How often to upgrade routers?
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How often to upgrade routers?
How often do you feel people should upgrade their routers and other network equipment?
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Re: How often to upgrade routers?
If the router works for them, and does not slow down their internet, I feel people should not upgrade their router unless there are security problems with their router.
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Re: How often to upgrade routers?
At work to increase our sale profit, we've been told that security advances can make a router outdated quickly. So buying a new one can give a person a more secure network.
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Re: How often to upgrade routers?
There is also a chance of buying a less secure router if the router has security problems like unfixed security problems in the firmware or hardware like Intel Spectre and Meltdown.
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Re: How often to upgrade routers?
from what I understand all stores switch out their stock every six months for the latest and greatest. You only risk that if you were to buy a clearance router.
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Re: How often to upgrade routers?
I heard some third-party router firmware like DD-WRT which is a Linux firmware is more secure than the firmware which comes with some new routers where they may re-use the old firmware without fixing security problems which exist.
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Re: How often to upgrade routers?
that's another issue, to push something out they may not fully upgrade it like they should.