think twice about buying Linksys routers

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Fri, Jul 06, 2012 at 01:15:25PM -0400, Colin McGregor wrote:
> No, more like I like the house, the location, the layout and the
> price, but I HATE the colour. As long as re-painting the house isn't
> going to be a big issue, then the house is worth considering. If they
> block changing the colour then there are issues. If the hardware is
> good, at a decent price and can be easily adapted to what I want I
> don't see an issue.

Painting your house doesn't void the warranty.

> True, I have heard a number of nice things said about products from
> several other firms. The big advantage at present with Linksys is that
> they seem to be EVERYWHERE at reasonable prices.

For the features and specs, buffalo is cheaper.  Harder to find, but
worth it.

> Still, to follow-up on some of the other comments noted here, I would
> have trouble recommending a Linksys router to someone that wasn't
> going to get re-flashed (ie: non-techie friends and family).

Also does linksys cancel your warranty if you reflash it with something
else?

-- 
Len Sorensen
--
The Toronto Linux Users Group.      Meetings: http://gtalug.org/
TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns
How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://gtalug.org/wiki/Mailing_lists