OT: ADSL safe practices and setting up a home network
Guy Fraser
guy at incentre.net
Mon Apr 17 17:44:09 UTC 2006
On Fri, 2006-14-04 at 08:46 -0500, Jimmy Montague wrote:
> I can't speak for others, but Linksys rules Windows home networking as
> far as I'm concerned. I buy it. I plug it in. It works. The worst
> network hardware in my Windows experience is D-link. I bought it. I
> plugged it in. It didn't work. I exchanged it. I plugged it in. It
> didn't work. I plugged it in 10 bazillion times and it didn't work 10
> bazillion times. Their tech support can't make it work. I'm bald today.
> D-link is crap. Don't buy it.
>
> Jimmy
>
Hogwash!
I deal with all kinds of equipment every day. There are some brands
which are very poorly build and designed and I will not mention
their names, but D-Link is not one of them. Some older D-Link
products were less robust, than others, but I have yet to have
one that could not do what it was supposed to.
LinkSys is also a good consumer grade manufacturer but they have
quirks just like all other consumer grade products. One thing for
example, is that some products are designed not to allow H232
VOIP connectivity, you need to buy a more expensive model with
that feature. Unfortunately during trouble shooting I discovered
with the help of a VOIP manufacturer that the problem was caused
intentionally by a firmware update that LinkSys would not remedy.
For home use, most consumer grade products work as expected, but
the only "bargain" products I have found that work as expected
are the Network Everywhere brand, the only problem with them, is
the support is poor, but what do you expect for bargain basement
prices.
>
> Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> > On Fri, Apr 14, 2006 at 09:00:55 -0400,
> > Debbie Deutsch <fedoralist at ddeutsch.org> wrote:
> >
> >> These days, routers come with the "firewall" capabilities built in. If
> >> you stick with any of the major brands you probably will be fine. (I
> >> have no horror tales about obscure manufacturers, but I *know* you will
> >> almost certainly be okay if you get a model from, say, Linksys or NetGear.)
> >>
> >
> > Buying major brand firewalls is go guarenty of not having problems. Some
> > bonehead decisions have been made in the past in order to reduce support
> > costs for consumer level firewall devices.
> >
> > For someone that doesn't know what they are doing, a consumer level hardware
> > firewall device is a cost effective way to gain some protection.
> >
> > These hardware firewalls are really just software firewalls with the software
> > loaded from firmware. Their advantages are low cost for a dedicated firewall
> > and quietness.
> >
> >
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