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Originally Posted by The_bluester
I got sick of having to regularly power cycle or reboot my router via the management interface to keep it stable so I went out and bought an enterprise grade one.
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This is very true, but often unappreciated by most. I spent 10 years selling and servicing "consumer" grade gear, only to experience a culture shock when I went "upmarket" a bit.
I now run an Avaya 48 port POE switch (40 ports in use), and 4x Ubiquiti AC Pro APs. My router (on Fibre NBN) is just a dinky little ASUS, but partly thanks to the Merlin WRT firmware, I'm currently enjoying 154 days of uptime. When the ASUS drops its guts (3yrs old so far), I think i'll snag a Ubiquiti Edgerouter. Very happy with their stuff.
I have to bite my tongue when dealing with trash routers that the telcos issue on contracts. No insult to the owners of course, it's just hard to explain/justify that there are better things out there.