[mdlug] Router is giving up on routing let alone working

[Adam Tauno Williams]

On Tue, 2009-11-03 at 12:29 -0500, Robert Adkins wrote:
> I have a Linksys Wi-Fi router that has served me well for about... 4 years
> or so and now, it's giving up the ghost.
> I had to reboot it a few times last night in order to make any networking
> function last night. For the last few weeks, I have been receiving some
> extremely high latency, which I had been attributing to the Cable Internet.
> Now, I'm thinking it was the router.
> So, any suggestions of good, quality hardware that's available on the shelf
> of any local computer shops?

No. 

Buy the cheapest thing that works and pitch it when it dies.

> This will be my 3rd router in roughly 7 or so years. 

Sounds about right.

> Do they just build crap consumer level routers or have I just been unlucky?

Yes, they are crap.  And you [we] pay crap prices, so big deal.

You can spend hundreds on a Cisco Aironet;  that probably won't die on
you.