That is true. But today it isn’t about the age of the router or the cost. It’s all about the programming black magic that the manufacturer slams in there to try and fool the user into thinking it is the fastest, most powerful router network on the planet. Some of the most expensive and most powerful mesh routers today that can support a bazillion devices do that by throttling, metering, juggling, and rearranging devices on the network. It is a digital shell game all the time and it all favors the faster streaming devices on the 5GHz and mods 6GHz bands.
I had a guy who was assigned as my driver when I was stationed overseas. He was one of the biggest, baddest, strongest, fastest, fittest specimens of pure physical talent I have ever uncountered. I sent him back less than a week later and told my Personnel Officer to find me a new one. He was one of the dumbest they had ever sent. Couldn’t tell time if it wasn’t digital. Counted on his fingers to do math. Couldn’t navigate his way out of a wet paper bag. And the radio… Don’t get me started on trying to train him on how to use SINCGARS.
The point… It can be the strongest, fastest, newest, most powerful router on earth. If the little microprocessor brains on the inside aren’t programmed to do exactly what you need them to do, you have a very expensive paper weight. No one wants to believe their router isn’t capable because they paid so much for it and the Kool Aid they drank when buying it said it was the biggest, baddest, strongest, fastest on the planet. I always have to giggle when I see the word “Gaming” right in the title too. Guess how many Gaming routers are installed in enterprise installation applications. Zero. Because that isn’t what they are made for.