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My Netgear FWG114P router has failed three
times in the last two days, requiring a reboot. Last time was locked
up dead, couldn't even ping the router over the LAN. It's working now,
but in my experience once these things start failing they have a week
before they die entirely.
My friends now make fun of me for how often I complain about routers on my blog. But WTF? Why do all my routers die in a few months? I'm not doing anything that strange with them. My only thought is that the 80° server closet they're in is causing heat problems. But that's nowhere near out of the 104° spec. I'd thought paying extra for Netgear blue box hardware would help, but I guess not. My next option is to either go with a Draytek 2800G at $200, hoping for reliability, or else go back to a junky Linksys router with the hopes that Tomato firmware will make it work reliably. |
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