absolutely. It is all comes down to your individual needs and requirements and how easy you want to make your life. I download a tonne of stuff and have pcs, laptops, phones, printers, nas servers, TV's and bluray players all hooked up on my network and it comes as no surprise that I want it all to work when I try and use it. For something that is pretty much in permanent use 24/7 by one person or another it is worth paying for decent equipment. I have got 3 Linksys routers and 3 Linksys switches (which all have a nice Cisco logo on top (Qas
)) which make up the backbone of my network and I never have any problems whatsoever. Some of that is due to good quality equipment from a reliability point of view and the other part is the features decent equipment brings. One particular issue which keeps cropping up of late is that of DNS servers. If you was on your phone or tv and wanted to use youtube or something and couldn't connect would you think youtube is the problem, the phone, the tv or maybe the Wi-Fi? Many people wouldn't assume it is a dns issue (if they even knew what it is) and it isn't something you can rectify in a straight forward way either because as fundamental as it is, it is a feature VM seem like screwing everyone over with. In large networks with multiple devices there are many variables you have to take into account when something goes wrong and the more of them you can mitigate/eliminate the better.