It's true. I think the Cisco take over of Linksys adversely impacted the quality of the products. Cisco tends to offer products that don't offer wire rate speeds and end up having some forwarding rate that's a fraction of the available bandwidth. Cheap processors and bad code. The devices, especially older vintage do well with 3rd party firmware that allows you to undo a lot of their limitations. For example, using a wrt54G and tomato or dd-wrt firmware you can boost the radio output greatly, increase the clock rate, impliment working QOS, and in general undoa lot of the problems you run in to with a stock unit. D-Link had one code rev with capcha enabled and that negatively impacted the perception of their gear in our circles. To bad too because I and a few others as well as sited folks for other reasons pointed out this was a bad idea and in all future releases this feature is disabled by default so not a show stopper. Seems to happen to all companies though, their quality changes over their histories. Everything I can think of this has done this whether it's Dell or the old Gateway, they start out great and slowly decline. One reason I like apple, they work so hard to keep the quality up and the support to back it up is superior.
On Oct 4, 2010, at 9:22 AM, Scott Howell wrote: > Really, that is interesting. I have an old Linksys I keep here as a backup > and it served me well until I switched to Apple routers. Cisco must have sold > off or farmed out development for their routers lately. DLink was not the > recommended router a few years ago. Funny how manufacturers swap places in > the rankings from time to time. > On Oct 4, 2010, at 10:28 AM, Scott Granados wrote: > >> Do * not * buy anything linksys! >> >> They are knock off cisco products and have al the problems inharent in that. >> >> They do not forward at line rate, do not have stable radios and have serious >> under processing problems. They also have squirrely results when left on >> for a long period of time. >> >> D-Link was definitely the right choice. Oh and the QOS isn't broken on a >> D-Link extreme like it is on the Linksys. Linksys products don't >> appropriately classify or tag traffic for QOS calculations. >> >> >> >> On Oct 4, 2010, at 1:04 AM, Simon Fogarty wrote: >> >>> Donna, >>> >>> Have a look at your router or gateway ip address and use that to log on to >>> the device. >>> But I'd say tak ethe the d-link device back and get a new Linksys device. >>> I"ve never found d-link to be much good for anything and their interface was >>> never overly great. >>> >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com >>> [mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Donna Goodin >>> Sent: Monday, 4 October 2010 10:23 a.m. >>> To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com >>> Subject: #ot configuring network settings with D-Link Extreme? >>> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> Our linksys router broke this week, so we just replaced it with a D-Link >>> extreme. But we're having a problem in that our network settings don't seem >>> to be sticking. How does one go into the network settings for a D-link >>> router, the old httP;//192.168.1.1 doesn't seem to work in this case. >>> Thanks, >>> Donna >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
