I don't doubt that you're correct about this, but I've never experienced it personally, and I've installed a couple dozen of these. The church I do tech support for has two of them installed, and one of them has been running at maximum for a couple years now. If it dies, it's a mere $50-70 to replace it. That's worth it when you get reliable internet access throughout the entire building. And it is reliable. I haven't seen any issues on that end either...