* Phil Karn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050313 14:28]: > I agree. Netgear's plain vanilla Ethernet hubs and switches have always > worked great for me (I also like their simple metal cases) but their > WR614 wireless access point was always a problem. It had poor coverage, > and even at close range we had unacceptably high packet loss rates to > our Power books. Firmware upgrades and appeals to customer support > didn't help. So it's been sitting unused in a box ever since we got our > first Linksys WRT54G.
I've been using the Netgear WGR614 (v3) for almost a year now. I definitely wouldn't call it perfect, but it's fine once you work around some of it's brokenness. My network consists of several machines, almost all of which run Linux. The WGR614's DHCP and DynDNS functions were both broken, so I've switched those to being handled by my fileserver. The Netgear would also crap out with Bittorrent transfers on a wireless device, but seems fine with Bittorrent on wired devices... so I run the bt client on a wired machine and display it on a wireless machine. Really, all I use it for is wireless/wired connectivity and routing to the outside. > I really wish Consumer Reports could evaluate stuff like this. They > could save a lot of people a lot of time and money. Agreed. I got it 'cause it was the cheapest on the market... you get what you pay for... but again, it's fine if you limit it's responsibilities. :) _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
