This is horrible news. Linksys used to make some great consumer hardware; I still have a 4+ year old WRT54GL plugging happily along from college.
In contrast, I've never been satisfied with any Belkin product I've owned.
In contrast, I've never been satisfied with any Belkin product I've owned.
I decided to jump ship for ASUS, and I've been pretty happy so far.
Tangential questions: why do consumer routers never have six or eight ethernet ports? Most appear to have space, yet so few include extras.
Not saying I would object to more ports, just my guess as to why.
The enterprise people have already figured this out, I don't know why the consumer people haven't.
Also, I think most consumers who have a need for more than 4 computers to connect to their router via Ethernet probably don't want their entire network to have such an expensive single point of failure. I've had Ethernet ports on wireless routers die before. I like my switch separate from my router/AP separate from my modem.
Toastman: http://www.4shared.com/dir/v1BuINP3/Toastman_Builds.html#dir...
Shibby: http://tomato.groov.pl/download/
I've got a Belkin N+ router and boy is it bad. Have to restart it every two days to get to the maximum download speeds. Wlan(s) just drop at some point during the day and have to restart the whole thing. Argh.
Googling just now it seems that you can push the dd-wrt firmware onto it though. But I hope this move to buy syslink will bring something more to the table.
You really can't judge linksys by the wrt54gl - that's a product from another era, long before they were bought by cisco.
On the other hand, they considered it reasonable to MITM your HTTP traffic to insert ads: http://news.cnet.com/2100-1039_3-5104863.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belkin#Criticism
I made the mistake of trying to mix and match brands once which is a great way to waste time.