[mdlug] Router is giving up on routing let alone working

[Jim Broughton]

I have had an older Linksys B router get flaky on me I replaced it with
a  Linksys WRT54G. So far it has been operational for
about 4 years. I almost bricked the 54G with a semi failed attempt to put
one of the after market Linux systems in it. I put the original system
Linksys system back in and have left it alone since.
 With the B model the wireless portion is what got flaky but
the wired switch portion stayed working quite well.

Jim




Robert Adkins wrote:
> A number of people that I have spoken to about this have experienced the
> same kind of failure mode creeping up.
>
> I ended up buying a D-Link, it came with a GPL notice.
>
> It certainly has a significantly larger set of options available out of the
> box than my Linksys had.
>
> -Rob
>
>
>   
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: mdlug-bounces at mdlug.org 
>> [mailto:mdlug-bounces at mdlug.org] On Behalf Of Dan Pritts
>> Sent: Tuesday, November 03, 2009 3:04 PM
>> To: MDLUG's Main discussion list
>> Subject: Re: [mdlug] Router is giving up on routing let alone working
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 03, 2009 at 02:11:32PM -0500, Robert Adkins wrote:
>>     
>>> It just makes little sense, to me, that they would fail 
>>>       
>> after only a 
>>     
>>> handful of years.
>>>       
>> We only have a few anecdotes (yours and another person's seem 
>> to have failed; my two haven't, at least not yet).  That 
>> doesn't really tell us anything about the reliability of these things.
>>
>> but given that they are built to a price rather than to a 
>> high quality standard...
>>
>> danno
>> --
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