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Originally Posted by Begize
I'm affraid I have to spoil the little Linksys fan party here and say my experience with them has been terrible.
I bought a WKPC54G networking kit for a mate who wanted his NTL broadband made wireless. The kit includes a WKR54G router which I believe is a cut down version of the WKT54G and a PC card (his laptop didn't have wireless built it).
I had nothing but trouble getting it to work. Dead dead easy to setup and get working but then stopped the next day and was intermittent after that. Eventually it just packed it all together and even a factory reset wouldn't fix it.
Fair enough I thought, these things happen, and returned it for another one. Which developed exactly the same fault. Checking the net it would appear that this is a fairly widespread problem that Linksys just can't be bothered to fix (the extent of their reply to email was "try a factory reset and reinstalling the software". The general feeling on most websites I saw seemed to be that because it's a cheaper version of a better product, what did I expect. 
Personally I found that quite shocking and so returned the second faulty one for a lovely Netgear piece of kit which is yet to put a foot wrong.
It's a shame because as someone who's worked with Cisco stuff which is generally rock solid reliable, day in day out for the last 15 years or so, I'm sorry to have say this, but I wouldn't touch Linksys again with a very very very long barge pole.  |
How many times do i have to tell people WRK54G's are NOT good routers. I had one, caused a hell of a lot of hassle. Everytime someone mentions one i tell them off.
WRT54G's are excellent, WRK54G's are crap.