[TriLUG] Xmas wireless question

[Jim Ray]

guess who bought linksys?  cisco.

btw, i've actually had 2 linksys routers go bad.  the company stood behind
their product and replaced them.

when you can go to your local office supply store or computer store and pick
up a replacement unit, you're dealing with a cheap and available brand.  i'm
sure many fall into that category these days and have also heard great
things about orinoco.

it is easy to get ripped off in this industry with all the marketing hype
convincing us to pay more for brand xyz because of quality.  it is amuzing
to me that the company touting quality purchases the cheap and available
brand that had been taking away market share.

whatever you do, don't squeeze the charmin, though...

-----Original Message-----
From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org]On
Behalf Of Greg Brown
Sent: Monday, December 29, 2003 5:43 PM
To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list
Subject: Re: Re[2]: [TriLUG] Xmas wireless question



:  On Sunday, Dec 28, 2003, at 13:26 US/Eastern, Jim Ray wrote:
:
:  cheap and available.  just like toilet paper.

IMHO so is the quality of the Linksys hardware, in this case.  I have a
WAP11 boxed up in my bonus room because of day-to-day oddities and
throughput problems that I haven't been able to nail down (and haven't
had time to fully test).  The Orinoco tirelessly works without fail,
unnecessary reboots, or anything else.  True, for home use the Linksys
is probably okay, depending on the level of babysitting you want to do
with your AP, but I would seriously think twice before deploying
anything but a Orinoco,  perhaps a Cisco, on a business network.

Greg

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