So, consumer grade routers, such as the ones supplied by many ISPs, do not handle large amounts of packets well.
They can 'lock up' as the internal hardware gets overwhelmed dealing with this sort of thing. Plus many of them have subpar cooling for any kind of 'actual' workload.
Unmanaged switches, like the trusty 5 port netgears many of us use and love have nothing that helps to mitigate this.
So yes, a better router(I personally love my TPLink ones as I can schedule them to restart periodically) might very well help. Or some better cooling ala heatsinks, or a box fan. Or just power cycle the thing every couple days *shrug*
They can 'lock up' as the internal hardware gets overwhelmed dealing with this sort of thing. Plus many of them have subpar cooling for any kind of 'actual' workload.
Unmanaged switches, like the trusty 5 port netgears many of us use and love have nothing that helps to mitigate this.
So yes, a better router(I personally love my TPLink ones as I can schedule them to restart periodically) might very well help. Or some better cooling ala heatsinks, or a box fan. Or just power cycle the thing every couple days *shrug*