Linksys Velop WiFi 7 Router

Upgraded my old Linksys OpenWrt router with the latest. Was plug in play out of the box. Had to search how to change the SSID in OpenWrt, but got it done in a few minutes. Speed is great. Coverage is as good as the old router with external antennas. I had not touched the old Linksys router in years, hope this one is just as good.

I don't typically write customer reviews, but I felt I needed to warn others.I bought one of these routers and, at first, it seemed great. The 6 GHz band was super fast, the connection seemed stable, and I was happy.Until I tried to download files from a website I frequent. The downloads were not completing, always failing at the last second. "That's weird," I thought, "I wonder why?"So I tried using the 5 GHz band as a sanity check. Nope, no dice.Maybe the 2.4 GHz band? This sort of worked. The files would occasionally download now, but they were often corrupt.So I tried transferring some files to my local NAS. I observed the same corruption.My brother had bought one of these for his house at the same time, so I re-ran my tests on his router for a sanity check. Same issues. I had him run them on his computer too, again as a sanity check. Nope, still corrupting files.Now, it's possible that this was a software issue on the router. Maybe a security setting that was a little overzealous. But the point is that a router should, at bare minimum, be able to transfer files with zero data loss across the network. This is a minimum requirement for any router, it is not an optional feature.It's also possible that my brother and I just both got lemons, and that these routers are generally reliable. But I kind of doubt it.TL;DR: I bought one of these and it corrupted files during upload/download. Don't risk it. Just buy something else.