router, switch, firewall, printserver, WAP
couple year old design
parallel printer port for server,
only 802.11b 11Mbps WiFi (but that's still
way faster than my cable modem).
Has 4 wired ports which can bridge to wireless,
so my WiFi laptop can transfer files to/from my
wired desktop.
-Ben
>So I have a Linksys 4-port Cable/DSL router. It's worked great until
>about 2 weeks ago, when it totally freaked out and wouldn't release its
>DHCP lease with Comcast. I spent pretty much all day getting it back
>online.
>
>It worked great for awhile and now it seems to be locking up several
>times a day, to the point where I have to do the magic
>router-reanimation-dance and power it down, power down the cable modem,
>then power them both back up in reverse order. Note that it does not
>appear to matter if I am naked when performing said dance.
>
>So, this is a two-fold question:
>
>1) Anyone have this problem before and find a permanent fix?
>
>2) Assuming the answer to number one is buying a different router, does
>anyone have any non-linksys suggestions? Needs to be pretty low-profile
>so it will fit in our silly media hub that lives in the wall of our
>closet. Minimum 4-ports, plus all those nifty firewall features and stuff.
>
>-Bret
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