ZyXEL is fucking awesome.
The interface is great, the free 15 dB antenna is great and it's sexy. (And free from some ISPs)
Except my iPhone gets horrible signal quality when I'm shitting in my 2nd floor bathroom.
I'm going to go slightly off topic(it is wireless, but it isn't a router/related to wifi in any way), and say the mamba, great mouse but very expensive.
[QUOTE=binarybitz;18913555]ZyXEL is fucking awesome.
The interface is great, the free 15 dB antenna is great and it's sexy. (And free from some ISPs)
Except my iPhone gets horrible signal quality when I'm shitting in my 2nd floor bathroom.[/QUOTE]
I've used 3 ZyXEL routers, 1 enterprise and 2 home, and they all failed horribly.
My 5 year old 11mbit netgear router could hold the signal better than the enterprise one.
Signal completely died when going through walls. :frown:
I am using a ZyXEL router at the moment. My old Linksys router was good initially but it started to die on me to the point where I was resetting it at least four times a day.
[QUOTE=apwd007;18912640]That's a load of crap
Every single consumer make of networking products have produced product lines and products riddled with problems at some time or another, being a very quickly evolving technology it's very difficult to get a constant stream of perfect products. Their wireless and wired routers have had problems, but were generally considered, and still are, much more reliable than companies such as NETGEAR.[/QUOTE]
Quickly evolving technology? Dog piss.
10/100 and Gigabit networking has been around well over [b]10 YEARS[/b] with many of Linksys's [b]current production[/b] products being nearly as old or older. They've had plenty of time to work the bugs out of their hardware. But wait, they don't actually make their own hardware, most if not all of their routers use a generic Broadcom SOAC which can be obtained from a plethora of suppliers.
Take a look at how many revisions some of their products have had, some of them are up to rev. 8.x and still have the same issues as the first model did, if not worse. In some cases the newer revisions are crippled more than the older revisions by reducing the amount of RAM and flash memory available for the firmware.
Wireless is in the same boat. Unlike CPUs, the wireless standard doesn't get new upgrades and features overnight, there's no excuse for a product line started in 2003 to have the same problems with both the firmware and hardware that it did 6 years ago.
Cisco has basically the same motto as Ford and GM do where if you have a low budget, you get few features. If you have a high budget, buy Cisco products and get tons of features.
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