Router Rappin'

A lil while back, I wrote up a quick comparison of Printers, in the interest of generating helpful dialogue for people looking at such teengs, and so here is a similar quick chat about network Routers..

Any of these certainly work from time to time, but from what I've used, this is my take on 'em, from worst to best in reliability:

NetGear - This make has been the least reliable in my experience, often failing to sync and play nice with many modems and sometimes even just randomly dropping its duties on a circuit completely unless it gets power-cycled.

Belkin - I'd like to say this one is better than it is, but I can't. They have been known to have made pretty good cabling over the years, but the brand may be weakening. I've seen these mostly have difficulty staying connected for extended periods of time, and one I saw have issues right out of the box, losing connections every few minutes. Unlike the NetGear which would need a manual reboot, this brand will reconnect by itself, but it's mighty annoying, and my customer never saw the issue corrected until we finally just got a new router (different brand).

LinkSys - These are fairly decent, but somewhat sensitive (like the above ones) to heat, so they can fail if allowed to overheat in warm locations.

D-Link - I've had the highest success rate from this make, and though they can also have a bit of sensitivity to heat, it seems a bit less of a problem than with the LinkSys.

There are also other off-brands I'd rate, like the Dynex home brand of Best Buy, which is actually pretty darn tootin' good, but the above are the main four you are likely to see in stores as far as I know.

Any other thoughts or personal experiences with these contraptions? :>