Doug Crompton on Thu, 29 Aug 2002 00:34:05 -0400


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Re: [PLUG] OT: Comcast problems


Yes the one that went down is a linksys. Had been working fine for months.
The router is not bad. It appears to be a comcast change. I see other
complaints on some of the lists. I wonder if I should pick up a different
brand? Any preferences?

Doug

On Thu, 29 Aug 2002, Art Clemons wrote:

> If you have a linksys router, you might want to download an earlier 
> version of firmware, or alternatively use whatever box works as a router 
> with a 2nd NIC and an appropriate firewall setup.  I have more problems 
> when my modem unexpectedly gets bumped and resets than with a netgear 
> router, I had lots of fun with 2 different linksys routers, so much that 
> I went to using an old 486 as a gateway with a switch connected to the 
> 2nd NIC and other computers.  That worked quite well until the fan 
> cooling the CPU stopped working one day.
> 

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