So I'm a little bit frustrated, and looking for advice. Previously I had an Asus RT-N66U, and it was horribly unreliable. Once you started pushing large amounts of data, the 5GHz band would freeze up and you couldn't connect to it until you rebooted the router.
Then recently I got upgraded to 300Mbps on Time Warner, and needed to buy a newer modem to be compatible with the new service. I took this opportunity to buy a Netgear C7000, since it seemed like a good combo modem/router unit. People seemed to love the R7000, so I thought my experience with the C7000 might be similar. Well, yeah it's yet another pile of junk. It randomly will just drop packets for 30-60sec at a time, effectively making my internet unavailable. Basically a few times a day this will cause my work VPN and work VoIP calls to drop, which is massively bad.
So my question is this... What's a good AC dual-band router to get that actually delivers on everything that's promised? Something that doesn't have buggy firmware, or drop packets, or freeze up. About the only solidly reviewed product I see is the Apple Airport Extreme, so I'm tempted to just buy one of those. I know it's far from being the best, but it apparently just works, and works well.
Needless to say this is frustrating being someone who worked at Cisco (not Linksys/consumer) for a decade, where we'd have customers beating down our door if we dropped a single packet, let alone 60 seconds worth.
Thanks!
Then recently I got upgraded to 300Mbps on Time Warner, and needed to buy a newer modem to be compatible with the new service. I took this opportunity to buy a Netgear C7000, since it seemed like a good combo modem/router unit. People seemed to love the R7000, so I thought my experience with the C7000 might be similar. Well, yeah it's yet another pile of junk. It randomly will just drop packets for 30-60sec at a time, effectively making my internet unavailable. Basically a few times a day this will cause my work VPN and work VoIP calls to drop, which is massively bad.
So my question is this... What's a good AC dual-band router to get that actually delivers on everything that's promised? Something that doesn't have buggy firmware, or drop packets, or freeze up. About the only solidly reviewed product I see is the Apple Airport Extreme, so I'm tempted to just buy one of those. I know it's far from being the best, but it apparently just works, and works well.
Needless to say this is frustrating being someone who worked at Cisco (not Linksys/consumer) for a decade, where we'd have customers beating down our door if we dropped a single packet, let alone 60 seconds worth.
Thanks!