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Summary: Product Suffers From Lock-Up Using PPPoE
Review: This DSL router is Unreliable.While the price makes this unit attractive, it suffers from a nagging problem of locking up with the only remedy being a power-cycle on both DSL modem and the LinkSys. My ISP/Telco is Earthlink/GTE in So Cal and they use PPPoE for dynamic IP assignment. Tried the unit with both Win 98 and Linux and lockup occurs with both. Have used all existing firmware versions upto 1.33 Beta (as of 02 Aug) and none seem to fix this problem. Give it a single star just because the potential exists for them to fix this problem with future firware upgrades. I just do not wish to wait any further.
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Summary: Easy Setup! Great For DSL
Review: After I got DSL I ordered this and it was VERY easy to setup. The web configuration is awesome and intuitive. I had an existing hub to connect this to so that the setup even quicker. The only snag that caused an issue was that the manual says to use a crossover cable to connect the Router to a hub and that didn't work for me. I ended up using a regular Cat 5 ethernet cable.
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Summary: Best out of box...
Review: I bought one of these to serve my home DSL (2 1.54 lines). I do hosting off of my home service, and frankly, though my linux box does just about everything I could ask of it, I just didn't want to deal with running yet another service on it. So I bought one of these puppies. It took literally minutes to get out, set up, and configure the DMZ (DMZ= Demilitarized Zone= NOT behind a firewall -- so a web server can have everything but port 80 hidden behind a firewall, but still serve). This thing rules. A 6 year old could set it up. Good stuff. If you think you have a need for something like this, buy this one. Someone told me that if you are running a large number of gaming machines behgind one of these, it can lag, but I have not experienced any network latency. Good luck! biolight
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Summary: Really The Easiest Solution for Home Nets and Cable Modems
Review: This was by far the easiest solution to putting my home network onto the net.
From box to up and running took all of about 15 minutes. The only thing your likely to forget is to cycle your cable modems power so it can grab the MAC address off of the router. Some may have to call thier cable modem vendor to change thier MAC address. My interest was not to necessarily to add another PC on the net, but to protect my internal infrastructure from the outside world and allow me to utilize TCP/IP for my internal protocol, along with file sharing. If you don;t already have a hub, grab the big brother version of this, which includeds four ports. This thing does the trick.
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Summary: Great for cable modem users
Review: I bought the unit from Amazon.com, and had it installed in about 1/2 hour. Do watch out, though, they don't send along a network (10BaseT) cable with the unit. Other then that, it works great, does just what it's advertised to do, and came up very smooth.
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Summary: Great for DSL users on a budget
Review: I have a small home network (8 PCs) and needed an economical internet sharing solution. I had been using an NT machine running Wingate and ZoneAlarm. However, running a separate box as a router/firewall was tying up the machine and Wingate has a few quirks. I decided to try the Linksys and haven't regretted it. I had the product installed and working in 15 minutes. I have a separate DHCP server and didn't have any problems. Reportedly, the unit corrupts large downloads, but the latest version of the firmware seems to have fixed the problem. I downloaded several large PowerPoint files with no problem. All in all, a great little box.
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Summary: The simplest NAT box ever.
Review: If you want a quick and easy NAT solution this is it. Had the thing up and going in about 3 minutes. Connected it to the cable modem and my hub and away I went. The hardest part was releasing my previous IP address. I've tried all kinds of sofware solutions as well as Linux and this is it. Not quite as fun to set up as a Linux box but a heck of a lot quicker.
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Summary: Piece of garbage
Review: This router is a piece of garbage. I've known several people who have these (or the 4 port version) and they all have problems with it locking up, and there is no way to fix it besides pulling the plug. There ought to be a class action lawsuit against Linksys for making a product this poor - there is simply no excuse. Didn't they do any testing at all before releasing it to the public???
Their ethernet cards are total garbage too - they cause your computer to spontaneously reboot under heavy network traffic. Do yourself a favour, and don't buy Linksys.
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Summary: Easy to use router/gateway
Review: Strengths:
Price. Reliability. Ease of use/installation.
Weaknesses:
No command-line interface. Summary:
I bought the Linksys versus any other brand of DSL/cable router both for it's past performance as well as for the price. This is actually the second one of these I've purchased. I installed the first in my home network and then purchased an additional one for my brother. The router has performed well and yet to have an issue. I still install a software firewall behind the router on each of my workstations as the NAT that the router performs is still not enough to block eberything out.
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Summary: Overpriced and not very useful
Review: 1. For the same money or less, you can get a linksys 4-port wired router, with built-in switch. The router being sold by Amazon one port, and has to be connected to an external switch if you want to connect more than one computer (a hub would work, but not nearly as well). If you're only running one computer, just run cat 5e cable from the cable or dsl modem directly to your computer's pci or usb adaptor. 2. The single star rating is for value received, not for the quality of the router itself. Linksys makes good networking gear. Whoever wrote that this router can connect all your pc's, without reference to needing an external switch needs to go back to school.
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