Switched a client from a 5 year old bargain router to a used business AP and cut their tickets from 6 a month to zero

Jana Jones · 2026-09-18T09:30:04.357502+00:00

This dental office off Chestnut Street kept calling me about their front desk wifi dropping, and I finally figured out it was one of those cheap all in one routers from 2019 overheating in a closet with no air flow. I swapped it for a $40 used Ruckus access point I had sitting in my parts bin, moved it out of the closet, and ran a plain ethernet line to the switch. That was three months ago and they have not called me once since, after two years of me being there every other week. Turns out a $40 commercial unit that was built to handle 50 devices beats a $90 consumer box every single time, who would have guessed. What is your go to cheap hardware swap that ends up killing a recurring problem for good?

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