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2005/10/20-22 [Computer/Networking] UID:40202 Activity:low
10/20   There's an SMC 54Mbps Wireless Cable/DSL Broadband Router on sale at
        MicroCenter for $7.99.  Does anyone have and bad experience with this
        router?  I'm looking for a wired router for my two desktops at home,
        but this one is even cheaper than the wired routers.  TIA.
        \_ Dude, it's eight bucks.  -John
           \_ Yeah, I can dump it if it's bad.  But I'm new to networking, so
              if it causes incompatibility or other problems, I would't be able
              to tell whether it's the router or it's something else.
        \_ Look to http://newegg.com, Amazon, and http://cnet.com user reviews.
           http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16833129017
        \_ I bought one for my parents.  Range seems fine, doesn't seem to
           crash or hang.  My parents are not very demanding users, and
           their needs are modest (no vpn, games, don't need ports open,
           no particular filtering, etc.).
        \_ On a related question, I have the netgear WG614 and it's a
           piece of junk. Netgear use to make good stuff, but the
           WG614 has so many problems. Anyone care to recommend a good
           router? My experience with Linksys was from the pre-cisco
           era, and back then netgear's stuff is way more stable than
           linksys. Has their stuff improved after being part of
           cisco? What about d-link?
           \_ I bought Linksys WRT54G recently and I am extremely pleased
              with it even though I didn't bother with installing customized
              Linux-based firmware on it. It is very stable, has all the
              features that I need and "just works" (tm). I was specially
              pleased that it keeps the NAT state properly for ssh sessions
              and doesn't kill them after a period of inactivity (lots of
              routers seem to do that, at very least with their earlier
              firmware versions)
              \_ You mean it runs for weeks/month without the need to
                 reset? If so I will seriously consider it...
                 \_ Yes. It has been working fine for six weeks so far but YMMV
                    specially since many such gadgets can have several
                    hardware revisions while keeping the same model name.
                    I am connecting with cat5 cable but my roommate are using
                    wireless (with WPA/shared key).
                    \_ Six weeks of uptime is not that long.  I have a d-link di-624
                       that's been running for several months.
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