I have had a netgear for many years, when it died (everything died in the old house, private power company, surges, brownouts on a daily basis) I was lazy and replaced it with the same model so I could just upload the saved settings to it.

It's still in use, think that was like four or five years ago it was replaced.

When I was looking for an access point, I purchased a used d-link on e-bay, it's also been flawless, probably a year and a half now.