cottonthePrt

Something I’m interested in with these devices is the power draw. Presumably the main reason you want to switch something off is power savings, if it’s a small draw (like your usb-c charger) you may be incurring more vampire current from the Wi-Fi switch. I’ve seen the go from about one watt to almost ten (based on kill-o-watt readings)

I haven't had wifi troubles in about 5-10 years with third party routers. That wasn't the case at all until about 2010, when the linksys,belkins, etc would have trouble making and keeping a connection. Where I did have a problem was with Time Machine. Just a few years back I bought an Asus ( https://amzn.to/2r58B91 ) router that supported time machine (since dropped it looks like). It worked fine for Wi-Fi, but about every 6 weeks my mac would say the TM backup was corrupted and it had to start over. Not something that made me feel secure about my backups! I got an Airport Extreme and hooked up an external USB disk after that and it's been running 2+ years without an error.