I have a thread I started on the WNDR Tips and Guide side asking about the stability of the WNDR4500v1 with an attached external drive. It later occured to me that the router power supply rails were probably being pulled too low supporting the external drive. I tested this theory by attaching an external power supply for the drive. After a bit of restore and reload I wasable to get the router stable again.
That was nearly a month ago. Well the problems have returned but this time I upgraded the drive power supply to a 2A USB unit and replced the router power brick with a nice 12VDC 5A unit from Frys. What keeps me from outright replacing the 4500 is apart from the strange WAN to LAN disconnects and flaky WAN DHCP updating the rest of the unit fuctions fine. The LAN side and processor fuctions appear to be working fine. Other than mayby a flaky WAN port PHY I can't figure out what could be wrong with this router as it was working flawlessly until I connected the external drive.
What I want to know is on average how long do new Netgear routers last when up 24x7 as mine are. I have been using nothing but Netgear since my first FR314 back in 2000. Every metal box Netgear product I have had from 2000 to present still works if I dig them out but the new plastic boxes, the WNDRs all seam to die within 2-3 years. I don't know if I want to upgrade to the new high dollar AC units as I really don't need super duper wireless. 95% of my network is wired "as it should be". I only use wireless for my phone, tablet and Kindle.
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