Does a router exist, that just ****ing works?!
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Got a 2920 coming up to a years uptime; not the cheapest nor particularly easiest thing to set up but you can't argue about reliability of it though.
Exactly that. I've had all sort and types of routers/modems and the hg612 feeding the 2860 doing all the routing and an ap900 doing dual band wifi has never needed a reboot to fix something. Only rebooted for config or firmware updates.
I decided to splash out once and do it properly after 10years of using consumer grade crap.
Worth it in the long run.
My TP-Link Archer C7 Router was £55 and was plugged in 6 months ago, configured and forgotten about. Solid Wireless and cabled throughput on every device I have.
OH dear...
Nice compare, shame the RT-N66U is not an ac wifi router but only an N900 (or dual band 450Mbps) device...
https://www.asus.com/Networking/RTN66U/specifications/
Could had tried....
"Billion 8800AXL stalling" an AC device with a total of 15 results
"TP-Link Archer C7 stalling" another AC device with a total of only 30,400 results
or even
"draytek vigor-2860ac stalling" with just 6 results.
But oh no you had to pick on the single post that mentioned a NON-ac device..... Congrats on another Apple win.
All of which nicely beat your airport extreme with 105,000 results. OH and NO THAT DOES NOT cover every Apple model. The fruity mob had an "Airport Express" (another crap device which is N600 with only a single LAN and WAN port) in addition to an AC device called the "Airport extreme". It appears i do not own Apple stuff, think its a POS but know more about the model range than you (not a shocker as most Apple fanatics do just run out and buy new models regardless).
Consumer stuff unreliable....... Yes if its ac wifi crud made by Apple i agree entirely. Impossible to buy reliable ac wifi for £85. LMAO...
http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/tools/charts/router/view
Oh but how does it rank compared to a few other devices of similar general spec.....
http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/tools/rankers/router/ranking/AC1750/rev7/6
Full review with wireless compares to other devices...
http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/wire...airport-extreme-80211ac-reviewed?limitstart=0
Congrats near bottom and the most expensive in that AC1750 list, pretty much like all Cult Apple crap.
Positives though are its white and got an Apple logo so that makes it automatically better.... right???
If only they did a blue, black and green model also then it would be over 9000 times better eh???
(will not reply further de-culting a tiny mind is too much like work).
Nice choice, cheap, reliable, non flashy not overdone interface and just does its job well
You also got that dirt cheap its normally around £100.Id recommend the OP looks at http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/ for something that performs, meets budget and spec they desire. Just under £100 your Archer C7 is a good choice for an AC device. If they want to spend a bit more the netgear r7000 nighthawk for around £150 is another good device. If they can manage with AC1200 the archer C5 is a bit of a bargain also. (available at around £70 brand new). One thing not to buy in this instance is Apple LOL
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soundcard drivers have been good more recently stx II worked out of the box even worked with win 10 without a fuss
but yes it does seem like they learn pretty quick from the feedback from "live testing"
Issue is with networks that for most people you plug in the superhub/home hub and it works the average person just tolerates everything. creating the situations users that that have problems have is probably quite hard.
My RT-N66U out the box needed rebooting almost daily - however that was due to it not liking the huge connection cycling from people refreshing server lists, torrents, etc. :S so not sure you can entirely fault the router as that was abusing it pretty hard.
Stuck the merlin firmware on it so far its been rock solid since under the same kind of use - IIRC the last session it ran from early December 2014 until I rebooted it a couple of days ago (June 2015) trying to fix facebook being slow which ended up being a BT issue any way.
Had a DG834 before I got FTTC and it was mostly fine and stable, before that various brands including even a creative blaster router, zoom, etc. that worked fine and various TP-Link, Belkin, D-Link, zyxel that didn't work so well either unstable or died after a few months, never got to trying and draytek or billion stuff though had the odd bit of cisco hardware which was solid if overly complicated for what it was.
Stuck the merlin firmware on it so far its been rock solid since under the same kind of use - IIRC the last session it ran from early December 2014 until I rebooted it a couple of days ago (June 2015) trying to fix facebook being slow which ended up being a BT issue any way.
Had a DG834 before I got FTTC and it was mostly fine and stable, before that various brands including even a creative blaster router, zoom, etc. that worked fine and various TP-Link, Belkin, D-Link, zyxel that didn't work so well either unstable or died after a few months, never got to trying and draytek or billion stuff though had the odd bit of cisco hardware which was solid if overly complicated for what it was.
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I have a BT home hub 4 that I haven't touched in about 8 months works seamlessly as did the previous sky box (admittedly with crap range) and before that an o2 box that also worked pretty much perfectly. I change my broadband supplier most years so just plug in the new router when it arrives and all has been good. Yes they aren't all singing all dancing but for basic internet access and wifi in my house they do a fine job.
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This would've been funny if you weren't so angry and so nasty...
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If your issue is with the wireless then I'd give some serious thought to just disabling it and buying a wireless access point.
I am personally a very big fan of the Deliberant APC button.
I am personally a very big fan of the Deliberant APC button.
Bin the netgear/dlinks and get a proper router, the Asus or Draytek suggested are a good shout. Set the wireless encryption to WPA2-PSK AES - don't leave it on WPA/WPA2 mixed mode as that's the mode that causes problems on a lot of devices, including mobiles/printers/network media streamers etc. Set the wireless channel to 3,4,8 or 9, use an app to find out what wifi channels your neighbours use and avoid them.
I remember you now, you're the person who got violently angry last time someone questioned your advice. That time you said DHCP was for stupid people or small networks.
Is home network one-upmanship some sort of hobby of yours?
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