but dropping connection several times ruins anything positive

However up until it died, it was a champ, good signal, decent web interface, rebooted in a reasonable time compared to similar products.

I've gotten really fast reads from my wired NAS in the quiet time on my network on my old router

Each time, a reboot (or unplugging it and plugging it back in) seems to work for a short while, then the problem is back

I would lose internet access many times throughout the day and narrowed it down to this product

and I don't have time to waste dealing with writing D-Link, wasting more money to send them the defective piece of crap they produced, and not even being guaranteed a new, reliable product

Delayed start / load times

and it still loses internet several times a week