[TriLUG] Xmas wireless question

[Jim Ray]

0's and 1's don't differentiate biz/home or brand.  before corporate out of
nj laid down the law on their motorola router and frac t1 at my largest
client, i had roadrunner biz class service at that site with fancy schamncy
cisco 924 router.  it puked *3* times over 2 years while my residential
roadrunner connection with motorola cable modem and linksys router kept on
ticking.

too bad corporate pays ten times as much and gets ten times less bandwidth.
ah, the price of control.

Mbps, IP, DNS and cost are all that matter.  everything else can just go
home and is pure marketing fluff.

-----Original Message-----
From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org]On
Behalf Of Greg Brown
Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2003 6:50 PM
To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list
Subject: Re: Re[2]: [TriLUG] Xmas wireless question


But we're back to business vs. home use.  Cisco has been wanting to get
into the home market for a long time so purchasing Linksys seems like a
logical step.  Comparing the quality of inksys hardware to something
that Cisco, Foundry, Extreme, etc might produce gives me a good
chuckle, though.  Last time I checked there was nothing from Linksys on
the government TIC approved list.  And there's a reason for that
(probably several).

In the end for home use Linksys is probably fine.  $79.00 for a card
and an AP is hard to beat.  On a network that I had to support I
wouldn't have a Linksys anything unless I wanted to visit the client on
a higher than regular basis for some reason.