[TriLUG] Linksys long in the tooth?

[Joseph Mack NA3T]

On Mon, 14 Jan 2008, Jeremy Portzer wrote:

> I have a Belkin four-port wireless router/switch that I bought here in
> Australia.  The wireless cuts in and out about every 1-2 hours.  You
> have to power cycle the device to get it to work about 50% of the time
> when this happens.  It's a royal pain - I tried to call their technical
> support to get a new one, but gave up when I couldn't get to someone who
> could talk intelligently about the problem (once I "admitted" that power
> cycling "fixed" it, they didn't want to talk to me any further).
>
> I've never had any problems of this sort with Netgear or Linksys products.

I had 3 Linksys WAP-11's all of which needed power cycling 
at least once a day. I'd preemptively power cycle them as I 
walked past.

Joe

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