WRT 160 N router is utter crap

[lefty]

There, I said it

A friend of mine has an older WRT 54G router, and he deosn't know jack about computers and stuff, in fact I set up his router, and he has had ZERO issue

The WRT54G is getting harder to find, I will probably have to look for it online

Heck, even on some websites, it's temporarily out of stock

[koriwhat]

linksys is complete to begin with...

[lefty]

linksys is complete to begin with...

The newer models are ty

But the older ones work pretty well


And now the 54G is more expensive than the newer 160N

[koriwhat]

my old 54G died after cutting in and out forever...

[lefty]

my old 54G died after cutting in and out forever...

More details please

[koriwhat]

it just died all of a sudden... granted time warner sucks but all the while i thought they were the problem as to why my internet kept cutting in and out and later i found out the hard way that it was the router itself.

[lefty]

it just died all of a sudden... granted time warner sucks but all the while i thought they were the problem as to why my internet kept cutting in and out and later i found out the hard way that it was the router itself.

Thought it was reliable

My buddy has had it for 2 years now, no problem.... Yet

[jimo2305]

reload the firmware..

[koriwhat]

reload the firmware..

did that, as well i used some hacked firmware and it still crapped out.

[jimo2305]

^ lol dat sucks then

[koriwhat]

^ lol dat sucks then

yeah but the thing lasted a couple yrs at least and then went bunk for like 4 months before it finally died.

[lefty]

reload the firmware..

Yeah did that

Reflashed it with open source firmware as well


Its more of a hardware issue; plus, the WRT-N160 overheats easily

[lefty]

So I just bought a new router, and my crappy WRT160 N is now working flawlessy



FML