Router longevity?
I serve 6 desktop computers on hard wire and 2 notebooks through wireless at home using a DSL modem to a 4-port hard wire router -->16 port switch-->wireless router. The 16 port switch and the wireless router are both Zonet brand and have never given me any trouble, but I've been through 2 4-port hard wire routers in the past 5 years, one a Linksys, the other a D-Link. Both started losing throughput speed after a while and when I isolated the router from the DSL modem, my throughput was back to normal. So I bought a new router, Linksys again, and everything is fine once more. What has been your experience with the life expectancy of a router/switch? Since the DSL modem and hard wire router auto-sense/auto-negotiate, would it promote router longevity if I turned it off at the end of the day as opposed running it 24-7 as I have been?
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Also, why do you have so many switches and routers daisy chained? Unless there is a good reason to have it set up that way, I'd say it is less than ideal. Why not just go DSL -> Wireless router -> switch?