New Router Purchase

[Stephen Partington]

I have had a router go bad. The rom failed.

On Mon, Oct 28, 2019, 4:13 PM Michael Butash <michael at butash.net> wrote:

> I really don't find routers "go bad" as they outlive their usefulness.
> Most people find their routers can't handle their usage when providers
> offer 100mbps+ connections, but sometimes something is simply abusing your
> network, and your router isn't good at showing it to you.
>
> Coming from the enterprise space, when something stops working, I see what
> is wrong, as something is always wrong if it's broken.  In a consumer
> router, what is usually the matter is something creating too many sessions,
> or simply exceeding bandwidth capabilities.  Ahem, Bittorrent, or some
> other uncontrolled vermin.  Some people it's 5 people watching netflix at
> the same time, or heavy gaming.
>
> I can usually feel when my network is broken at home, and almost always
> find a reason for it.  Only time I upgrade is when I want to test a new
> piece of kit I got from ebay.
>
> I've run cisco asa, netgear/dd-wrt routers, fortigate firewall currently,
> considering getting a palo alto.  My netgear flashed with dd-wrt was great
> for years, a R710 nighthawk, and only reason I upgraded to my fortigate was
> just to dogfood features for customers of mine using fortigate.  I got
> lucky buying a fortigate on ebay, 2 years later some large defense
> contractor company keeps paying for my enterprise support on the unit for
> full filter and threat feeds on it, so at least my tax dollars go for
> something good finally.
>
> -mb
>
>
> On Sat, Oct 26, 2019 at 12:17 PM <techlists at phpcoderusa.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> It appears I am having Internet router problems.  Occasionally I will not
>> be able to access the Internet for a few seconds to a minute or so.  This
>> morning I was not able to access the Internet at all.
>>
>> I am with Cox and have a home office business account.  I called Cox and
>> they suggested bypassing my router and connect directly to their modem.
>> That worked.  Based on that I think my router is going bad.
>>
>> I had turned off the modem and the router for a maybe an hour or so while
>> I did other things.  I now have access.
>>
>> I would like a secure router.  Cox says almost any modern router will be
>> secure.  Security is a big issue.  When I look at all the WiFi that is
>> available in my neighborhood I see maybe 10 routers.  That is scary!
>>
>> Since I have a business account that allows servers I have been using
>> port forwarding.  I am a programmer and occasionally I fire up my laptop
>> turned server for testing.
>>
>> I also have set up my WiFi to only accept those devices that I have
>> configured by MAC address.
>>
>> Any toughs on my pending router purchase?
>>
>> Thank you so much for all your feedback!!
>>
>> Keith
>>
>>
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