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[Jason Tower <jason AT cerient.net>]

Michael Czeiszperger wrote:
> 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.

actually it's openbsd :)