Comments on: Router redux http://pcweenies.net/2008/01/03/router-redux/ New tech comics updated every M-W-F, or the next one's FREE! Sat, 11 Oct 2008 07:30:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: krishna http://pcweenies.net/2008/01/03/router-redux/#comment-17 krishna Fri, 04 Jan 2008 01:14:40 +0000 http://pcweenies.net/2008/01/03/router-redux/#comment-17 I was actually considering an Apple Airport Extreme - up until today actually. I went to the Apple Store and held one in my hands. Then I walked over to one of the iMacs on display and read the reviews on Apple's own Store site. Lots of negative comments. That, and the price - spooked me from getting the Airport Extreme. Glad to hear that yours is rock solid though, John! I was actually considering an Apple Airport Extreme - up until today actually. I went to the Apple Store and held one in my hands. Then I walked over to one of the iMacs on display and read the reviews on Apple’s own Store site. Lots of negative comments. That, and the price - spooked me from getting the Airport Extreme. Glad to hear that yours is rock solid though, John!

]]> By: John Muir http://pcweenies.net/2008/01/03/router-redux/#comment-16 John Muir Thu, 03 Jan 2008 23:22:43 +0000 http://pcweenies.net/2008/01/03/router-redux/#comment-16 Apple's own networking kit is just as well designed and hassle free as they'd have you believe. I sold a friend my 2004 Airport Express which is still working just fine with his Leopard MacBook today, upgraded to 802.11n with an Airport Extreme, and impressed my brother enough with it on sight for Apple to score another sale in days. Never had one glitch in going on four years of uptime. And the software interface is in another zone, compared to even the better 192.168.1.1 UI's out there. Won Ars Technica's 802.11n shootout too. http://arstechnica.com/reviews/hardware/airport-n.ars/4 I know your pain from my own cheapskating days in 2002-2004 when we went through at least 4 routers. Never again. Apple’s own networking kit is just as well designed and hassle free as they’d have you believe. I sold a friend my 2004 Airport Express which is still working just fine with his Leopard MacBook today, upgraded to 802.11n with an Airport Extreme, and impressed my brother enough with it on sight for Apple to score another sale in days.

Never had one glitch in going on four years of uptime. And the software interface is in another zone, compared to even the better 192.168.1.1 UI’s out there.

Won Ars Technica’s 802.11n shootout too.
http://arstechnica.com/reviews/hardware/airport-n.ars/4

I know your pain from my own cheapskating days in 2002-2004 when we went through at least 4 routers. Never again.

]]> By: Astaryth http://pcweenies.net/2008/01/03/router-redux/#comment-15 Astaryth Thu, 03 Jan 2008 22:53:24 +0000 http://pcweenies.net/2008/01/03/router-redux/#comment-15 Netgear's customer service rocks also if you ever need to call them! We had a glitch with our router recently and after playing with everything I could think of, going online and seeing if I could find someone else with the problem, I finally broke down and called customer support. Remembering first off that this router was bought in the summer of 2004, so it is almost 4 years old. The first lady was awesomely polite, and when she couldn't help me she sent me to her supervisor who was even -more- awesome. Turned out that for some reason the 'automatic' detection of the IP address wasn't working. He walked me thru setting up a manual one (including a drop to DOS using the run command LOL) and had me back up and running with both laptops. I was impressed as my system is a little unusual in that we don't keep a computer hooked up to the router.... we have 2 laptops (currently 3, but that's a long story!) that only connect wirelessly. He never even blinked! My current system is a 'g', but I've been watching the 'n' specs, and as soon as they are finalized I think I will upgrade. And I will definitely be upgrading to a new Netgear router!! Netgear’s customer service rocks also if you ever need to call them! We had a glitch with our router recently and after playing with everything I could think of, going online and seeing if I could find someone else with the problem, I finally broke down and called customer support. Remembering first off that this router was bought in the summer of 2004, so it is almost 4 years old.

The first lady was awesomely polite, and when she couldn’t help me she sent me to her supervisor who was even -more- awesome. Turned out that for some reason the ‘automatic’ detection of the IP address wasn’t working. He walked me thru setting up a manual one (including a drop to DOS using the run command LOL) and had me back up and running with both laptops. I was impressed as my system is a little unusual in that we don’t keep a computer hooked up to the router…. we have 2 laptops (currently 3, but that’s a long story!) that only connect wirelessly. He never even blinked!

My current system is a ‘g’, but I’ve been watching the ‘n’ specs, and as soon as they are finalized I think I will upgrade. And I will definitely be upgrading to a new Netgear router!!

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