I purchased a wireless router about 4 months back, hated the firmware on it so updated it with DD-WRT and made it a functionable router. Everything was fine and dandy until this last weekend when the wireless users in the house kept losing internet connectivity (sometimes the wireless connection would stay connected, other times it would drop off), the only solution was to restart the router. Saturday I ended up restarting it at least 5 time. Sunday morning I reset back to default and reconfigured from scratch. This seemed to help a little, only had to restart a couple times in the evening. Monday had to restart it a couple time and then again this morning. "ARG!" I yelled in my head, this is the 3rd wireless router I've had this same issue with in the last couple years and I'm tried of it.
My solution? I'm going to give wireless the middle finger and just run Ethernet all over the walls and ceiling......well I would if I lived alone and didn't have devices that can only connect wirelessly. So it looks like I'm off to buy yet another #@$%ing router...but wait! There's another option, why don't I buy a WAP instead and then just connect that to the router?
So I fired up my chat and shot a message off to Qain and he said "You're a moron, why don't you create a pfsense machine?" To which I replied "I don't have the money/spare equipment to do that yet!" and then he said "Oh, well then your thought will work until you can be a real man and get a pfsense box up."
.......Ok so that's not _really_ how the conversation went, it was more like "Hey Qain, do you think xyz would work until I get my pfsense box put together" and he said "Yup, go with Ubiquity and all will be well." Which was really great news because I was already looking at this.
So what does this post really boil down to? Well its just my attempt to fix my frustration with consumer grade wireless routers. As I get the WAP in and connected I will update this post with how things go and then after that I'll do another update about 6 months down the road with how things have been working.
TLDR:
* I'm pissed off at consumer grade wireless routers because I keep having issues with wireless
*I'm purchasing a Ubiquity UAP and connecting it to my current router until I get a pfsense box built, at which time I will move it over to that for wireless
Update:Wow I completely forgot to update this post. So everything has been going well with the Ubiquity UAP. I did end up having to replace the router, the WAN port kept displaying I/O Error and indicating the cable was unplugged. I put up with that for about 3 power cycles before I went out and bought a $10 wired router. Haven't had to power cycle anything for months now and all my wireless devices stay connected. Still plan on setting a pfSense box up at some point but currently everything is running smooth as silk.