think twice about buying Linksys routers

[Colin McGregor]

On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 8:42 PM, D. Hugh Redelmeier <hugh-pmF8o41NoarQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> <http://www.extremetech.com/computing/132142-ciscos-cloud-vision-mandatory-monetized-and-killed-at-their-discretion>
> You now have to ceded control to Linksys' cloud service.

I don't have an issue with buying Linksys hardware. I would have a
problem with running Linksys software. In other words, I wouldn't get
Linksys hardware that I can't reflash to something like Tomato Linux
:-) .

> (The CellPipe modem's for Bell's VDSL2 suffer from a similar problem.  You
> have no control over firmware updates.  The current version is buggy and
> there is no relief.)
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