[QUOTE=KorJax;38869642]this thread is full of [I]atleast one well paid[/I] nerds[/QUOTE]
FTFY
I used a WRT54G then WRT54G2 and the damn second one had to be replaced every few months just kept dying. I literally bought three of them at one point just to flip em out when need be. After 2 months the connections just couldnt hold anymore.
Jumped to amped wireless a couple of months ago and been loving there S20000G Much better range and speeds then Linksys's equivalent priced one. And I don't get that dumb online management thing.
i wish i could use a linksys router but noooooo i must use my cable provider's shitty 2wire router in order to use their TV
[QUOTE=SilentOpp;38868230]That's disappointing, my WRT54G has got to be the best router I've ever owned. I haven't tried their newer stuff but I don't expect a large quality gap.[/QUOTE]
Cisco totally trashed Linksys when they bought them out. They fired all of the people in Linksys that made Linksys innovative and started churning out crap afterwards.
A good example would be the BEFSRx1 series. Linksys started that line of routers, but midway through they were bought out and the later revisions that Cisco had a hand in (beyond rev 3) were complete shit. Cisco stripped the hardware down so much that doing any sort of mildly demanding task caused the router to reboot, crash or just stop responding from having too big of a connection table open (I think which is limited to like 1000.)
They also didn't introduce badly needed upgrades to that series like a 100 MBPS WAN port. When the BEFSRx1 was released, most cable and DSL modems had a 10BaseT ethernet port, which was introduced in the BEFSRx1 router. But later on cable modems and DSL modems switched to 100BaseT. This causes the router to go into an infinite loop of trying to negotiate down the connection and eventually failing and dropping the connection.
There were numerous other issues that Cisco never bothered fixing with Linksys products, and just used the problems as a push to get consumers to buy more expensive Cisco hardware instead.
I used my WRT54GL for years, one of the best routers I've ever tried. But at a certain point the OpenWRT firmware I was using grew too large for it's memory, so it stopped saving any settings and I had to replace it (With a Netgear WNDR3800)
[QUOTE=Hullu V3;38868439]It still seemed like doing a million commands to achieve quite small tasks.[/QUOTE]
This is the exact reason you run a DHCP server on the network, with a set pool of IP addresses to lease. Also works over multiple routers and you can make life 50x easier if you use RIP or OSPF.
Man you guys need to get with the times, Cisco is for old people and nerds. Your server room could be pimp with purple switches and sexy bitches if you go with Extreme.
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