Linksys any good ?

tolien · 17 Mar 2007 at 10:52

The Deuce said:
do you have any evidence to back this up?

Linksys routers don't run IOS, for starters, and most of the Linksys routers run a completely different architecture to the Ciscos I've seen (MIPS vs PPC).

And just to put the record straight!

Other than saying what we've already said, that Linksys is a Cisco subsidiary, it proves jiggly squat.

Buy a Linksys, you aren't getting a Cisco. The End.

ruffneck · 17 Mar 2007 at 11:28

tolien said:
Linksys routers don't run IOS, for starters, and most of the Linksys routers run a completely different architecture to the Ciscos I've seen (MIPS vs PPC).

Other than saying what we've already said, that Linksys is a Cisco subsidiary, it proves jiggly squat.

Buy a Linksys, you aren't getting a Cisco. The End.

Speaks the Truth, its like comparing Fiat and Ferarri

afraser2k · 17 Mar 2007 at 11:33

They're not bad. I've got the Linksys WRT54GS v4 router at home though I've heard there was an issue with P2P on them, though I've not had any issues. I think the only problem is not enough space for all the port forwarding I want to do for various games/applications.

Tony Williams · 17 Mar 2007 at 18:01

afraser2k said:
They're not bad. I've got the Linksys WRT54GS v4 router at home though I've heard there was an issue with P2P on them, though I've not had any issues. I think the only problem is not enough space for all the port forwarding I want to do for various games/applications.

I just enable DMZ insted and use software based firewall.

davetherave2 · 17 Mar 2007 at 18:33

i think with this type of OP it is very subjective. I would say that Linksys are great and from the experience I have had with speedtouch routers are also good as well. But belkin I just don't like, they seem to be very flakey and are very hit and miss or maybe that is just the ones I have worked with.

I personally would say that Linksys are very good. I have never had a problem with my WRT54GS v8 (i think its a vsworks based unit) I had a adsl2mue which was rubbish at anything higher than adsl2 speeds (even with the 4.19 beta bios for ADSL2+) and the UI for it was hit and miss as well (a very poorly supported product by linksys) I have used my linksys and Speedtouch (510v6) for the best part of 9 months now and have never had a problem it is rock stable and runs 24/7 with no outages at all.