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[Michael Czeiszperger <michael AT czeiszperger.org>]

On Nov 30, 2005, at 8:56 AM, Greg Brown wrote:

> Does anyone own one?  Are they as bad as the net chatter is saying?  I
> would think they couldn't be "that bad", but maybe they are.
> Generally the first release of a new or totally redesigned product can
> be a bit buggy but from what I am reading you have to reset the v.5
> units on a daily basis and QOS simply won't work.

The Linksys QOS algorithms are terrible.  We tried it for the office  
to protect bandwidth for VOIP, and every time we did an upload not  
only did the phones not work, but *ALL* network traffic (other than  
the upload) was killed.  And that was with the latest firmware.

We just switched to using Free BSD on an ancient computer for QOS  
bandwidth control and it works like a charm.  I'm a firm believer in  
buying a tiny cheap box like Linksys for networking simply on the  
grounds of size & power consumption, but so far nothing works nearly  
as well.
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