That's when I got the USR. I have used USR modems for nearly 15 years, back when 2400 was fast. They have always made outstanding products and this one is no different. Plug'd it in, config'd it and haven't had to mess with it since...the way a router should be.
I too had the same experience with the Indian tech support, an experience I am not too happy about...more US jobs lost.
Rad...
Harry D. Corsover wrote:
On Mar 29, 2004, at 8:23 AM, Rad Craig wrote:
I run a mixed network here as well. I use a US Robotics 802.11g Turbo router. It has 100Mbs capacity, both wired ports and the wireless. Works great. It replaced an SMC Barricade 802.11b router that I had nothing but trouble with.
My SMC Barricade2004 WBR (not sure about the model number) worked fine for a couple of years. When I started having trouble with it and after a couple of weeks off and on with tech support (in India; I had to ask them to repeat themselves several times each time they said something, since I had so much trouble understanding their accent and they tended to talk very fast), SMC said they'd replace the unit.
I had looked at their web site and found their newer SMC2804WBR (802.11g) model, and asked how much they'd charge me to upgrade to that model. They gave it to me for free.
It's worked fine after initial setup. The only thing I had trouble with was setting up WEP. I did it once, then tried again (after finding out that my old clamshell iBook SE 366 could only use the lower-level WEP, while my Aluminum 15" PowerBook G4 could use 128-bit) and couldn't get it to work. I gave up, since we don't have file sharing on and are so far back from the road that security is almost a non-issue (I have the PowerBook's firewall on, and the iBook is used rarely for a few minutes at a time).
Regards,
Harry Corsover
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