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

[Jay Urish]

At 10:19 PM 6/30/2004, you wrote:


>Jay Urish wrote:
>
>>Get away from linksys...
>>They are cheap junk in a plastic clamshell.
>>
>>I use netgear...
>
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You are right... I believe the same thing.. Especially in Ham Radio.. One 
brand can have 3 models that kick ass in a row and then WHAM! a real dog 
comes out..

For wireless, I have been pointing people to the senao 200mw device.. I 
wouldn't touch a netgear wireless anything....

For wireless nics, I like the orinco cards...



>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...
>--

Jay Urish
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