Router Having Sporadic Outages or Hangups

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I went through a lot of routers at one point. Then I changed my DSL provider and suddenly I had a half dozen routers that all worked fine 24/7...
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Yip, me too, that's why I suggested checking the ISP connection.
 
Only prob is that I have 1 high speed ISP option here - Time Warner.

U-verse is also out here now but the TV portion of that package is very restrictive. Might get them as a backup internet.
 
Those routes use flash memory and they only have so many rewrites.

If firmware update doesn't work then probably time to get new router.

FWIW, I had a lynksys that worked great then started to hang up my connection on a regular basis. I did the firmware update and it worked great. It finally wore out which according to a friend who is an "expert"(g) was due to the flash memory wearing out.
 
I have a Netgear FVS318 that worked great for 5 years with comcast. My comcast internet service was getting slower and slower with frequent outages. I was calling Comcast and accusing them of throttling my service bandwidth. A sharp Comcast tech gal thought I had a router slowly dieing. I purchase a used Cisico RV082 over eBay for about $100.00 and that cured all of my problems. The RV082 is a dual wan router if I ever need two connections.
 
Another thing to consider. Some of these older routers only support 10 mg max on internet bandwidth. Once I put my newer Lynksys in place I instantly received the max for my internet subscription, 16 mg down and 3 mg up.
 
Good stuff guys, I am learning something new every day.

So I'm going to replace the router.

Anyone have specific recommendations? I have some tradein credit saved up over @ Tigerdirect, so will probably buy there.

Thanks!
 
Maybe the connections are dirty. You might try unplugging and plugging in everything a few times, see if the problem disappears. Unplug and plug the main power cord too, sometimes that gets intermittent.
 
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