Cisco to sell Linksys

[lothar]

my E4200 has been pretty badass. what other company makes a better router for the home?

Buffalo.
ASUS.

 

[evident]

Buffalo.
ASUS.

i'd say linksys right up there. better? depends on the specific models but they are all pretty top brands.

 

[lord_emperor]

All consumer routers suck, no point in arguing which one sucks the least.

 

[halik]

The newer Netgear routers are pretty good.

This. Have a netgear router with NAS and DLNA server built in. Serves up 1TB of raid1 + boatload of divx moves to the ps3.

 

[Tommy2000GT]

Linksys and Netgear routers used to be great a long time ago. Now they are complete garbage. For home routers Asus and Apple are the best.

 

[Genx87]

Linksys seemed to be pretty good for home use. Ironically after Crisco bought them out the quality got noticeably worse.

 

[dr150]

I'll echo a previous comment.

There is NO "best" company for home routers.

You have to take a model on a case by case basis. With proper research, you can get a decent router from many companies in this segment.

 

[RGN]

If it were really enterprise class, it would have a fan.

Sorry, I've never seen an enterprise AP with a fan. Not all routers have a fan. Obviously routers scale up quick, and the Airport isn't a "router" at all....

Where did you hear that?

I should have been more clear, I was referencing the Wifi aspects of the AirPort Extreme. Some of us are aware it's not a router at all, but an integrated Nat appliance with an AP. the AP is done really really well. The NAT side is commodity features.

 

[Fox5]

Actually the AirPort Extreme is a very solid router. It's basically enterprise class hardware packaged for the consumer. They are feature rich and reliable. More reliable than anything Linksys has put out.

I hate it. I think it's light in features, and ours crashes whenever a time machine backup occurs.

That said, it does have above average wireless range. But I'd rather have multiple 5ghz n access points for cheaper than try to cover a household with a single apple router.

That said, Linksys would be just about the last router brand I would recommend or buy at this point. I've been a fan of Buffalo, and Netgear and Asus aren't bad.

 

[Ichinisan]

I hate it. I think it's light in features, and ours crashes whenever a time machine backup occurs.

That said, it does have above average wireless range. But I'd rather have multiple 5ghz n access points for cheaper than try to cover a household with a single apple router.

That said, Linksys would be just about the last router brand I would recommend or buy at this point. I've been a fan of Buffalo, and Netgear and Asus aren't bad.

It can work with multiple Airport Express units to create more 5Ghz networks and still be a single LAN.