BTW - my Orinoco AP-500, for comparison sake, has just survived a very harsh nessus scan without even a hiccup.
But I do agree: once you throw out engineering, quality, remote management capabilities, enterprise level features, and the like the "Best Buy quality" hardware and enterprise quality hardware are usually the same.
Greg
On Tuesday, Dec 30, 2003, at 18:50 US/Eastern, Greg Brown wrote:
But we're back to business vs. home use. Cisco has been wanting to get into the home market for a long time so purchasing Linksys seems like a logical step. Comparing the quality of inksys hardware to something that Cisco, Foundry, Extreme, etc might produce gives me a good chuckle, though. Last time I checked there was nothing from Linksys on the government TIC approved list. And there's a reason for that (probably several).
In the end for home use Linksys is probably fine. $79.00 for a card and an AP is hard to beat. On a network that I had to support I wouldn't have a Linksys anything unless I wanted to visit the client on a higher than regular basis for some reason.
Greg
On Monday, Dec 29, 2003, at 21:27 US/Eastern, Jim Ray wrote:
it is easy to get ripped off in this industry with all the marketing hype
convincing us to pay more for brand xyz because of quality. it is amuzing
to me that the company touting quality purchases the cheap and available
brand that had been taking away market share.
whatever you do, don't squeeze the charmin, though...
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