My internet at home has been wonky of late - works great for 5 minutes, goes to hell for 30-90 seconds, works great for five minutes, repeat.


I have rebooted both modem and router multiple times, the symptoms persist.




So this morning I connected my desktop PC directly to the modem and ran a speed test.  66Mbps down, just under 5Mbps up.




I reconnected the router and the same PC - wired to the router - gets 23Mbps down and similar upload speeds.




I can't think of any good reason for the throughput of the router to be 1/3 the throughput of the modem other than it's a cheap Netgear that's 5+ years old.




I'm not going to buy another $40 router. I'd like to keep it under $100 and Amazon Prime would be a bonus.




Suggestions?


 

ETA - leaning toward Archer C7 for $90.

Porter Cable 690

Any ASUS within your budget should suit you just fine.

Juniper srx210.

Yep, just get one that supports DD-WRT.

Netgear Nighthawk

Asus rt-n66U

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833320091