[GTALUG] Cheap vs Inexpensive (Was: router upgrade)

[Scott Sullivan]

On 13/07/17 05:09 PM, James Knott via talk wrote:
> On 07/13/2017 05:03 PM, Scott Sullivan via talk wrote:
>>  From my own experience, this is not the case. I'v been using TP-Link
>> gear for over a decade, in personal and professional settings (having
>> worked at an ISP). I find TP-Link to be of good quality. Some of my
>> personal units I've had in service for 5 years.
> 
> I have a TP-Link TL-WA901ND access point.  While it generally works
> well, it has one bug.  It supports mulitple SSIDs and VLANs.  However,
> the native LAN leaks into the VLAN, so that anything connected to the
> 2nd SSID gets the wrong DHCP etc. info.
> 
> I also have a TL-SG105E managed switch that generally does what it's
> supposed to, but also has some bugs.
> 
> So, I'd put them at the lower end of the quality spectrum.

Ah, this is a fair point, where I have to clarify myself.

I was speaking mostly to the quality of their hardware. Which is above 
average for similarly priced products.

Yes, their software has bugs, and their about where I expect them to be 
in coverage for their target market.

Cisco has equally numerous number of bugs, but their more obscure in odd 
edge cases because their users push that it harder, and pay to be able 
to push extremes.


I also for the most part replace the software on my routers. These days 
that's LEDE, the fork of OpenWRT that's actually getting things done, 
and making regular releases.

-- 
Scott Sullivan