Too little too late.

takashimiike 3G edition

And only 4 years after I have stopped supporting the company and all of their products.

Hiphopopotamus

Why? All their stuff lasts for 1 week then craps out!

ramman345

@ps61318: hmm go figure on that, I forgot netgear as well too, thanks for the reminder. I guess I liked d-link because of Canadian Mac friendly tech support. Helped me out because I didnt have my clients calling me for simple questions because they couldnt understand Amarjit in Delhi tech support.

BTW if you want industrial SonicWall ftw!!

Canuck.Viking

I had to call Linksys tech support a couple of years ago and the person on the other end of the phone was simply baffled by the fact that I didn't have a 'My Computer' icon on my desktop. I had to explain to him several times that I am using a Mac and that they don't have that icon. I finally gave up and figured my problem out myself. I have since bought a Time Capsule and am in love.

PollockRoc

@Canuck.Viking: I have never had good success with d-link. Go figure. I've had better luck with linksys, but just barely.

Netgear has had some good models in my humble experience, but if someone has even more money, they should go with something industrial strength - even for home use. IF they have the bucks.

ps61318

@Canuck.Viking: will someone tell me why the comment system is so f*d up on all gawker sites!!

Canuck.Viking

@Hiphopopotamus: exactly... but I never recommended my clients buy Linksys in the first place ;) Plus whenever I went onsite and saw Linksys, it was strongly recommended that they remove that and replace with d-link or apple routers

@Leonard Nimrod: no but this is good for those people that leave their network wide open with the SSID default, and arent knowledgeable enough to set up properly.

@OneAngryDwarf: I couldn't agree more (except for the Apple Gear, because I am a bit of a fanboy and their stuff works so well :D )

Canuck.Viking

@Hiphopopotamus: exactly... but I never recommended my clients buy Linksys in the first place ;) Plus whenever I went onsite and saw Linksys, it was strongly recommended that they remove that and replace with d-link or apple routers

Canuck.Viking

Darn it Linksys, fix your RVL200 SSL VPN java client so it works under OS X!!!

pipper

A router should never require software anyway. Makes me want a Linksys even less which I hadn't realized was possible.

OneAngryDwarf

Was I missing something by only using the web interface to configure my routers?

Leonard Nimrod

Jesus Christ, people use that thing?

matto

Linksys.. Good times.

SuperCollider

Too late. Way, way too late.

I used to exclusively purchase Linsys products. But as I made the switch to the Mac about 5 years ago, I suffered the set-up process for about 12 months.

But 4 years ago, I bought a $350 switch for my home network. No Mac support, but that's not what did me in.

It was the call center in India I had to call to get support that caused me to stop buying Linksys.

55 minutes on the phone, put on hold while the guy took other calls, not understanding him, terrible advice.

I returned the Linksys router, bought an Airport Extreme. Sure, the Airport was more expensive--a lot more expensive--but my time is valuable, and not having to deal with call centers in India is worth at least 100 bucks.

Sure, linksys probably doesn't care about my personal business.

Problem is I make purchase decisions for my company. This business I know Cisco/Linksys cares about.

And unfortunately for them, the personal experience turned an "always buy Linksys/Cisco products" into a person who explored alternatives and no longer buys any products from them. They are no longer a vendor to my employer, and we've saved a ton of money on alternatives.

B. Whaler

A router wizard? LOL

tehronin

@Canuck.Viking: You know, at the risk of side-tracking this topic, I've got the latest Apple Airport Express, and it's NOT rock-solid. Latest firmware and what-not, and it hangs every couple of days, overnight. I've had Linksys hardware that did better than that for a few years.

Harlan

@pipper: They were supposed to be fixing it by June....

But hey, the month is not over yet.

Jrsy

"I returned the Linksys router, bought an Airport Extreme. Sure, the Airport was more expensive--a lot more expensive--but my time is valuable, and not having to deal with call centers in India is worth at least 100 bucks."

Same here except substitute Netgear for Linksys.

Wizards are so PC 90s.

soulfinger

Linksys does a pretty good job with the "install this before anything else or you will die a horribly slow and painful death"

obviously every windows user I have supported followed blindly when unboxing it, I'm fairly certain Mac users will do the same

I don't get why linksys just prints out a 6 step procedure for setting up a basic secured network...

1. Plug everything in (power, WAN, Ethernet)
2. with 1 computer plugged into ethernet->192.168.1.1
3. login with no username and admin as password
4. Go through and change login/password for router, name router, either disable/enable SSID, and change channel in future if signal strength is degraded/interfered with
5. Set WPA2 passkey that's long but easy to remember personally
6. Exit and you're done

I should copyright that shit...

discounteggroll

@Barcard: Mixed bag, for sure. I have had some success with Belkin, and the price is certainly highly competitive, usually. But I have had some reliability issues, and they don't seem to stay on top of their stuff with updates and the like. The former is more a cause for concern to me, by the way.

Bottom line for me: average slightly above on total value.

ps61318

I've used a Belkin wifi router for the past two years with my Mac and my wife's Windows XP and have had no problems with it. Anyone else have comments on the relative worth of Belkin products?

Barcard

@discounteggroll: Why, I think they call that the "Instructions." -(:-{D}

May be that it's copyrighted already, bro. Sorry.

Oh, and if you're not a "bro" but perhaps a "sister", then sorry again.

ps61318

Apple-friendly, eh? I wonder if it also supports NAT-PMP?

macserv

Apple-friendly? I never gave a rats ass about it, but real nerds set it up via HTTP interface. That's generally compatible with more than one operating system....

peterfnet