I hate netgear and linksys seems to generally get better over time. I'm unthrilled with the way cisco (which owns linksys now) kind of shirked their open source responsibilities, but that doesn't change that the hardware works well.
For clearer perspective, I'm in the IT manager in a company employing about 300 people who work at home on a VOIP phone. Each of them have a router of their own choosing and I get to deal with all the various brands of weirdness that each one brings. None have been perfect, but Netgears have been the worst and Linksys' have been the .... well, least bad. -wes On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 5:53 PM, Richard C. Steffens <[email protected]>wrote: > I had some connect problems today that came and went, and finally went. > I called the Comcast tech support line and, after an automated attempt > at resetting my modem -- which included their computer asking me to > unplug my router! -- I still couldn't connect to the Internet. So their > phone computer connected me to a helpful tech support guy. We went > through the same process of resetting the modem from their end (I had > tried power cycling myself before I called) but it didn't help. Then he > had me disconnect the router and connect one of my computers directly. > After he again reset the modem, I was connected. He then had me > reconnect the router, and he reset the modem, and everything worked. > > His surmise was that the router was failing. In his experience they only > last 2-3 years. Mine has lasted over 10 years. It is a Netgear RT-314. > If he is correct, then I've had plenty of good service and shouldn't be > too concerned about having to replace it. If they are as reliable as > switches, then I'm not surprised. I've had to replace a couple of those > over the years. > > So, my question: What routers are you folks using that you're happy with? > > > TIA for recommendations. > > -- > Regards, > > Dick Steffens > > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
