[TriLUG] Xmas wireless question

[Greg Brown]

But we're back to business vs. home use.  Cisco has been wanting to get 
into the home market for a long time so purchasing Linksys seems like a 
logical step.  Comparing the quality of inksys hardware to something 
that Cisco, Foundry, Extreme, etc might produce gives me a good 
chuckle, though.  Last time I checked there was nothing from Linksys on 
the government TIC approved list.  And there's a reason for that 
(probably several).

In the end for home use Linksys is probably fine.  $79.00 for a card 
and an AP is hard to beat.  On a network that I had to support I 
wouldn't have a Linksys anything unless I wanted to visit the client on 
a higher than regular basis for some reason.

Greg

On Monday, Dec 29, 2003, at 21:27 US/Eastern, Jim Ray wrote:

>
>
> 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...