Nothing lasts forever. I’ve had one Internet router for fourteen years. In computer years, that’s, like, forever.
This thing had good reviews and a good price, so I bought it and it worked wonderfully.
Lately, however, it’s been showing its age. My Internet speeds would slow to a crawl and I found that I could reboot the router and get back to normal. (Little did I know how pathetic my “normal” had become.) In the last week or two, even rebooting didn’t help.
Yesterday, in desperation, I bought a replacement at Best Buy.
I paid the same price as I’d paid fourteen years ago. It had good reviews and was nearly the cheapest one in stock.
According to speedtest.net, performance is thirty-to-ninety times better, depending upon where I’m sitting when I run the test.
So, gentle reader, cable your laptop directly into your router and run a speed test. Then run the same test over wi-fi and compare the numbers.
You, too, might be a candidate for a life changing router replacement.