think twice about buying Linksys routers

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Fri, Jul 06, 2012 at 11:30:45AM -0400,  wrote:
> At least for some models affected they do offer the ability to "downgrade"
> to the old firmware interface.
> 
> It does seem Cisco has very much screwed up here.  How are you supposed to
> fix your router to get on the internet if you have to be on the internet
> to connect to the configuration system for your router?  Seems a lot of
> users are not impressed.

That didn't last long:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/07/06/cisco_connect_cloud_linksys/

Seems the PR disaster was just way too expensive to deal with.
Routers are being returned to their former state now, and they won't
push updates anymore without being asked to, and the cloud management
will now be optional rather than mandetory.

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Len Sorensen
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