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This company needs to close and stop selling products and ripping people off. Customer service.
I'm shopping for another make now. This is the third Linksys router I've owed in less than five year.
And my units are left in cool, dark places, with no movement, no static to fry them. These pieces of garbage fry within a year, they disconnect your connection from the internet for no reason, even after several attempts at resetting.
The connecting ports are just too cheap to maintain contact with the motherboard. You must be joking.
One star is TOO generous
I bought the WRTP54G (v1) VoIP router at my local department store--not for VoIP but because I needed a new wireless G router and it was on clearance at a really good price. As far as I was able to determine, there are no firmware updates available for it--at least not through LinkSys. Because I wasn't using it for VoIP, I cannot comment on how well that feature works; however, as a wireless router, I'm a bit disappointed from a security perspective. It only supports up to WPA with TKIP (not WPA2 or AES). Also, you are supposed to be able to SysLog from it (in some manner), but I was unable to get that to really work using LinkSys' LogViewer. (Did not try it with something like Kiwi).
Your PC already has one that works fine. In fact, it does static IP w/ Port forwarding (unlike the D-Link) which is essential for the fastest peer-to-peer downloads if you like downloading from multiple computers wirelessly.
This device seemed shoddy as well, i.e. I had to reboot it sometimes several times a day to get it to work, until I realized that it wasn't the device's fault at all.
I had to post this review when I read the other 2 bad reviews. After that my Linksys WRTP54G router has been 100% perfect.
It was the lousy recycled cable modem that the Time Warner provided me. I confirmed this with a few tech support calls and Time Warner replaced the modem (they're fault so I didn't have to pay extra for the service call).
And who cares if the router has firewall or not. I highly recommend this Linksys WRTP54G.
Don't put this "dog" (sorry to insult my canine friends) near Vonage. Your VOIP experience will become a living hell. Go with the (only somewhat less terrible alternative) from Vonage (DLink router)
We had and used this router for years when we had Vonage. As time went on, this router got weaker and worse, to the point where we had to reboot it sometimes twice daily for any kind of signal at all. It consistently dropped signals and, when it worked, gave off a very slow, weak signal. I got it from Vonage with my account. The admin panel is unnecessarily complicated.We just tossed them both, this router and Vonage, and went with the Apple Airport Extreme. I'll never look back.
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