Never buying Linksys again

[Sideswipe001]

Thats 3/3 in linksys products that I've had issues with.

First I got a 10/100 NIC of thiers a few years ago. The card worked fine until you tried to play Rouge Spear online - at which point it would randomly BSOD. (Had to replace the entire computer part by part until I figured out that was the culprit).

Next, I had a friend with a Linksys broadband router. That worked...except for the fact that port forwarding never did anything. No matter what I set the port forwarding to, it never did work right, and he could never host games (and yes, I do know what i'm doing. I've worked with a lot of routers).

But the straw here for me was the Gigabit Linksys card I have been using. It was fine...until I installed a SCSI controller and HD. Then it corrupted my files like mad. Every time I started transferring anything over the LAN, next thing I know windows is corrupted beyond repair. Never again will I touch a linksys product.

 

[Raybdbomb]

shrug, i've never had any problems with my 3 linksys products i've had for 1-3 years

 

[OverVolt]

Originally posted by: Raybdbomb
shrug, i've never had any problems with my 3 linksys products i've had for 1-3 years

same here i think linksys is great

 

[josedawg]

Wow, sucks. I've never had ANY bad experiences with Linksys. It's one of the few networking brands I always go to when asked for home networking advice. It used to be netgear, but I believe Linksys is much better now.

 

[Megatomic]

Originally posted by: OverVolt

Originally posted by: Raybdbomb
shrug, i've never had any problems with my 3 linksys products i've had for 1-3 years

same here i think linksys is great

same here

 

[ArcticChill]

Well u should then try this product: here the link:
X-micro Router

 

[ultimatebob]

I like Linksys products, but they don't necessarilly like me

My first Linksys network card AND my first Linksys wireless card for laptop self-destructed a few days after I got them, and I had to have them both replaced under warranty. My Linksys wireless router was also really flaky when I first bought it, but it works much better after I upgraded the firmware.

Everything works OK now, though. That said , I would NEVER buy another 1st generation Linksys product again! I'll wait for the revision 2, and let someone else be their product beta tester

 

[Stealth1024]

Personally I have always liked linksys for wireless access points better than any other company..

 

[PunDogg]

Originally posted by: Sideswipe001

Next, I had a friend with a Linksys broadband router. That worked...except for the fact that port forwarding never did anything. No matter what I set the port forwarding to, it never did work right, and he could never host games (and yes, I do know what i'm doing. I've worked with a lot of routers).
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I actually have that problem right now, any idea how to fix it??

DOgg

 

[SocrPlyr]

Originally posted by: ultimatebob
I like Linksys products, but they don't necessarilly like me

My first Linksys network card AND my first Linksys wireless card for laptop self-destructed a few days after I got them, and I had to have them both replaced under warranty. My Linksys wireless router was also really flaky when I first bought it, but it works much better after I upgraded the firmware.

Everything works OK now, though. That said , I would NEVER buy another 1st generation Linksys product again! I'll wait for the revision 2, and let someone else be their product beta tester

There is a good bit of advice in there, but you put a restriction that shouldn't be there... I would suggest never buying ANY company's 1st gen network hardware...
This is from experience with several different products including a dlink router which while in a retail box came with beta firmware and there was no final release yet. as well as some NICs that we used... we kept using SMC nics w/ some chipset (forgive me i forget) and they switched chipsets and only made a minor change to the model number and the cards would BSOD all over the place w/ win9x (don't know if they ever fixed it but the chipset was new and SMC branded)
Another example was my Uni for years used first gen ATM products for the school's network (capable of 155Mbit/s) and today we still hear horror stories of that system (which the never got the funding to change to later revision hardware and they had this for 7 years i think)
basically just beware of first gen stuff...

Sideswipe
now as for linksys, man to be honest with you i think you just have had a spout of bad luck, i have never had a problem with any of my linksys gear. I have used 50 or so pieces over the years and i still have no problems with any of them. To be honest I can come up with other explainations for all of your problems but I don't think that would be productive...

Anyone else,
do not base your purchases on any one person's problems
or success stories for that matter...

Josh

 

[SocrPlyr]

Originally posted by: PunDogg

Originally posted by: Sideswipe001

Next, I had a friend with a Linksys broadband router. That worked...except for the fact that port forwarding never did anything. No matter what I set the port forwarding to, it never did work right, and he could never host games (and yes, I do know what i'm doing. I've worked with a lot of routers).

I actually have that problem right now, any idea how to fix it??

DOgg

Make sure your firmware is up to date... if that doesn't fix your problem call linksys, they will help you out every time i have called them they have been a great help, if it is the fault of your hardware and it is still under warranty they will replace it...
other things to check... you don't have a firewall on the computer installed, or if you do you have the proper ports open. Norton Internet Security and like programs have a firewall as well as a virus scanner. i don't know what you are trying forward, but set up a http server on a random port and check that... sometimes it is some games that aren't working properly...

Josh

 

[Megatomic]

For anyone that didn't already know, Linksys is a division of Cisco Systems now (has been for almost a year now IIRC).

 

[JustAnAverageGuy]

Not had any major problems with my linksys stuff.

My only complaint with their 2-port KVM is that if you're using USB --> PS\2 adapters that the monitor cable sometimes knocks em out :/