Re: Suggested Wireless Router for Home Use

"Ken Bessler" <kg0wx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> hath wroth:

Hey Dave - what firmware version are you running? I just chatted
with Linksys about the problem and they suggested upgrading with
the latest firmware from their site which is 1[1].00.6 ......

I've had 2 customer buy WRT54G v5 boxes. I had to upgrade to 1.00.6
to get them to work even halfway right. See the release notes at:
| http://www.linksys.com/servlet/Satellite?blobcol=urldata&blobheadername1=Content-Type&blobheadername2=Content-Disposition&blobheadervalue1=text%2Fplain&blobheadervalue2=inline%3B+filename%3Dwrt54gv5_ver.txt&blobkey=id&blobtable=MungoBlobs&blobwhere=1130773129588&ssbinary=true
for what was fixed. As far as I can tell from 2 units and from 2
others where customers upgraded it by themselves, the v5 boxes still
have problems, even with 1.00.6. I've seen:
- erratic PPPoE login failures to SBC.
- hangs when using BitTorrent (despite the alleged fix).
- garbled VoIP which was not present when using a different router.
(It's not the QoS settings).
- hangs on wireless to wireless large file transfers.
- hangs on streaming UDP after about 10 minutes.
- failure to deliver a DHCP address an old Mac G3.

In 2 cases, the problems went away when I returned the router and
replaced it with a different model (WGR614v5, WRT54GC). No clue
what's happening with the other two.

It's not a great sample and there are some inconsistencies. All 4
routers did NOT have all the problems listed.

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