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It's a new year, hurrah! Only a few months till the weather gets warm again.
My brother and his girlfriend/wife are immigrating to the U.S. from Germany.
Brrr.
Product Review: LinkSys WRT160N V2 Wireless-N Broadband router (N Ultra RangePlus).
Some minor problems installing it (following the instructions, we kept getting "302 Internal Error"). Configuring it manually worked ok, but we kept having problems with the internet connection. In the end, there seems to be some kind of issue with the router and DNS, as on both the wired computer and the wireless computer, we sporadically but frequently get page load errors... if we keep retrying to reload the page, eventually it works. Sometimes, one website would work and others would not. Sometimes, everything would work fine for a while, and then we'd start getting the page load errors again. This did not happen when connected directly to the modem, or when using the old router (which we've reverted to now again), so it is not a problem with the DNS servers themselves. Tried searching online for a solution to the problem, to no avail. It might be a problem with the latest firmware build, but LinkSys does not have the previous build available for download, so we could not try downgrading to it.
So, thumbs down on this product :(
Although, it does look nifty. Nice sleek shiny black plastic; looks sort of like a stealth bomber in comparison to the old router.
It's a new year, hurrah! Only a few months till the weather gets warm again.
My brother and his girlfriend/wife are immigrating to the U.S. from Germany.
Brrr.
Product Review: LinkSys WRT160N V2 Wireless-N Broadband router (N Ultra RangePlus).
Some minor problems installing it (following the instructions, we kept getting "302 Internal Error"). Configuring it manually worked ok, but we kept having problems with the internet connection. In the end, there seems to be some kind of issue with the router and DNS, as on both the wired computer and the wireless computer, we sporadically but frequently get page load errors... if we keep retrying to reload the page, eventually it works. Sometimes, one website would work and others would not. Sometimes, everything would work fine for a while, and then we'd start getting the page load errors again. This did not happen when connected directly to the modem, or when using the old router (which we've reverted to now again), so it is not a problem with the DNS servers themselves. Tried searching online for a solution to the problem, to no avail. It might be a problem with the latest firmware build, but LinkSys does not have the previous build available for download, so we could not try downgrading to it.
So, thumbs down on this product :(
Although, it does look nifty. Nice sleek shiny black plastic; looks sort of like a stealth bomber in comparison to the old router.