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Summary: Does it all!!
Review: This is a great tool for a reasonable price. Configuration is easy and after running it for over 2 months, I can say I haven't had 1 problem with it. One cool feature is the port forwarding feature. If you're looking for a way to share your broadband connection this is the way to go.
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Summary: Don't buy this router if you run a game server
Review: My title pretty much says it all. The router works well for networking your comps and sharing an internet connection, but it fails at running online game servers, particularly Half-Life, which is what I primarily bought it for. It even says so in the manual after you buy it. Mine is going back.
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Summary: Cool product, Lousy support
Review: This is a *very* cool unit, but good luck if you need any technical support. My Linksys arrived from Amazon yesterday, and although the simple things were easy to configure, I have a slightly more complicated question for technical support. I spent 20 minutes on hold on day-1, with my call answered by an "operator". No call back, so I tried again on day-2. 2.5 *HOURS* on hold, then finally another "operator", who promised a priority response. 7 hours later I tried again, with a promise for a call back within 30 minutes. Guess what, it's been another 2 hours. Apparently the big sticker on the box which advertises "24x7 Support!" is the amount of time it takes to get a human.
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Summary: PPPoE people....have no fear of this product.
Review: I just purchased this after having trouble with software based firewalls. let me tell you, this product is money well spent. i have an earthlink dsl account, and after reading about the troubles with PPoE, i was a bit hesitant. no longer...after speaking with Linksys on intial setup, they now have me running without that annoying DSL/PPPoE login. I couldn't have imagined an easier setup. Kudos to Linksys and their customer support.
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Summary: Set-up three already
Review: I have set-up three of these routers... One at mt church, my house and my buddy's house. The set-up is really easy mostly plug in and play for my cable providers network. Couldnt be easier. I was going to buy a cisco router for the church to handle the cable modem and I saved alot of money by getting this one. I highly recommend it for anyone with a broadband connection to the internet and more then 2 computers to share it.
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Summary: Step-by-Step for Cox @Home
Review: 5 minutes to hook up and about 90 to get working. On the set-up page (DHCP), change the starting IP address to 192.168.1.2 (why it defaults to .100 is a mystery). I have COX cable and set my Linky and computer as follows:Linky: Host Name: cxXXXXXX-x (your Cox machine address) Domain Name: @home Firmware Version: 1.36 Oct 05 2000 LAN IP Address: 192.168.1.1 Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0 Specify an IP Address: On your Cox paperwork (IP ADDR:) Default Gateway: Should be on your Cox paperwork DNS: See below Leave the rest alone. MSIE (Tools>Internet Options): Dial-up settings: I have none LAN Settings: Nothing checked (no proxy, nothing) Network: Client for MS Networks Linksys LNE 100TX (whatever your NIC is) TCP/IP That's it...No bindings in the config tab, but the NIC is bound to TCP/IP and TCP/IP is bound to Client for MS Networks (properties bindings). If you lost your paperwork or need the DNS IPs, go to the Cox@Home homepage, then Member Services>Home Networking>Additional IP Addresses>log in here>View current addresses>Manual Configuration (at the bottom of the page). This will give you all the info you need. You may want to keep your proxy server enabled. I've gotten a lot better speed here in NW Florida with it turned off. Assuming Cox uses pretty much the same rules throughout the country, this should work for you. If not, I hope you wrote down all of your old settings and remember how to get to them. Oh, and before you start, RTFM...especially the part about pinging your ISP in the appendix. You HAVE to do this to get the right addresses for your mail (and don't forget to ping "news" if you use NNTP). You need to do this BEFORE you connect the router. I'll *try* to answer questions sent to the above e-mail (rums_n_cokes@yahoo.com), but my time is limited. Read through this and make an attempt. You can let me know if it helped.
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Summary: Amazing product!
Review: I love this router! I've been online since the days of acoustic couplers and alligator clips, and now I have a cable modem connection in my home -- for business as well as pleasure, as I telecommute. Trying to keep my kids off my work computer has been a challenge -- they like the high-speed connection, and I don't blame them. I bought this router to see if it would solve the problem. I have a desktop PC, a laptop PC and two iMacs. Using the "quick start" directions, I set this router up and plugged everything in. Amazingly, after enabling TCP/IP on the iMacs, everything worked perfectly...first time! The laptop has a USB>ethernet connecter rather than a straight ethernet card, and even *that* machine worked well, with minimal fiddling around. I'm thrilled, the kids are thrilled... Worth every dime...! I was ready to pay someone to come out to the house and run cable.
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Summary: A good idea for networking small/home offices
Review: I bought this to link up my wife's home office. We both have laptops and we share a printer (see the linksys network print sharing device). I bought it on the recommendation of a co-worker who is a network engineer. I was up and running in 15 minutes. I also managed to misplace the documentation which familiarized me with their web-site. They have well organized information and technical support as well as good downloads. For the less technical, the instructions are clear and there is relatively little to do. Also, it proctects the computer attached to the cable modem from being visible on the internet. All of the options can be set through a web-enabled interface. For the more techical, the box includes a lot of features. My two favorites are 1) a DHCP server meaning that my wife and I can move our laptops from client site to home office without bothering with network setting and 2) software that prevents your computer from being visible outside of the local network. There are a number of advanced features that would allow you host a web or email server behind the device, but I have not bother to use them. In short, this device has sold me on LinkSys - the combine excelent feature set, easy installation and good prices.
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Summary: Disappointed
Review: I am a professional programmer, I spend my days writing code and watching it run on the network or on the web and I have spent a lot of time trouble shooting application problems. I thought at the very least this would only take me an hour or so. So,I went to the expense of having my home wired with Cat 5 cable and was surfing the net, using a WebRamp router to connect our 3 PCs, a printer and use 1 ISP account using a built in 56k modem(on the WebRamp router). I was watching the price of DSL come down and decided to splurge and order a Linksys DSL router(BEFSR41) and call our local Phone company to start the journey to DSL. I did some searching online and found the best deal for the Linksys router at Amazon. This was $30.00 cheaper than any place I found. I setup the appointment with the Phone company and took the day off so I could configure the router and get my high speed DSL hook up working. When the day finally arrived for the installation of the DSL line(the Phone company guys arrived at 10:00am). The Phone company showed up and did their testing of the line and hooked up the DSL model. I pluged in the Linksys router and it powered up. But I could not get it out of diagnostic mode. I called Linksys Support line, after 15 minutes of listening to Music I finally talked to "Person" who informed me that he would document my problem and someone would call me back in 2-3 hours. I told him that I needed help now and told him the problem, he consulted with another Support person and told me the problem was the a bad circuit board. I should return this one and get a new one. Well the phone company was done and I had 1 PC that could recieve email and surf the net. Not a good situation. So I sent the router back to Amazon and went to Best Buy to get another Linksys router... This one did connect but I spent another hour with Linksys Tech support, we could not get it to recognize the DHCP server. The Tech Support person had me download a firmware patch. (I did not mention that I had to disconnect and reconnect the router, fix my DSL hookup - another story). Once I got the firmware patch, I reconnected my router and and powered up the 1st PC. Finally I got the correct network settings, subnet mask, DHCP router settings, etc. It only took 10 minutes to get the first PC out on the internet. It took me about another 15 minutes to connect the next 2 PCs. I started around 10:00 am on a Friday and finised up with all the PCs around 7:30 that night. I have to admit that I would never go back to a 56k modem again. But... be ready to spend some time working around problems.
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Summary: Works great w/ Win98,95 and @home cable
Review: Setup instructions are easy to follow. If you are really a beginning level computer user it may be difficult. If you have some computer hardware experience things work like a breeze. I have it hooked up with two win98 computer and one win 95 computer using athome cable modem service. It works flawlessly most of the time. My only compliant is that the power source makes a high pitched squeeling noise after being in use for extended periods. You need to unplug it to get rid of the high pitched noise. The internet cable service told me that I would need to purchase extra IP addresses. This thing will work without them. Isn't that the point of using the router??? Don't listen to them if they tell you to pay extra money for extra computers hooked up to the modem. The router does the job for you.
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