Davey wrote
Nick Odell wrote
Chris French wrote
Graham. wrote
wrote

Dont't buy a tp-link ADSL wireless router ! Mine only lasted just
over a year. It was working but I could not access its http
console (visitor wanted the pass phrase), so I restarted it (power
cycled). After that it acted as an ethernet switch but nothing
else. It was as if the control part of the device had failed.
It would not even respond to the reset button, so no return to
factory presets possible.
Replaced with a netgear one - the previous netgear router I had
lasted years. I know none of these are high end devices, but they
should do the job. DIY ? Well I bought it myself and plugged it in
myself ;-) Simon.

Thanks, but I don't think a sample size of 1 as going to influence
me one way or the other.


Indeed, my TP link wireless AP has been running ok for a few years
now

My TP Link router replaced my Belkin router which died earlier this
year but as each of them only cost about a tenner I tend to think of
them as consumables like paper and ink. I could buy a really nice
router for Belkin/TP price x n where n is a big number but I'm not
convinced a nice router would stay alive n-times longer than my
cheapies or even that computers will still use the same standards in
n-times years time.

I used the same logic when buying wrist watches, preferring
supermarket cheapies over the likes of Omega etc. If it breaks down,
replace it. Now I don't even use one.

I don't either anymore, but with stuff like routers
and smartphones I want something that performs
a lot better than the lowest cost **** does.

And absolutely classic example of that is the lowest
cost android smartphones that have so little memory
that you can install **** all apps on them. What is the
point of farting around like that when paying a bit
more for a phone with a decent amount of memory
avoids all that farting around entirely ?