On Tue, 2008-07-01 at 09:17 -0400, Bill Freeman wrote: > > ... I've not really been > > interested in Linksys gear because I've had terrible experience with the > > hardware just crapping out, and I've had good experience with Netgear, so I > > was glad to see this. > > On the other hand, I've had the only Netgear that I owned crap out too. To be > fair, it provided years of service first. >
Bill beat me to the punch on this. I've had plenty of bad hardware/firmware from both Netgear and LinkSys. D-Link will also find detractors for pretty much the same reasons. The issue for me with these brands is the relatively poor support. But then as Bill pointed out, the margin pressure on these products precludes the kind of support you will see from Cisco, Juniper or other high margin vendors. I still use both Netgear and LinkSys when reliability is not a primary concern. You can buy a lot of $50 appliances for the cost of one Cisco et al router. -Alex > Any product under the margin pressure that home routers see probably isn't > using, > for example, pre-burned in chips or MIL spec boards and soldering techniques. > > But, yes, it's great to see Linux compatibility in someone's marketing plan. > > Bill > > _______________________________________________ > gnhlug-discuss mailing list > gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org > http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/ _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
