Fritz!Box 7590 ftw!
I'm the admin of (takes his fingers to count) seven networks of some friends and relatives of mine and they are simply working. Since they are consumer routers, they are having some limitations but besides that, they are fast and reliable and are doing simply their job.
The FritzBox together with that Czech router, the Turris Omnia, are rare exceptions to the 'consumer "routers" suck' default. Beyond that, you're left to whatever clue the Chinese tag-team of for-hire coders decided this 5-week project was worthy before it becomes abandonware on a too-old GPL violation with backdoors the size of a Walmart loading dock.
I'm involved in running network to and at 40 branch offices, a major datacenter and a multi-terabit streaming operation at work. I do not need to be at the mercy of such lusership at home; I'd rather have something that I can fix. And the boat anchors, for starters, have their quirks documented..
Yes I’m super irritable and sensitive about routers that don’t work.
I had a sky SR100 for a bit after Sky bought our BeThere over here. This was a little MIPS box with a passion for running out of memory because it was completely inadequately specified and ran a buggy Linux kernel which leaked all the RAM every 2-3 days causing the NAT to just eat packets. End game was it required a restart nightly.
This took a month long battle and eventual resignation to the fact I’d have to fire them and pay up to exit the contract. Best £200 I ever burned that was
The thing that gets me is the customer support attitude I see a lot these days. This appeared in my conversation with them (and the one over the dock recently). This is a fine piece of humanity being broken which is fundamental to why we’re going to fail as a species:
“well no one else is having any problems so why are you?”
I will personally find and fucking eviscerate anyone who tells me that these day.
Edit: just a nice pile of shit that landed today as well about ISPs here:
https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2021/03/two-uk-broadband-isps-trial-new-internet-snooping-system.html