Note to self: don't buy any more Linksys routers.

I bought a couple of the cisco/linksys routers after the merger. They were shiat. The wireless will randomly stop working, or the whole thing will simply hang. Never buying a cisco product again.

/the old linksys stuff was great.

//Cisco business class routers/firewall/switches are overpriced garbage too.

Dinki: I bought a couple of the cisco/linksys routers after the merger. They were shiat. The wireless will randomly stop working, or the whole thing will simply hang. Never buying a cisco product again.

/the old linksys stuff was great.

//Cisco business class routers/firewall/switches are overpriced garbage too.

I've had a Linksys WRT54GL running Tomato for 4 years now. Works great.

The OS that comes preloaded is crap.

Dinki: I bought a couple of the cisco/linksys routers after the merger. They were shiat. The wireless will randomly stop working, or the whole thing will simply hang. Never buying a cisco product again.

/the old linksys stuff was great.

//Cisco business class routers/firewall/switches are overpriced garbage too.

Really?

Been managing Cisco devices for 15 years, also worked on HP, Linksys (pre and post Cisco), Juniper, and Avaya.

Cisco is the most reliable for LAN and enterprise I've ever seen, with the most features for administration, management and monitoring.

Overpriced? Agree.

Garbage? Do not agree.

Belkin is garbage. Never managed one that worked right.

Generation_D: the Connect Cloud service came with a supplemental privacy policy that explicitly allowed Cisco to peek at a user's "internet history," "traffic" and "other related information." If Cisco discovered you had used your router for "pornographic or offensive purposes" or to violate "intellectual property rights," it reserved the right to shut down your cloud account and effectively cut you off from your router.

If this is true, never buying Cisco for home or office again.

Cutting users off from porn? This does not bode well for Cisco.

Generation_D: Cisco apparently never read Routergod. Or believes that a network at home is sort of like a privacy boundary

I have a feeling that the article could be exaggerating. A router should be able to act as a standalone device, like hosting a private LAN. If Cisco decentralizes administrative access of the router onto the Internet, how would administrating a private network even be possible?

Lor M. Ipsum: Generation_D: Cisco apparently never read Routergod. Or believes that a network at home is sort of like a privacy boundary

I have a feeling that the article could be exaggerating. A router should be able to act as a standalone device, like hosting a private LAN. If Cisco decentralizes administrative access of the router onto the Internet, how would administrating a private network even be possible?

CIsco's official response:Link

Engadget article could be misleading. More to come I'm sure.

/slashies

I have an e3000. Generally, it works fine. The one problem I have, and it's a fairly big one, is that I can either log into the router directly, or use their desktop application to adjust the settings. Neither option gives you full control, though. You have to use the desktop app if you want to use their "guest" feature. It's a pretty nice feature; I could give people who visit my house an easy password, they log in as "guest", and all they have is internet access. However, using the desktop app drastically limits to control you have over the router, you have no ability to set up port forwarding, wifi blacklists or whitelists, etc.

If I log into the router directly, I cannot use the desktop app, and therefore not the "guest" feature. The "guest" SSID is still broadcast (with no way to turn it off), but I cannot set a password, because you'd have to use the desktop app to do that...and as soon as you open the app, it resets all the routers settings to default.

make me some tea: I've had a Linksys WRT54GL running Tomato for 4 years now. Works great.

The OS that comes preloaded is crap.

There's a few good alternatives if you have a Linksys WRT model. I haven't tried Tomato but I've been using DD-WRT.

This is why God made DD-WRT. I find it funny that companies like Cisco, with tons of money, total knowledge of the product, and expertise for this sort of thing, still crank out firmware that's absolute crap compared to what some guys put together in their spare time.

My WRT-320N has been running virtually flawlessly since I got it, and flashing it with DD-WRT was the first thing I did.

slayer199: There's a few good alternatives if you have a Linksys WRT model. I haven't tried Tomato but I've been using DD-WRT.

My only regret with DD-WRT is that I didn't flash it to my WRT router sooner. I freaking love DD-WRT.

(You mean I can finally do port forwarding and static IP based on MAC address from the router? yippee!)

nvmac: Been managing Cisco devices for 15 years, also worked on HP, Linksys (pre and post Cisco), Juniper, and Avaya.

Cisco is the most reliable for LAN and enterprise I've ever seen, with the most features for administration, management and monitoring.

Overpriced? Agree.

Garbage? Do not agree.

Belkin is garbage. Never managed one that worked right.

"Linksys by Cisco" ≠ "Cisco business-grade gear"

just like "iomega by EMC" ≠ "Symmetrix."

Well, now that I can't buy new Linksys routers, even though I used them for over a decade, any suggestions by the Fark community? Netgear?

Gig103: Well, now that I can't buy new Linksys routers, even though I used them for over a decade, any suggestions by the Fark community? Netgear?

Been years since I used one, but it was fine back in the day. Beware the netgear chipsets are not generally supported by the alternate router firmware like dd-wrt.

You BASTARD.

/thong tha tha tha thong.

Gig103: Well, now that I can't buy new Linksys routers, even though I used them for over a decade, any suggestions by the Fark community? Netgear?

I use a Buffalo device (I'm not near it, so I don't know the model). Put DD-WRT on it. Very nice little unit.

Or you could go the whole-nine-yards and build a Free BSD box to act as a router.

YodaBlues: Ooo, how's the wireless bridging work on DD-WRT? Fairly stable? Does it work with DHCP? I'm running Tomato with a wireless bridge from my living room (xbox/tv/media pc) to my FIOS router in the office. Works great, the only problem is it only seems to work with WEP, not WPA2. Not a huge deal, don't have many neighbors I'm worried about, but it would be nice to be a little bit more secure. I tried the same setup with DD-WRT a few years ago, and I could never get the wireless bridge to forward DHCP properly, so I'd have to manually set all my IP addresses. Not a big deal, but I just don't care that much to manually setup all my devices in the living room,

I've had it going for a few weeks between a linksys running dd-wrt and a morotola cable modem/wireless router combo running motorola firmware. WPA2/AES. No hitches, just works.

FWIW, the Motorola has been as solid as any consumer network device I've had with the default firmware. Pretty configurable (port forwarding, guest network, etc). interface is ugly as sin, but I log in like 3 times a year, and it's clear enough where to go. It's almost like motorola's focusing their development on things that matter.

make me some tea: Note to self: don't buy any more Linksys routers.

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zarberg: Ok, try not to be too judgemental, but I bought an Apple Airport Extreme and I absolutely love it. It's got 2 USB ports, one I've plugged a 2 TB hard drive into that I can access from any machine on my network and the other has a printer that is automatically networked. Setting up port forwarding is nice and easy.

That being said, I'm never buying an Apple product again, as I've had 2 of their laptops die within months of the 3 year Applecare Extended plan ending. Probably going Alienware next time out.

I used to buy Airport Expresses. I have one for travel purposes for the odd hotel without Wireless service. But I don't really like them. They overheat like a biatch and you can't configure them with a web browser. I tried running two Expresses in bridge mode and I've come to the conclusion that I'd rather punch myself in the dick than do that again.