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When will my router die?

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allen5055

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I have a linksys 610N dual-band router. I bought it used, and it's about 5 years old by model. Two weeks ago the wifi began cutting out and then it stopped working entirely. After much experimentation I found that it would now only work on the a/g bands, and would not work when it was set to "wireless n only." I had previously put DDWRT on it. I'm assuming that this means that the antenna burned out.

My question is this, will the router keep on working on the a/g bands or is this a sign that it's likely to lose the other antenna within the next two years. My roommates and I are arguing about whether to buy a new router now or stay with this one in the hopes that it will last two years. If it dies before then they will probably want a new router right away and it will end up being a poor deal.

If this doesn't mean that it's going to die, I would rather wait and purchase an AC band router as my next upgrade. If the router is likely to die soon, I would probably buy the Asus RT-N66U that's on sale right now.
 
There is no way to tell for certain. Personally, I would start shopping around.
 
As PolygonGTC said, there's no way whatsoever to tell when that router is going to fail. If we could tell that, some of us would be very very rich. ;)

But in general though, once one part of a computer device/hardware starts failing, it doesn't take too long for the rest of the device/hardware to fail.
 
1. Put the router on a battery backup or power conditioning system. I found out that routers on bad (rapidly fluctuating) power stop working. A few routers I thought were completely dead were fine once I put it on a battery backup. YMMV.

2. I'm assuming its an apartment complex. I'd just use the 5GHz. The reason it probably doesn't work in N only mode in 2.4GHz because IIRC it requires more of the radio spectrum and that might not be happening with so many other signals around. Have you tried a different channel?

I doubt the router is dying since the G signal is working as well as the A. Which confirms both bands (2.4/5) are functional.
 
I didn't test the 2.4Ghz band thoroughly but the 5Ghz band no longer works on "n only." We tried all sorts of channels.
 
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