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Summary: good buy good product
Review: [...]. the only drawback to this item is that youhave to reboot your cable modem, router and pc at least once a week to maintain a good connection. I havent had any problems with it so far. Setup and install was simple. Good product for great price
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Summary: Excellence through simplicity
Review: Let me preface this review by saying that I'm a professional network engineer. It's my job to put together global networks, using the arcane syntax of Cisco's IOS, or Extreme's CLI.So when I built my home network to support my 3 PCs, work laptop, and my two roomates PCs and Macs, I was looking for a product that was versatile, durable, and reliable. The LinkSys BEFSR41 is all that and more. Set up is a snap. The web tools are fantastic, the guide is extremely well put together. Even flashing the BIOS -- a relatively uncommon, esoteric task by anyone's standards -- had a well thought out, easy to use tool. I've now had this product running for about a year and a half, sitting under my roomate's printer table. It's totally maintenance and headache free. I've used it to telecommute, host a web site, and just plain fool around. I would recommend this as highly to the most descriminating engineer as to the average home user.
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Summary: Worked great - for one year
Review: This worked perfectly until last week (one year later). Now I have 30% packet loss to the internet--but it comes in solid bursts (30-60 seconds at a time of no connectivity). I've tested all other parts of my network, and the linksys is the part that crapped out.
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Summary: Simple way to share internet access
Review: The Linksys 4-Port Cable/DSL Router is, in my mind, the cheapest, easiest way to share your broadband internet connection with your LAN. It serves as a gateway, firewall, and DHCP server, all fully customizable via a standard web browser. Setup is a breeze. Plug in the power jack. Run a standard ethernet cable from your cable/DSL modem into the WAN port, the lights will blink on. Then either hook your computers into any of the 4 jacks on the built-in switch via standard ethernet cables, or just use the uplink jack to hook it into your existing hub/switch. It includes enough documentation to get you up and running, but not much more. I have never had to use customer support on this item, so I can not rate on their reliability. There are several nice features, such as port forwarding (forward specific ports directly to a local IP), or DMZ host, but I would like to see an option to allow a specific WAN (internet) IP to access your LAN without the firewall blocking them. One problem I have noticed is that, when several users are downloading several files (or even just one system downloading many files from a file network), the router will simply stop. Any systems on its switch will stop recieving network traffic, and no internet access will remain to the network. The only way I have found to fix it is to cycle the power. If you want an easy to use, cheap way to share your internet connection, look no further.
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Summary: Complete DHCP Router/Switch
Review: The Linksys BEFSR41 Etherfast 4-Port Cable/DSL Router has everything you need for hooking up four PC's and one printer server. I used to hook up my Internet Cable Modem to my main PC thru network card (#1) and the second network card (#2) went to a Linksys 5-port hub. The hub connected to 3 other PC's. The only problem is that the Main PC had to stay on all the time. I also shared a printer connected thru this PC, which was on all the time. With the Linksys BEFSR41 Etherfast 4-Port Cable/DSL Router and the Linksys EPSX3 EtherFast 10/100 PrintServer3 (3-Port), I can hook it up to the network and any PC can use the printer server or the Internet connection. They are now all independent of one another. I setup each PC for DHCP mode and IPX/SPX Protocol, which can make the PC's visible faster. I have been running the new hookup for around a month now and have no problems.
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Summary: Awesome ease
Review: exceptional router, very easy to install and seems to be real reliable.
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Summary: Easy Setup and works with my 2 VPNs
Review: I have AT&T Broadband (Mediaone). There are 2 of us that work from my home and we connect to our corporate network through a Nortel VPN. I also network 2 other personal pc's to it. Setup was easy. I followed the quick install instructions (didn't use the cd at all). I had to uncheck the proxy that was set in my browser, and then restart the pc, but then it worked just fine on the one pc. Then after restarting, I went into the configuration in the web browser and set the one pc's mac address to my pc's mac address under Advanced, clone. Then I shut down and restarted. Then I logged on the other 3 pcs and it worked instantly. No other reconfiguration required. I then just chatted AT&T and had them remove the $10 networking fee and the other 3 mac addresses! That's it. One thing is, the mac address of the pc you use in the cloning has to be on for the other pcs to work!
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Summary: Router for DSL Internet connection used by multiple machines
Review: This inexpensive router will easily allow multiple machines in your household to share your single DSL internet connection. My ISP required two pieces of software to be installed and I was unwilling to do this. With this router I could connect any "visiting" laptop to my home network w/o installing my ISP's
connection software. Although the setup/configuration screen is easy to use, the naive computer user will need to consult the manual for help when installing. The included "Quick Installation" sheet did not meet my needs.
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Summary: So awesome I had to put up a review!!
Review: Normally I don't do a review of things I buy. But after recently buying this Linksys router, and putting it to use in my home I just have to tell someone about it. I received it the day my cable company was coming to put in my cable modem. At first (as do most guys!!) I just plugged it in and tried to get it to work, no luck! But after regaining some sense I opened the book and read the instructions. Voila, in 5 mins I was zooming along. My wife's MAC G4 was also a breeze to setup, and it's FAST!!! No more having to share the phone line, waiting to use it or having to get kicked off to receive a phone call. I truely recommend getting it, expecially if you are concerned about security, it uses NAT to "hide" your PCs behind a sort of firewall. It also has quite a number of features available to configure, since the one I got was a revision 2 product. So, if you have a number of PCs that need access to the net and you wanna share files with those PC within a private network, get this!!!
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Summary: Almost Too Easy!
Review: What can I say -- I unpacked it, set it up, it worked, and I haven't touched it since! IMPORTANT: Be sure that you change the router's default password! Otherwise, anybody will be able to break into your home network, by using the default ADMIN password. For additional security, I also use the free ZoneAlarm software. Plugging everything in was simple. I've steadily used the product for about 3 months without a failure. I will probably upgrade to their wireless product.
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