Ask HN: What is your approach to product reviews?

I want to buy a router with a better range (or maybe a mesh one) and OMG every single one of the competing products has like 20% 1-star reviews on Amazon claiming problems, and these are all $250 products. It is very depressing to see this huge amount of 1-star reviews to every option I have, and they all seem to be somewhat consistent (mostly everybody is claiming the same problems for the same product).

In the past I bought quite a few products where the thing 1-star reviewers were complaining about was turned out to be a problem for me too, and so now I'm completely frozen in my research. Of course I had cases where the 1-star issue didn't happen, but those generally don't come to my mind.

How do you guys deal with this?

Sometimes I think about my experience of going to a BestBuy and just looking at the boxes in the shelves and buying in a few minutes, going home and everything works and I'm happy and I didn't waste countless hours. But when I do research on the Internet (mostly Amazon reviews), the process always seems to generate a lot of anxiety for me and fear of spending money just to be yet another unhappy customer like all these 1-star givers that I'm reading.

I worry that too much information is the problem for me here.

Do you share these feelings? How do you deal with it?