On Monday, October 13, 2014 9:25:33 PM UTC+1, sm_jamieson 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.

I've given up with my TP-Link WR1043D after about 18 months - it falls over if it gets slightly too warm and has a number of irritating minor bugs, for example some, but not all, internet radio station start buffering after half an hour or so. I assumed it was issues with the streams, but having switched back to my bombproof old Netgear DG834G, that streams all stations fine and doesn't fall over if the ambient temperature reaches 25C or whatever. The TP-Link was very cheap for the functionality but looks like for once I got what I paid for.

I suppose as this is Uk d-I-y I ought to flash the TP-link with DD-WRT or somesuch third party firmware but frankly I don't have that much time to waste.