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Why you're lucky that netgear router even lasted 5 days! Netgear = Shit

sheldon@sheldon.notadomain wrote:

> Over the past few weeks, I've had a lot of unexplained outages for my
> home internet connection.  It's not been my ISP (at least Time Warner
> always claims there's no outage in my area when I call).  And the
> outages either last a couple minutes, max, or if prolonged, they
> immediately vanish when I unplug my router, wait a couple minutes,
> then plug it back in.
>
> The router is a Netgear MR814, more than five years old.  I have a
> pretty decent and recent XP machine hardwired into it from the modem,
> and it supports, through a wireless connection, three other computers
> in our house.  The firmware for the router is the most current
> version, although that is several years old.
>
> I know nothing lasts forever, but it really looks like my internet
> outages are traceable to the router (I've had Time Warner out to check
> the modem and it's fine).  What confuses me is that I'd think that if
> the router were to go bad, it would just die and not work, ever,
> period.  What I have is 98%+ uptime, always fixable by recycling the
> router.  Can routers die like this?
>
> If I need to replace the router, what's a good recommendation?  I
> don't need anything fancy.  I have my eyes on a Netgear WGR614,
> although that too is a pretty old model.

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