Have you ever heard of this issue?

Hi Furry,

Thank you for always taking the time to follow up first of all. 

To make a very, very long story short, turns out, all of the reboot issues were chalked up to my RBE971 being a total lemon. They RMA'ed it after having a ticket open for over a month, changing ISPs, and sending extensive logs in, trying beta FWs, rolling FW back... and after all of that, I have not had a single reboot for going on 2 weeks with the new router. So if youre using deductive reasoning, it's pretty clear the original router had faulty hardware. 

It's just a shame that after investing so much money in a system, that a customer can go through such an ordeal. 

A lot of the hoops I had to jump through were done on the basis of good faith, and trying to have confidence in Netgear. That being said, this was probably the worst experience I have had with any piece of technology I can think of, ever. 

Had you not recommended I inquire about the RMA process I probably would have still been dealing with more of those hoops, so thank you very much.