A picture of a router on a table, with a woman in the back using a laptop - Aquaarts Studio/Getty Images A router is one of the most common devices that people don't bother updating until a problem ...

As long as your router has not reached its end of life (EOL), the manufacturer will push firmware updates to it regularly. If you don't update it, the network may begin to behave poorly over time.

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Right, so. I just bought me a Linksys WRTGL to keep the possibility of third-party firmware open. I checked out the various sites for OpenWRT, HyperWRT, and DD-WRT and one common theme was a pretty ...