Yeah. in this case I'd been messing with it for a couple hours, trying to get everything to connect and when he said he'd had problems connecting to the internet wirelessly on his laptop that morning, that was the final straw. In the future, I'm not going to take as much time to reach that decision. If I have any problems connecting to it, I'll recommend a new router.
The customer told me that the Netgear had cost over $100 brand new. 'Course part of that was probably Geek Squad setting it up. J John-AldrichTile-Tools From: Carl Houseman [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 12:18 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Wireless Routers Buy factory refurbs. They've already been fixed.. J Seriously, I'm running DD-WRT on several Netgear refurbs, couldn't be happier. This particular model of Netgear had a history of PS problems but the refurbs came with the 'fixed' PS. Regarding troubleshooting, a factory reset (using the pushbutton) followed by firmware upgrade should be attempted before tossing them in the trash. Carl From: Roger Wright [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 12:01 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Wireless Routers I've had issues with Netgear, D-Link, and Linksys/Cisco consumer routers. It seems most are only good for about 18-24 months and then need to be replaced. I do like the Linksys GUI best but that's probably just because I'm more familiar with it. But for $50, it's not worth the time to mess with them if a simple reset doesn't allow you to connect. Die dulci fruere! Roger Wright ___ On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 10:17 AM, John Aldrich <[email protected]> wrote: This weekend, I spent about 4 hours working at a client's site (side job) trying to get their desktop to link up to their existing wireless router (Netgear.) I never succeeded and I was also unable to get my Dell laptop to talk to their wireless router. After fussing with it for over 2 hours, I went to Walmart and bought a WRT54GS2 Linksys wireless (same exact model I have at home) and hooked it up. Instant success. Long story short - if I ever have a job where I can't get the wireless to connect, and the user has a Netgear wireless router, I'm not even going to spend time on it, I'll just tell the client I'm going to go buy a different router that *will* work and get another Linksys. Just thought I'd pass this along for anyone who's looking for a new wireless router. J ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
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