Linksys routers.

i have a linksys router and it is a piece of crap. it slows down and almost stops my internet flow or connection(whatever you want to call it) half the time when im trying to do something on a page i have to refresh it like 3 times. before the stupid page loads, and it started doing this after i got the god damn thing, its such a pain in the ass, i think i mgiht package it up nice and tightly and then find the idiot who made it and throw it at his head. 

anyone use linksys and like or dislike them?


PS-i phoned there customer support and in roughly 45minutes on the phone with a service rep, i got nowhere. no one at the linksys help center speaks english whatsoever, none of them qualified enough to be allowed to even use a phone in a country thats primarily english speaking.

It seems just like any other wireless router I've ever connected too.  If you want such an amazing connection, you have to sacrifice mobility and plug in.

tallen702 wrote: hey, squishey, you wireless? if so, do you have WEP encryption running? if not, someone's probably piggy-backing your connection.

WEP = Crap. WPA is much more secure. You can find a wep key in under a minute.

Also bit torrent kills routers. Try making yourself a DMZ on the router. You lose the firewall protection but you get sped up.

192.168.1.1

It's amazing what all you can learn from just reading the stuff in there.

My Wii, my G/F's computer, her brothers computer, and her Dads computer all use, Linksys... We've never had even a hick-up up for Bad connections.... you must of errored on something, the only problems we somewhat have is that sometimes Cookies will slow it down from time to time... but with two clicks it's all better...   I don't know why, but if your running to many Anti-Virus Scans, that may slow it down(AKA: Norton).

Edit:  WHAT?! you can't say ...no. you can't


Edited by Reb Cpl - 29 January 2007 at 11:28am

The only problem I've run into with Linksys routers occurs when we have a lot of people on the wireless and hardwired at the same time. You could download a freeware MAC Scanner and see if anyone else is leeching off your wireless.

edit- You could also try updating your firmware.


Edited by Benjichang - 29 January 2007 at 11:23am

I've not had a problem using Linksys products ever since Cisco bought the product line.

Squishey wrote: mbro wrote: tallen702 wrote: hey, squishey, you wireless? if so, do you have WEP encryption running? if not, someone's probably piggy-backing your connection. WEP = Crap. WPA is much more secure. You can find a wep key in under a minute. Also bit torrent kills routers. Try making yourself a DMZ on the router. You lose the firewall protection but you get sped up. is wpa like a program you buy for it or something?

Lurk moar.

I have the problem of having to reload a page every now and then, but it really isn't that big of a deal.  Also, my stepdad will complain about the main computer's speed every few weeks, but not often enough to demand that I fix it.

Linksys isn't too bad for me, sometimes it doesn't work and wants to disconect but it normally works and when it's working its always pretty fast.