Review on WiFi router TP-LINK Archer AX73, black by Aadam Rods ᠌

Name: WiFi router TP-LINK Archer AX73, black
Item: WiFi router TP-LINK Archer AX73, black
Rating: 2

April 12, 2023

Unsatisfactory, upset by this product.

Constant reboots of TP-LINK got tired, as a result I bought a Beelink mini-PC on a 4-core Celeron N5095 2GHz (2.9GHz) and a TP-LINK TL-SG108E switch with VLAN support and made a router on them. As a result, the router turned out to be quite expensive, but a 4K TV is connected to it, you can work and watch YouTube. The Archer AX73 itself is used in AP (Access Point) mode. It should be noted that the router turned out under Windows, at first I wanted to use pfSense, but I decided to try to do it under Windows. Happened.
Before that, there was an ASUS RT-N66U router, I don’t remember how many years it worked, but recently it began to slow down and reboot under load, I decided to buy a budget TP-LINK. If you want a reliable router, then it is probably better to buy a modern ASUS, many people complain about TP-LINK, about its unpredictable behavior. While the assembled structure does not look very good, but it works. In the future, I will hide all the wires and devices behind the table.
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Pros

quick

Cons

Big, but most importantly - it spontaneously reboots, while, of course, the connection is broken. Sometimes it happens several times a day, sometimes it works without interruption for several days. I don’t recommend it to anyone as a router, as an access point - it’s normal, but it’s expensive to use as an AP. The manufacturer constantly writes that the reboot is due to unstable power supply, but I have a mega-stable power supply. I think the problem with the crooked software is probably low-quality RAM. But the router itself has a minimum of tools for any diagnostics. I would like to have a more open software than the one used in TP-LINK.