Agree that Linksys is mostly crap that never works like the manual says it should.
Netgear is OK.
Yes, I'm sure that the reason that Cisco bought Linksys was because they manufacture "mostly crap."
Everyone is using anecdotal evidence for "grading" the quality of these devices. OK, here's my anecdote. I've used a Linksys router at home for nearly 3 years, and this one replaced another linksys. Not because of any problems: I just decided that I wanted wireless capabilities, and since the wireless router was on sale, it was cheaper than just buying a WAP. Oh, and I've had 2 cousins and my step-mother using Linksys routers for a number of years too. And I've recommended Linksys routers for about the last 5 or 6 years (before the last 2 1/2 years) that I worked as a network and systems engineer. Oh, and in the last 2 1/2 years, I've been a network administrator, and we had about 550 remote locations using Linksys routers until we migrated them to a Cisco VPN WAN network.
And did I mention that I haven't had a single problem with any of those Linksys routers?
My guess is that one reason that it seems a lot of people have problems is that Linksys might just sell a whole lot more of those devices than anyone else. Just a guess.
Mark
My guess is that the very same people have issues with Microsoft as well.........
Well, I can’t guess. Because I only have one. I don’t care about a 99% satisfaction rate or anything like that. Mine is the only one I care about. After reading at least 5 dozen negative reviews here:
and here:
http://www.dslreports.com/nsearch?q=befsr41&action=Go
where either folks were happy with it, or they had given up and thrown THIS PARTICULAR MODEL, which is all I can speak to, into the trash out of frustration, I bought another router, plugged it in with NO setup, and it worked and has worked flawlessly since then