Replace Router FIOS - Frontier AKA Verizon

[darkhelmet]

I have a FIOS router M1424-WR Rev F. from 5 years ago when the network was installed at my house. I'm using a ASUS RT-AC66U in between the FIOS router and my devices for better WIFI and to achieve 1GB bandwidth.

I'm getting tired of the ASUS failing. In the past 7 months it needed a reboot/reset 3 times, not including yesterday when one of the Ethernet ports failed. I'm down to 3 of 4 working now.

Anyone know if a better FIOS capable router exist so I can replace the 2 devices I'm tying together now for just 1 LAN + WIFI gigabyte router?

I found some "Verizon" hardware on Ebay (http://www.ebay.com/bhp/fios-router). Should I just pickup one of these?

Also, albeit somewhat skeptical, I found this odd article (https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/beware-verizons-bhr4g1100-quantum-router-any-lawyers-larry). Can anyone add some validity to this?

 

[System Error Message]

go for the 3rd option, none of the above.

The question for achieving full symmetric 1Gb/s bandwidth really depends on what you need from a router. Just basic features that any consumer router has and that wont be an issue. If you need more like QoS, UTM features, proxy cache, and so on than you may want something different. at the moment no consumer router achieves full 2Gb/s NAT forwarding without hardware acceleration, same for VPN routers. So the question is if you are willing to spend the effort to learn and configure or stick with the limited capabilities of consumer routers.

 

[darkhelmet]

Hmmm...I'm just confused now.

go for the 3rd option, none of the above.

Kinda lost now. The ASUS I'm using is failing, I assume since I had to reset it 4 times now, and one port is no longer working. So your suggestion is, keep it?

I don't do anything exotic, just Netflix, wife streams House Wives of Nigeria, the kid games for 26 hours a day, etc. I'm not sure what the other stuff you mentioned would do for us; NAT forwardingj, VPN, etc.

Really I was hoping for suggestions to get us down to a single 1gb device. Just to be clear, I have the ASUS connected because the FIOS router is a MB, not GB device.

 

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none of the above meaning you get a totally different router. The ARM broadcom routers are good in that i havent had any issues with them yet. Perhaps your power supply might not be good or your house electrical supply is problematic as that can cause the eventual failure of electronics.

The other option is basically to get x86 for something like pfsense or a linux/unix server to use as a router or something like a mikrotik routerboard (model depends on your needs).