@ashkitten haha yeah. there's a lot of people who think stuff is fine until you put it under load and it crumbles. honestly the only ISP-supplied stuff I've seen that were any good were from Cisco, but all the ISPs around here are phasing those out because they're too expensive.

So I just buy my own router + AP, upgrade independently, and run their supplied one in straight bridge mode. cuts out like 90% of the problems my friends see.