I grabbed a 24-inch Dell LCD from a garage sale back in 2020 for $15, and it finally gave out last week with a dead pixel line down the middle. My parents' old CRT from the 90s sat in the basement for like 15 years before we finally tossed it. Why is it that the simpler stuff just refuses to die?
Found this Linksys EA7500 sitting on top of a trash pile last Tuesday near my apartment in Austin. Compared to the ancient Netgear I was using, the range on this thing is night and day. I can actually get a signal in my backyard now without moving my laptop around. Has anyone else scored a decent router from the street or are they usually junk?
I pulled an old Netgear Nighthawk out of a pile on trash day last week. A neighbor walked over and said 'check if the firmware's been messed with, these get dumped for a reason.' Sure enough, it was bricked from a bad update. Has anyone else found a router that looked fine but had software issues?