{"id":53,"date":"2006-02-21T21:37:46","date_gmt":"2006-02-21T21:37:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.bananasplit.info\/?p=53"},"modified":"2006-02-21T21:39:57","modified_gmt":"2006-02-21T21:39:57","slug":"linksys-routers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.stmellion.org\/?p=53","title":{"rendered":"Linksys Routers"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m tempted to say that Linksys<\/a> produce the best routers available for the home market. In fact that temptation extends to most of their home network products. Besides working well, they are neat boxes and they are stackable. For a geek like me, stackable stuff is great. It looks smart and doesn’t take up loads of desk space.<\/p>\n

Linksys<\/a> did something great: they produced a router that ran Linux. From their perspective this meant they didn’t have to develop expensive software, and from the users perspective it meant a very powerful and customisable piece of kit. Then the problems began: Linksys<\/a> started playing the old game of modifying their product without changing the model number. I’ve seen this happen before and it still amazes me that companies are allowed to perform such deceptions. The WRT54G model went through a number of releases during its life, all of them sporting very similar hardware, except<\/strong> the very last version (v5.0). In this release, both the RAM and ROM in the box halved. I found this out when I purchased two of these boxes and couldn’t understand why the firmware wouldn’t flash. Some digging around on the Internet revealed many other baffled users with the same problem. There is no way to tell from the product description or packaging what the contents are. Only by unpacking and reading the labels on the underside of the router is it possible to tell if you have the decent product or a seriously cut down version. Like I said, deception.<\/p>\n

Not content with the deception on their WRT54G, Linksys<\/a> have now done the exact same thing with it’s successor, the WRT54GS. This one started off with 32MB RAM and 8MB ROM. Suddenly a new version (v4) appears with 16MB RAM and 4MB ROM. Did Linksys<\/a> advertise this change? Did they hell. To punch the nails a little further into the coffin, the last version (v5) saw a further reduction in ROM to only 2MB.<\/p>\n

I love Linksys<\/a> kit, but I think this behaviour is completely unacceptable. I have bought their products under the belief that something in one box labelled WRT54G will be identical to another box with the same markings. Regardless of what functionality the product may have or not have between versions, they have sold me two different things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m tempted to say that Linksys produce the best routers available for the home market. In fact that temptation extends to most of their home network products. Besides working well, they are neat boxes and they are stackable. For a geek like me, stackable stuff is great. It looks smart and doesn’t take up loads… Continue reading Linksys Routers<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rants","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stmellion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stmellion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stmellion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stmellion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stmellion.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stmellion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stmellion.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stmellion.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stmellion.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}