ok I called linksys the lady had me go through 30 or so minutes of tests i'm like lady i've done all this stuff but i said it politely and anyhow after all that time she said well please tell me the date on your purchase ticket i said haha its like a year old i doubt i have it just laying here i'll have to look around and she goes ok well thank you for calling linksys anything else i can help you with today?

i said so that means i'm sol that my wan port broke for no reason and all i get is that

she said sorry need proof please go buy a new one sir.

so i dont think i gonna get a linksys but i not sure

any ideas on who i should get? thanks

I was looking at a router at circuit city from siemens (I'm pretty sure it was siemens) and it looked a bit better than the linksys routers they had. Just a few dollars more too:)

I've only used a linksys @ my house, i like the controle panel it has all straight forward and nothing hard about it :D would the siemens router be like that too i'm assuming and just making sure?

I am considering a linksys router also. What was the problem you had with it ZD?

lan would still work but the wan (internet part ) of it just quit working and its not my cable because i hook it straight to my pc and im online like right now :D but i hookupthe router i can ping it, ping other pcs locally but not a damn thing outside this network :(

The siemens router did have a browser based cp, although I never used it so I can't compare it to the inksys one. Of course if you buy it at circuit city you can take it back if its not what you like. Wow, I should work there haha.

I've installed about a half dozen Netgear cable/dsl routers and have been pretty pleased with them. They were all very easy to set up and I haven't heard any complaints from the people that I installed them for.

Richard

i've had no problems at all using my 2 d-link and 1 usr home gateways for almost 2 years. and they're like, $50 now or something.

I currently have a SMC Wireless Router with a built in printserver. Its the best router I have used. Before I was using a linksys router which is OK compared to the smc with the SMC I have a print server which anybody in the house can use, Wireless router which allows me to go to outside and still be online :D and of course the normal 10/100 switch to transfer files from one machine to the other on the network :cartman:

I hope this helps.

My linksys calfed too ( but i have it under warranty thank G*d)

I looked at Dlink...and netgear....depending on what you want to do with the router, one of these should do the trick

D-link has network printer port, but no Mac cloning.

Netgear has mac cloning..


Prices are around the same as Linksys ( here in canada anyway)

I have been using a ZyXEL P314 for quite a while with no problems to mention and a fairly easy setup (not really a good manual included though). It has a web-based control panel and you can also telnet in for more advanced configurations. I haven't had to use their tech support, so I cannot really comment on that.

I have had no problems with my Netgear Cable/DSL router here at home. It also has a web based configuration interface as well as telnet. Support is flaky at best, but their online knowledgebase answered all of my questions.

Eh, how about buy an old 486 and setup BSD on it to do your routing? :)

I have an El-Cheapo D-Link Router (Model# di-604), it costed me $29 at bestbuy.com, has 4 ports. Does a great job, never had any problems yet.

I have a linksys router and a hub no problems here yet.....:stickout

I have a Linksys 4 port hub/router/print server/wireless ap. I haven't had a problem (with the router. the ISP is completely different in that respect). I love it. :) Except... I really don't like the color. Heh heh.

- James

i'm going to quakecon linksys will be selling stuff there i may just take my router with me tell them its a pos and ask them to give me at least some credit for it. heh

either way i'll get another soon ;)

thanks for advice looks like netgear or linksys again :)

I have a Netgear router, and worked fine the whole time I used it. I also find Netgear's support pretty good. Since I'm on dialup now, all the router does now is assign LAN IP's. The RT311 (the one I have) has a web based admin cp, but most of the work can be done by telent. In case if you screw it up, you can FTP into it and replace the file that holds the port mapping, and that stuff.

Oh, I dont like the way the linksys routers work. I like being able to stack my equipment where it belongs ;) .

Just my 2 cents...

:D I've had my SMC 7004BR, with built in print server, for almost 2 years...still going strong. Can be had on EBAY for about 50 bucks.

Dont waste your money on a router....
www.bbiagent.net
www.zelow.no/floppyfw/

or if none of those match your tastes heres 17 others:
http://freshmeat.net/search/?q=floppy+router&section=projects

about a month ago Office Depot had a deal on a 4 port cable/dsl router with print server for about 40.00 and it was easy to setup, I was able to clone the mac address for comcast and had no problems.

I have a linksys at home the dlink was for someone else and they haven't called me back with any problems so.

We had an SMC Barricade for a while (about 6 of them in a two month period) and they'd blow up if a stiff breeze turned up. Seriously- you could count on them getting fried everytime we had a thunderstorm. We ran surge protection on them, but no go. Finally went to a Linksys and no problems since.

:o Well, sounds like you had bad luck. All my hardware is on an UPS, so no worries about surges:cool:

I've been using a Linksys 4 port router for about two years at home and I've had not problems with it. It works great. When I bought mine, I paid almost $200 US, now they are down to about $80.00 US

yep... the prices on routers are coming down.

I'm using a d-link with built-in wireless. It works reasonably well. I tried configuring it before I plugged it into my cable modem, but it was incredibly unstable (would stop working and once even required a reset via the serial port, though it is prety cool that the thing even has a serial port).

Since I plugged my cable modem into the router it has been working like a charm. All of the instability that I was seeing it when I was just using it as a dhcp server/switch on my LAN has disappeared.

-joe

Hi,

Before I buy, I always go to practicallynetworked.com and read their reviews and the posted opinions of those who own the models they review here:

http://www.practicallynetworked.com/list.asp?p=1

I recently bought a new 8 port Netgear RO318 gateway router/firewall. It has a statefull packet inspection firewall instead of a NAT firewall. Has been working great for me on my cable modem setup. Cost me around $180 retail a while back.

If I wanted to stay around a hundred dollars, I would go with the Netgear RP114. The user reviews of folks who own this model are very positive at practicallynetworked.com.

Two things have helped me when I've had problems getting the machines on my home lan to connect to the internet through the router:

The first is to set up the gateway/router to "spoof" one of your computer's network card MAC address to the cable modem. Read the manual for your router if you want to find out more.

The second is to use a crossover cable instead of a regular ethernet cable between the router and the cable modem.


Hope the above helps.


Best wishes,

Louis

Dlink or SonicWall for more security.

Cisco is my first choice...
After that it is just software stuff like
fresco.org or linux router project..
amar