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Summary: Excellent purchase
Review: I bought this product because our cable man recommended it. I live with two other guys and we have a total of 5 computers hooked up to the internet through a cable modem this router and a 12 port hub. This unit was extremely easy to set up and has been running without a hitch for 4 straight months. We turn the router off at night and it does not lose its settings or need to be reconfigured. It has a firewall built in and that is all the protection we use. I don't think we have had any intruders, but I am not 100% certain. This is also a great price. We looked other places and in stores this router goes for near $. GET IT!
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Summary: Best Consumer line of routers on the market today!
Review: This is without a doubt one of the best purchases I have ever made. I mean it. This device is everything it is advertised to be and more.I had a ADSL line installed into my home in August. Since that time I have attempted to get multi-computer access to the Internet via a multitude of methods. I have attempted to setup a proxy server. This method works but was difficult to setup and never seemed to work with all Internet based services. I also spent 2 months trying to get a Cisco 675 router to work with ZERO success. My frustration level continued to grow and I ordered the Linksys BEFSR11 out of desperation. The Linksys unit worked right out of the box, almost literally. It took me only an hour from unboxing to having multiple PC's on the Internet. The majority of the time was spent researching my DSL providers PPOE settings. I have the modem running to the router and then running with a regular category 5 cable to a dumb hub and then each PC is connected to the hub. The router assigns valid Internet IP's to each PC and all my interne applications work great. Napster, ICQ, Newsgroups, and IRC all work wonderfully. Another great side affect of going to the router is that my overall access speed is about twenty percent faster then it was connecting directly from the computer to the modem. This is a wonderful device and I have recommended it to all my friends and family who are know entering the broadband world via cable or DSL. Thanks Linksys!
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Summary: Excellent, once connected
Review: Just got my DSL Router setup properly and running. It took about three calls to technical support to get the information that I needed to get it operational. The first couple of calls told me that I couldn't do what I was trying to do. I told them that it is being done so what's the problem. They finally concluded that I had something wrong with my box. After playing around and talking to a knowledgeable technician I am up and running and so is the other computer on the network. Now that I am running it is as was advertised. I knocked a star of the rating do to the multiple calls to technical support. I do laud them for being one of the few suppliers open 24/7.
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Summary: Good enough for my home network
Review: The one-port variety means you have to have a separate hub, but I prefer keeping things modular so if one piece breaks you only have to replace that one piece. Some of the other brands offer more functionality like a print server, that some people may need. I just care about the built in DHCP server and firewall.
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Summary: Gamers go elsewhere, otherwise ok
Review: For simple LAN use this is the perfect choice, great configuration options as far as DHCP and DMZ, however, what is not openly admitted is that this is not a true 100mbps router. Your uplink port, (where you dsl/cable modem) hooks up is limited to 10mbps, so regardless of the fact that your hub/switch is 100mbps, from internet to the pcs is 10mbps, translation, you just got slowed down from your normal capabilities. Especially if you have your cable modem tweaked to where it runs 8-10 times faster than normal, you will want to throw this in the trash first time you use internet/LAN communications for games.
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Summary: Way Cool!
Review: Pretty darn close to being plug and play! Set your computer to DHCP, use your browser to configure a couple of parameters provided by your ISP, and you are off and running. Can be the DHCP server for 50 computers and a firewall.
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Summary: If Time = Money, I'm rollin' in dough
Review: I've been working in IT/Computing for almost 10 years and a total of perhaps 1000 hours over the last 2 years have been wasted trying to get my SOHO systems working; hubs, dsl modem, proxy, firewall, user accounts. I knew from past experience, that this is complicated stuff, and the herculean efforts I gave were par for the course. And then...there came LINKSYS, and I'm cashing-in the free-time! BEFORE LINKSYS: - hours of screwing around with Wingate - hours of getting WinGate & ZoneAlarm to cooperate - "wires, Wires, WIRES!" - OS Networking/TCP-IP configurations - PCAnywhere required hours of WinGate configuration - RealAudio client worked, didn't work, worked, didn't work - PPPoE...forget it! AFTER LINKSYS: - 5 minutes installation - everything works - no more screwing around with anything NOTES: - upgrade firmware before doing anything else in the config I am an extremely satisfied and pleased customer! Keep the upgrades comin' - this thing is great!
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Summary: Works great and I have no idea what I'm doing
Review: I bought the DSL Router on the suggestion of the local computer company that sold me my computers. I know nothing about networks. I was told by the local cable internet provider that I could only support 3 computers simultaneously on my cable line at one time. If I wanted 5 computers hooked up simultaneously and I did, I needed to pay for 2 separate cable lines plus 3 additional IP addresses. This is because they said they could only support 3 computers per line. This would be about $95 per month. The local computer company guys told me I could use this DSL router to create my own IP addresses. All I needed was a hub that would support all 5 computers and a network card in each computer. I would need the hub and the network cards anyway for the cable connection, so this only cost me about $100 more to reduce my cable cost from $95/month to $40/month. This is a $55/month saving. On top of that I have a hard firewall and it is 100% legit. This I checked out. As my family is hard core gamers (Everquest mostly) and my daughter and I surf the net, it is not unusual for us to have all 5 computers on at once. We have not noticed any degradation in our connection. Three of the computers are on Everquest most of the time. As for hooking it up, I found the instructions to be a bit sparse, but complete (in retrospect) for what I was trying to do. I routed my cable connector directly to the DSL box and then the DSL box to the hub and the hub to the individual computers. Routing to the individual computers was the hard part. This was only because of the location of the computers and the fact I live in a center-split house. When it was time to enable it, I did need help. However, I called the local computer company that sold it to me, for assistance. I can't speak for Linksys support. But, the things I had to change were pretty easy. If you try and change the input port location on the hub and corresponding switch orientation on the DSL router you should be able to get it right, by process of elimination. There are only 2 of each. This is really all I had to do to resolve the problem I had. For usage, since we have had it up and running for about 1-1/2 months now, we ocassionally crash it. I wish I could say why, but I think it is due to a loose connection. In this case we turn off all the computers and reboot the DSL box, by turning off power to it. It has fixed it every time. The reset does not seem to fix this problem. If I was more knowledgible, I could tell you why. I can't speak for the firewall, as I have no clue how it works. All in all, this was a very good investment.
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Summary: Read the back of the manual first
Review: It was easy enough to get this to work after I read an entry in the appendix. It would be good to read all instructions before starting rather than try to go step by step from the front. I had to remove the router and connect directly to the cable provider to get the information described in the appendix. The upgrade operation is easy enough. Be make hard copies of all your settings before you do. Everything goes back to the defaults when you upgrade the firmware
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Summary: works great with @home
Review: returned my netgear and bought the linksys, worked on the first try, using dhcp, the 1.36 firmware, did not allow port forwarding, so i backed it down to 1.34 and it port forwards just fine, tech support was helpful as well, and did not have to wait 2 hours to get hung up on
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