I don’t know if this is the right place for it, but for the longest time, for all time, my routers have always stopped working once a fortnight or once a month, the isp modem has internet fine, the router is showing it has internet but on the end device it says no internet

It’s only once I restart the router that we get internet again

I don’t have this problem if I just connect my pc directly to the isp modem without a router

My current router ASUS ROG Rapture GT-AC5300 will just like clockwork, once every 10, 20 or 30 days, just stop having internet, until it’s restarted

I’ve tried restarting it everyday when I get home from work as I thought maybe the cache was getting full or something but this didn’t fix it, it will still just randomly happen

This router cost a pretty penny a few years back, I don’t care how much I have to pay for a router, I just want to plug it in and it never have this issue, are there any?

Thanks in advance for any help <3

  • Exotic-Grape8743@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Unfortunately this is typical for consumer router/wifi access point combos. They need to be restarted regularly. Mostly because they are underpowered for what they are supposed to do. If you want to get around that you need slightly more beefy hardware like a firewalla gold (highly recommended if you don’t want to tinker too much), a pfsense firewall device, ubiquiti edgerouter, TP-Link ER605, and many others. These do NOT integrate a wifi access point which in fact is the sign of a good router but you will need separate access points because of it. In many cases if you use one of these as a router, you can just switch your old router to access point mode and it will operate very stably suddenly.

    I use a firewalla gold at home and it is rock solid. I use this instead of one of the others I mentioned because my spouse can control essential functions (shutting off internet for the kids when needed for example) from her phone which is not trivial on any of the other solutions and she doesn’t complain it is too hard to use. It has uptime measured in years instead of weeks.