[TriLUG] Linksys long in the tooth?

[Engle, Victor]

Hi Neil,

I'm not surprised to hear a HAM recommend an astron power supply. It's
been a while but I recall those were excellent power supplies.

I have an Advance class license and first got my license back in the
early nineties. I drove from the Birmingham area to Lawrenceville GA to
a Ham Fest and took the old Novice and Technician exam and followed up
later with the General including 13 WPM CW and later the Advance exam.

I'm not on the air at all these days but occasionally think about
installing at least a mobile rig of some kind. 

Regards,
Vic, kq4oz  

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Neil L. Little [mailto:nllittle at embarqmail.com] 
> Sent: Sunday, January 13, 2008 9:15 AM
> To: Triangle Linux Users Group General Discussion
> Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Linksys long in the tooth?
> 
> Had the issue with the linksys router locking up. These oft 
> times are caused by the wall wart (power supply) not 
> producing clean/correct voltages.
> 
> Also an issue with firmware. In this case a upgrade of 
> firmware solved the lockup issue and also resulted in an 
> increase of bandwidth (it sped up data transfers) and yes 
> version change document referred to optimization of TCP/IP 
> stack. Of course fun thing is linksys is aware of the 
> hobby/enthusiast sector that likes to reflash their products 
> with 3rd party firmware. The WRT54GL is the result of that.
> 
> Don't be afraid to reflash the firmware right out of the box.
> 
> As for the wall wart story, These wall warts are generally 
> cheaply built and produce minimal power requirements for the 
> device. They can also be a source of interference for other 
> devices. if you find your self with a large number of these 
> things, get your self a good power supply (I am particular to 
> Astron) that produces a clean dc signal, or better yet a 
> string of recombinant gel-cell batteries with a good trickle charger. 
> Find a good fused DC distribution panel (MFJ or West Mountain 
> Radio) and feed all your wall wart devices with it. They will 
> thank you in the end.
> 
> 73,
> Neil, WA4AZL
> JARS Forever!!
> 
> Engle, Victor wrote:
> >  
> >   
> >> No interest in flame, I really don't care that much. But please DO 
> >> tell of both good and bad experiences like Tom has mentioned.
> >>
> >>     
> >
> > Can't say I've given Belkin a chance but I have tried working with 
> > cheap little Netgear, Linksys and D-Link routers and got so 
> frustrated 
> > with chronic problems I went back to using a linux/iptables router. 
> > I've placed my wireless router behind the linux firewall 
> and have had 
> > much less trouble; in fact I've had no trouble. Before, when the 
> > wireless router was actually the gateway, I was frequently 
> having to 
> > power cycle it because it just seemed to lockup which knocked my 
> > webserver and VoIP phone offline. The linux/iptables setup 
> by contrast 
> > has been solid as a rock.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Vic
> >
> >  
> >   
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