that - typical problem with many routers the hardware is fine but the software is sloppy.
 
There is no such thing as the router to end all routers, you're better off buying a reasonable one every 2 years as opposed to sinking £200+ into one and expecting it to last.
 
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