Linksys wireless network SUCKS!

From day one I could never access my downstairs machine. I just
spent two hours on the phone with Linksys tech support.The verdict?
They are emailing me new drivers for my 54g wireless network card. I
am surprised they did not tell me to reformat my hard drive. I am
haveing a hard time believeing new drivers are going to solve my
problem. I have too much time with this Linksys garbage. I should
have gone with the Microsoft wireless network. Considering I despise
MS that is really saying something. Sorry I just had to vent and
trash Linksys in the process.

Mike

On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 03:56:43 GMT, mfell2112*NOSPAM*@yahoo.com wrote:

> From day one I could never access my downstairs machine. I just
>spent two hours on the phone with Linksys tech support.The verdict?
>They are emailing me new drivers for my 54g wireless network card. I
>am surprised they did not tell me to reformat my hard drive. I am
>haveing a hard time believeing new drivers are going to solve my
>problem. I have too much time with this Linksys garbage. I should
>have gone with the Microsoft wireless network. Considering I despise
>MS that is really saying something. Sorry I just had to vent and
>trash Linksys in the process.

This sounds familiar. Two years ago this May I had intractable problems with a
new Linksys' wireless A wap and pccard on Win2K, was fortunate enough to
exchange them for Netgear, zero problems, works sweet, on 2K and XP Pro as
well.

It was clearly a driver problem with the nic. Maybe you'll get lucky...

/daytripper

On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 04:10:32 GMT, daytripper
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 03:56:43 GMT, mfell2112*NOSPAM*@yahoo.com wrote:
>
>> From day one I could never access my downstairs machine. I just
>>spent two hours on the phone with Linksys tech support.The verdict?
>>They are emailing me new drivers for my 54g wireless network card. I
>>am surprised they did not tell me to reformat my hard drive. I am
>>haveing a hard time believeing new drivers are going to solve my
>>problem. I have too much time with this Linksys garbage. I should
>>have gone with the Microsoft wireless network. Considering I despise
>>MS that is really saying something. Sorry I just had to vent and
>>trash Linksys in the process.
>
>This sounds familiar. Two years ago this May I had intractable problems with a
>new Linksys' wireless A wap and pccard on Win2K, was fortunate enough to
>exchange them for Netgear, zero problems, works sweet, on 2K and XP Pro as
>well.
>
>It was clearly a driver problem with the nic. Maybe you'll get lucky...
>
>/daytripper


I hope so but, I have a feeling this is not going to work. Looking at
the instructions they made it look easy. I would love to get rid of
this although I have had it for a year or so. It never work right
from day one. Then when you call Linksys support it takes 40 mintues
to get a tech. All in all this has been a very bad expirence for me.
BTW, The router sucks as well.

Mike

On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 03:56:43 GMT, mfell2112*NOSPAM*@yahoo.com <mfell2112*NOSPAM*@yahoo.com> wrote:
> From day one I could never access my downstairs machine. I just
>spent two hours on the phone with Linksys tech support.The verdict?

The verdict? Wireless networks are inherently less reliable than
wired networks, not to mention the horrendous security problems.
(Wireless LANs are trivially simple to break into.) It's your
choice, but I'd stick with a traditional wired network, or perhaps
phone line or power line adapters.

--
Roger Blake
(Subtract 10 for email.)

On Wed, 21 Jan 2004 17:04:45 GMT, (E-Mail Removed) (Roger Blake) wrote:

>On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 03:56:43 GMT, mfell2112*NOSPAM*@yahoo.com <mfell2112*NOSPAM*@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> From day one I could never access my downstairs machine. I just
>>spent two hours on the phone with Linksys tech support.The verdict?
>
>The verdict? Wireless networks are inherently less reliable than
>wired networks, not to mention the horrendous security problems.
>(Wireless LANs are trivially simple to break into.) It's your
>choice, but I'd stick with a traditional wired network, or perhaps
>phone line or power line adapters.

Fat lot of good that'd do with a roaming notebook. You mean I can't read news
and surf out on my deck with a cold one any more?

A properly designed and implemented wireless segment works as these things
were originally intended to do - which is *not* to replace wired segments, but
to allow roaming clients.

No doubt 98% of wireless installation are negligently configured because 98%
of the users are clueless, refuse to rtfm, and already had security risks up
the keister with their *wired* segments so why should the wireless side be any
better.

Don't advertise a wap, use mac filtering to allow only known macs to get
through the wap, enable 128 or 156 bit WEP if capable to keep out the kiddie
riff-raff, use mac filtering at the routing appliance so only known macs get
to WAN, don't use Windows 95/98/ME which are outrageously insecure at their
best, make sure all systems require per-user authentication, turn off
unnecessary network services and protocols, and run software firewalls and
rogue application blockers on everything that has a pulse.

It isn't perfect, but it's pretty resilient. If someone does manage to get
through the intrinsic weak spot (the wap) they're not going to get very far...

/daytripper