[NTLUG:Discuss] What happened to Linksys?? BEFSR81v3 is junk

[Steve Southwell]

Jay Urish wrote:

> Get away from linksys...
> They are cheap junk in a plastic clamshell.
>
> I use netgear...

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I suppose anyone can have a bad experience.  For the longest time, I 
only used LinkSys equipment, and had no problems.  My first wireless 
router was a Netgear - it wouldn't stay up for more than 5 minutes at a 
time, and turned pistol hot.  I took it back and got a LinkSys, which 
still works perfectly.  At the same time that I bought that router, I 
bought 2 netgear wireless PCMCIA cards.  One of them bit the dust within 
2 months.  A couple of months ago, I wanted to upgrade to G, and the 
Microsoft branded hardware was on-sale, so I said "what the heck - it's 
M$, so it should work well with my XP notebooks..."  I've never been so 
wrong.  What a piece of garbage...  Embedded IIS as the web interface, 
which now responds with an error screen... 

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