Customer Reviews:
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 Reboot daily July 25, 2010
Handy Bob (Silicon Valley)
I have had this router for about four months, bought at a local large electronics shop. In terms of configurability, it is pretty decent. The VPN capability has never been used as we use OpenVPN for encrypted connectivity.
The major problem is reliability, particularly the wireless. We have three Lenovo laptops (two T42s and a T61) that access it and signal strength is very good. However, I have to power cycle the unit every day (almost) in order to maintain a connection. Sometimes it goes into a mode where the laptops will get a connection and then after a very short wile get dropped, then they pick it up again and the later it drops. Over an over. Power cycling this Cisco unit fixes that problem.
The firmware I'm running is 2.0.0.11 (the latest) on V01 hardware.
I wish I had a recommendation for an alternative wireless router, but I do not.
Bottom line: If you need the wireless to work continuously, this is not the unit for you.
DO NOT BUY THIS ROUTER...!!!! June 26, 2010
R. Ashe
This router is the worst router I have ever owned, and network engineering is what I do for a living. I am here to tell you I would give anything to be able to take this thing back to the store, unfortunately I got it from CompUSA and have had it longer than 30 days. But I decided tonight, after another endless night of frustration to cut my losses and run. I will never own another Linksys router as long as I live. I had a Netgear before this one and the only reason I had to replace it was because my house got hit by lightning and it fried my router and switch.
I work with Cisco Enterprise class equipment all day, everything from the Cisco ASA to the latest Cisco Nexxus switches, so when it came time to pick up something for home, I naturally gravitated towards the familiar Cisco logo; even though I knew this was just a rebranded Linksys I figured Cisco has owned them long enough to improve their quality. So on with the review:
The (very short list) of the good:
1) Attractive case
2) Decent SOHO networking features (on paper at least)
The BAD (where should I begin?)
1) I have a 25Mb/s down / 15 Mb/s Up Verizon FIOS line at home, and anytime WAN network utilization exceeds approximately 1MB/s (8Mb/s) the router crashes. It either completely stops responding or it will reboot
2) For the wireless side of the house its even worse; if total wireless bandwidth exceeds 500KB/s the router locks up to the point that it stops transmitting completely. LAN cabled devices still have connectivity, but not wireless. Sometimes with a long enough wait the wireless will come back, other times I have to unplug the router and plug it back in.
3) Occasionally the wireless problem will also crash the LAN devices, causing the whole router to lock up and reboot or lock up until I remove the power
4) Supposedly this router has RangeBoosting features, however in reality it is installed in the exact same place my other router was sitting yet I get half the range. Less than 10' from my house I am now down to 2 bars, whereas with the NetGear I could easily walk 80' in any direction before observing signal degradation.
5) Even when the router appears to be functioning normally, if you attempt to log into the web interface a lot of times it will say page not found. The only fix is to remove the power from the router and plug it back in.
6) It does not maintain any local logs, if you do not want to set up your computer as an SNMP server then you will have no way to view the logs generated by this router.
7) This router is having this many problems despite the fact that I am ONLY using it as a router. I have a dedicated Gig switch that I am using as my access layer for my network. All this router has to do is process wireless and WAN traffic, no switching necessary. I can only imagine what would happen if I used the integrated switch.
Conclusion:
This router was a complete waste of money, and I will have to cut my losses and run. Its really too bad Cisco has obviously made no effort whatsoever to improve their Linksys family. Although I will continue to recommend Cisco's enterprise line of routers, switches, and firewalls; this will be the last Linksys I ever own. Ironically Verizon provided a Westell cable router which I placed upstream of this router and it never has any of these issues, has a much better firewall and administrative console, and far more robust features.
Stear clear of this one!! May 21, 2010
Dan Rents (Daytona Beach FL)
Avoid this router at all cost!! My first one died over night, got a replacement, the second one died about 3 months later in the middle of a very important conference. Both were running the latest firmware updates. Seems like it crashes under medium to heavy data traffic loads, looses all setup information and reverts to factory defaults. If you dont mind the embarrassment of your WIFI going down during important meetings then its a great bargain. Shame on Cisco for even putting their name on this router.
not acceptable March 17, 2010
Dale (St Louis)
This router is reasonably easy to configure and provides acceptable performance for a SOHO or small business environment. I have deployed several of these routers and have consistently had the same problem. The router eventually refuses remote administration requiring an on-site visit to reconfigure the device. The VPN tunnel continues to work but the device is remotely inaccessable, firmware updates did not resolve the problem. I have been unable to resolve the problem and elected to replace all deployed devices some time ago.
Web configuration buggy and unusable February 20, 2010
Mark (Sunnyvale, CA USA)
As another reviewer pointed out, this is *not* a Cisco router but a Linksys router, in spite of the labeling.
The web configuration doesn't work on Safari, and on Firefox is so slow that you can spend hours trying to tweak the config if there is any problem. I couldn't get it to connect to the WAN, though my other Linksys router connects just fine.
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