Guys, I am at my wit's end. At my parent's house, we have had broadband internet for 5 years and we are on our FOURTH router.
-First an 802.11b Netgear way back in late 2005. The most stable router we have ever had. It was slow (11b) but I should have held onto that one. I replaced it because I wanted 802.11g for my laptop.
-Then some D-Link WBR-something piece of shit. It ran great for about a year, then it went to shit. Network was really flaky, wired LAN would drop out and wifi throughput was horrendous.
-Then a Linksys WRT54GL. I loaded it up with DD-WRT v23 SP1 the day we got it, and she ran magnificently for months. Then at about the 1 year mark the internet started getting flaky. Reboots were necessary often. It got to the point to where I had to reset it every time someone needed the internet. I'm not home half the time and my entire family uses the wifi so it just recently got replaced with....
-A brand new Linksys E2000 (or some model number close to that). 802.11n wireless, gigabit ethernet. Now two or three weeks in, IT NEEDS TO BE REBOOTED ABOUT ONCE A DAY. WHAT. THE. FUCK. Aside from that, ever since I put it in, I've been getting complaints from the fam bam about flaky wifi.
It's the same cycle with every router. I put it in, it runs great for a while, then it becomes a flaky POS. Except the newest router keeps crashing and it's only ~three weeks old or so.
I know it's not the DSL modem because I just recently recapped it, and not only that but when our internet goes down I only reset the router and everything comes back up. I never have to mess with the modem.
Can someone who knows about networking enlighten me? Why in the hell can I not achieve reliable, maintenance-free networking? I have friends with old-ass Linksys routers and they never give them any crap. When I inquire they tell me that it just works and they never have to mess with it.
What am I missing here?
-First an 802.11b Netgear way back in late 2005. The most stable router we have ever had. It was slow (11b) but I should have held onto that one. I replaced it because I wanted 802.11g for my laptop.
-Then some D-Link WBR-something piece of shit. It ran great for about a year, then it went to shit. Network was really flaky, wired LAN would drop out and wifi throughput was horrendous.
-Then a Linksys WRT54GL. I loaded it up with DD-WRT v23 SP1 the day we got it, and she ran magnificently for months. Then at about the 1 year mark the internet started getting flaky. Reboots were necessary often. It got to the point to where I had to reset it every time someone needed the internet. I'm not home half the time and my entire family uses the wifi so it just recently got replaced with....
-A brand new Linksys E2000 (or some model number close to that). 802.11n wireless, gigabit ethernet. Now two or three weeks in, IT NEEDS TO BE REBOOTED ABOUT ONCE A DAY. WHAT. THE. FUCK. Aside from that, ever since I put it in, I've been getting complaints from the fam bam about flaky wifi.
It's the same cycle with every router. I put it in, it runs great for a while, then it becomes a flaky POS. Except the newest router keeps crashing and it's only ~three weeks old or so.
I know it's not the DSL modem because I just recently recapped it, and not only that but when our internet goes down I only reset the router and everything comes back up. I never have to mess with the modem.
Can someone who knows about networking enlighten me? Why in the hell can I not achieve reliable, maintenance-free networking? I have friends with old-ass Linksys routers and they never give them any crap. When I inquire they tell me that it just works and they never have to mess with it.
What am I missing here?
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