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Life is soooo much sweeter without my ancient (8 years old) router!

I had a MacSense Xrouter dealie that I hated to give up on, but my internet connection has become increasingly unstable over the last year in an exponential fashion. Not all at once, but a friend had indicated increasing failures with what he attributed to our mutual ISP.

I, figuring a router is a router no matter what, was completely willing to attribute the subsequent failures to the ISP.


...until, the most recent increase had me resetting things a couple times a day.

The increase in failure rate finally made me try something new. I pulled the "old trustworthy" Xrouter and replaced it with a D-Link wireless router I was relegating to the furthest location from the street I could think of, and VOILA!

No failures in the last 5 days. The bonus is that speed has increased close to the ISP's stated Max rate.

DAMMIT!!! Oh well. Live and loin.

The moral of the story is, don't be so damn quick to blame your ISP for failure rates, when you really haven't done that much on your end to diagnose the problems, even if another person suggests it is probably the ISP you have in common, and that "known good" hardware may not actually be handy, but is always important in deciding the solution.