Re: Linksys WRT54G v5... Not good...
- From: Sally Shears <SallyShears@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 26 Dec 2005 12:31:25 -0500
In article <390fq1dct538gq3bvofs2fnnv8fgo6nd0a@xxxxxxx>, Jeff
Liebermann <jeffl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Dec 2005 16:35:53 -0500, Sally Shears
> <SallyShears@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> >This is just to document my experience in the last 48 hours with
> >Linksys new WRT54G v5 wireless router/access point.
>
> > - Router set for "mixed" network, WEP, all connections from "B"
> >devices fail. Tried two Apple airport equiped Macs and one other "B"
> >device.
>
> Huh? I have a customer that bought a WRT54G v5 router. I used my
> Orinoco Silver card (802.11b WEP64) for testing it. No problems.
Jeff, thanks for this and all your comments. I'll investigate further.
> > - Router kept losing it's IP. Reboot/power cycle required.
>
> That's the browser. The HTML is suppose to expire the page to insure
> that you're reading pages from the router instead of from the browser
> cache. Some pages (not all) seem to have expire times of zero, which
> never expires. You'll have to flush your browser cache to see the new
> page or set the browser temporarily to load new pages every time.
I don't follow you on this one at all. What I saw was a changing page
from the router's web-based admin interface; the page showed that the
router had lost it's ip (showed IP=0.0.0.0). No matter on this end;
I've returned the v5 units.
> > - Firmware 1.0.0 had obvious bugs... Wireless Security... WEP...
> >screen shows a blank instead of "WEP"
> >
> > 4. I don't think this is Apple Macintosh related (Tried a non-apple
> >device with same results).
> >
> > 5. Unplug the v5 and substitute a v2.2 WRT54G has none of these
> >problems.
> >
> > 6. Based on this experience, I cannot recommend the WRT54G v5. I was
> >able to find a couple of v4's at other retailers.
>
> Well, I can add a few more bugs with V5 (1.00.4 firmware)
> - Remote management on port 8080 often fails to work.
> - I'm getting slow uploads with streaming media. UDP performance
> sucks.
> - Selecting "Optimize Gaming Applications" slows downloads to a crawl
> even when there are no games being run.
> - VoIP with Vonage and Skype are jittery, which is not a problem with
> my WRT54Gv1.1 on the same DSL line.
>
> Also a bunch of others that I haven't bothered to verify. Treat these
> as possibles as I'm not sure they're for real:
> - Passes only one IPSec VPN tunnel.
> - PMTU discovery is acting weird. I've hit some black holes that I
> suspect should have been avoided. I'm guessing it's ignoring ICMP
> packet fragmentation bits.
> - https remote admin offers a certificate which appears to be trashed.
> There's more but I'm too lazy to list. Just about everything I tried
> with this router has gone awry. Salvaging this mess is going to be a
> long uphill battle for Linksys.
Thanks for the additional details. Sounds like we agree about the
wrt54g v5.
-- Sally
--
Sally Shears (a.k.a. "Molly")
SallyShears@xxxxxxxxx -or- Sally@xxxxxxxxxx
SallyShears (at) gmail (dot) com
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