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We're having a Netgear WGR614v2 router, and as soon as a device generates some WiFi Traffic, the router completely dies.

By opening http://9gag.com/ I can reproduce the problem. 

$ ping 192.168.0.1
From 192.168.0.2 icmp_seq=215 Destination Host Unreachable

Is it possible that the router can't handle the number of simultanious connections that modern browsers use?

It's quite old.

There's probably nothing you can do?

Andy
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We had the same model (or same family) long time ago and it had similar symptoms before it completely died. Network traffic slowed down, and WiFi range dropped dramatically. When opened, I noticed some of the capacitors had noticeable 'bulges'.

So I'm guessing the electronics inside yours is just coming to the end of its life.

turtlefarm
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