s|b wrote:
On Mon, 16 Apr 2018 17:48:12 -0700, David E. Ross wrote:

How long should a router last? Mine is over two years old. Twice
today, I had to reboot it in order to access any Web pages.

It depends. Is your router running Windows 7?

And I think the question has been adequately answered.
That routers this year, are reliable. They haven't always
been, like in the "bad cap" era.

Rebooting a router, causes a couple things to happen. Sure,
it restarts the router. But it also wipes out the connection
information in Windows 7, when DHCP comes back up. A symptom
of "my networking came back", might erroneously assume it
was the router reboot that fixed it, when in fact it was
a Windows 7 issue.

I've found when debugging, there's always overlap,
and someone has to take the bull by the horns to make
progress.

If we always shaved every problem down into tiny little
silos ("legal-style debugging"), with no integration
of results, we wouldn't get anywhere.

Our role here, isn't to spread misery thickly with a knife.
Toss out an idea, and move on.

If you want to see providers of misery, drop over to the
HVAC group sometime, and ask a question about your furnace :-)

Paul