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| Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, July 05 2012 @ 08:11 AM EDT |
I don't recommended LinkSys gear to clients now. I had a disastrous experience
with four ADSL/VPN boxes with the Cisco-badged firmware. Ultimately they were
just not fit for purpose. Never worked properly for longer than a few hours and
several times even rebooted and wiped their configs.
Unfortunately the best fix was to replace them with more expensive Cisco boxes.
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| Authored by: hardmath on Thursday, July 05 2012 @ 09:20 AM EDT |
Link
I have a vintage Linksys router, probably from shortly after they
were acquired by Cisco, and so far no problems. However I'd seen this reported
on Google+ and was thinking about linking it in here.
My feeling is that
Cisco has crossed a line and will get unwanted attention from the Justice Dept.
It's just way too intrusive on private communications for a private
company.
Unless, of course, they did it at the government's request (insert
paranoia tags as appropriate).
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| Authored by: Kilz on Thursday, July 05 2012 @ 09:57 AM EDT |
dd-wrt is a Linux based firmware alternative that adds
features. Its real nice
and relitivly easy to install.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, July 05 2012 @ 09:58 AM EDT |
They too updated customer owned hardware with new firmware in a way that was
detrimental to the consumer. But going to Court showed Sony - and others -
there's nothing to fear for such an act.
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| Authored by: Patrick Corrigan on Thursday, July 05 2012 @ 11:02 PM EDT |
I bought the Asus RT-N16 specifically because it supported all the features of
open source, Linux-based TomatoUSB firmware. I am extremely happy with this
router and firmware.
This story gives me another reason to avoide Cisco and Linksys products.
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