RAX120 repeatedly reboots

My router 'WiFi' seems to be resetting itself with more and more frequency, and it is more and more random. The hardwire connections remain fine, and the router itself is rebooting at least daily. I did a firmware upgrade, checked the logs, nothing really to suggest anything other than it is the WiFi hardware aspects that are doing what I've seen WiFi Routers do, usually within their first year - start having hardware problems. It doesn't seem to matter what the brand is either. I haven't owned my own router in years, but I went total ''SmartDevice" earlier this year, and this router solved all of my problem - clean, fast, amazing. About a month ago, it started this now escalating pattern of WiFi failure.

I purchased an Extened Warrantee from BestBuy, it is just part of owning this kind of equipment. I'll be pulling the router and getting new one today. I've been doing this sort of thing for over 20 years now. I wish they would either build these things better, or have some kind of self-diagnostic that simply and clearly tells you - hardware is failing instead of wasting everyone's time with this dog-and pony show. It is an industry problem. Netgear still makes awesome products. This pattern of escalating WiFi failure is so familiar. I appreciated everyone here who has shared and reported their experiences. It helped me realize, I am not the only one dealing with the issues, and all of you working through and reporting your results of the basic troubleshooting processes have inspired me to not waste my time further on something that is very familiar to me.

I'd buy this group a pizza party if I could, to say thank you. The adventure continues.

Two ways of approach this warranty thing (TIP), buy from COSTCO (which doesn't always have the cool stuff), but you can take things back 10 years from now, because you are not satisfied. (laugh), or buy from Best Buy, pay for the extended Warrantee, and track it, and always exchange your equipment prior to expiration, and repurchase or upgrade to a new model, and pay for a new extended warrantee. (They will actually tell you to do this when you buy stuff there, I think it really is part of their business model.) Gotta pay to play - (laugh). Mutual exploration or something. Good news is, the toys and tools do get better. I just think the WiFi components burn out in 24 months or less, and usually 12 months or less. Whatever the default warrantee...that is a pretty good guide for when failures and glitches start showing up.