That's odd, I have half a dozen routers that have come and gone over the years, they're still in my equipment closet. I've dragged a number of them out over the years for various experiments, many times they got powered up for extended periods of time with no antenna. I've never seen any degradation of the wireless signal on them. I've run stuff like the Lionel CAB1 with no antenna as well, still works fine. I certainly don't know how you were able to destroy a whole bunch of them by just leaving the antenna off, but that's sure not normal.
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