I have been plagued all my life it seems with piece of junk routers that never work right. Started off with a Belkin that gave extremely bad speeds, moved to a D-Link that would die everytime someone’s wireless dropped, then to another D-Link that had its wireless drop every 24 hours, then to a Netgear that would just crap out every hour or so if used actively.
Granted, I get what I pay for with these routers, either they were provided by the ISP or were bought for less than $50. I’ve always wanted a Linksys, but those cost upwards of $60 in stores. I just couldn’t justify the coin.
I finally got fed up with my string of crappy routers, and bit the bullet. At least I thought I was going to. Apparently Linksys WRT54G-TM routers are only $40 on eBay. Snatched that deal up, and I’m happy as ever. Even flashed the beast with DD-WRT and I’m even happier. It was a breeze to install and it gives me so many more options to play with.
It’s kinda silly how giddy I can get over a piece of hardware; but after years of dealing with faulty consumer routers I’m just happy to have something that works.