[OT] BEFSR41 = bad (was: Re: DSL support)

[Danny MacMillan]

On Mon, Nov 08, 2004 at 02:27:21AM -0700, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
 
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  From: Danny MacMillan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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 ...
 
  It
  replaced a 3 year old Hawking Technology PN9245F that worked like a
  champ, aside from a couple of bad ports.
 
 
 Well, I guess the lesson here is if the Hawking Tech product worked well,
 and you didn't reward Hawking for making a solid product by buying another
 one from them, you kind of got what you deserved, don't you think? :-)

laugh  That's one way of looking at it, but I needed all ports working.
Besides, the BEFSR41 is what all the cool kids were buying, and looks much
snazzier on my desktop to boot, and didn't cost as much.  It's only
apparent failing is an inability to route packets when I want them routed.
That's one negative and three positives.  So I think I made a shrewd
purchase decision.  :)

Thanks for the advice in re: RMA-ing the router; I never considered that.
Usually components either fail out of the box or wait until the warranty
period is over.

 I myself most recently bought a Hawking wireless bridge for my father.
 It was a bit odd to setup, as the firmware had to be flashed from
 access point firmware to bridging firmware and no mention of this
 was made in the manual.  But it has worked great since.  I am glad to
 hear that your Hawking lasted 3 years, it gives me some hope that the
 one I got for my father will also.

It's still working; I gave it to a less technical fried of mine who only
needs one port working on the LAN side to shield her Windows computer from
the evil badness of the internet.

-- 
Danny
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RE: [OT] BEFSR41 = bad (was: Re: DSL support)

[Ted Mittelstaedt]

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 Besides, the BEFSR41 is what all the cool kids were buying, and looks much
 snazzier on my desktop to boot, and didn't cost as much.

Gee I wonder why! :-)

Actually, ever since Cisco bought Linksys and came out with the version 3
BEFSR41's the quality has really gone downhill - with at least the
BEFSR41's.

I've heard better reports about the Linux-based Linksys routers.  If you
can do an exchange you might want to get one of those.  There's even some
mods for their firmware out there on the Internet.  Of course they are more
expensive. :-(


 Thanks for the advice in re: RMA-ing the router; I never considered that.
 Usually components either fail out of the box or wait until the warranty
 period is over.


Yeah, well don't thank me yet, you might have to do that a couple more times
before you get a good one. :-(

Ted

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