Why always LinkSys or NetGear routers?

[Jon P. Inghram]

Just curious, but why doesn't anyone use 3com stuff? Or is it just that the people with the 3com equipment never have any problems and thus never bring attention to themselves?

[Brian R.]

I use Zyxel exclusively. Linksys router I owned was a POS.

[UtwigMU]

I got LevelOne for testing.

Why not 3COM, beacause it costs about 3-times as much.

http://www.level1.com/products3.php?sklop=8&id=560145

[KvHagedorn]

I had a 3com 10/100 hub I sold to the office when i got my netgear router/switch. Never had a problem with it, except I couldn't stack stuff on top of it because of the domelike top.

[K6-III]

My DLink router works just fine....and they have some really kickass support....

[Helevitia]

Because I work for Cisco and Linksys is a subsidiary of Cisco

[Jon P. Inghram]

Ok, was just wondering why people use brands that are so notorious for problems. Figured it was just a price issue.

[TnT]

The Linksys router was $80 when I got it 4 years ago and it hasn't given me problems until now.

[Marshmallowman]

Anyone have a dlink 804?

[Chrono_Wanderer]

just curious: did linksys improved after being acquired by Cisco?

Well, Linksys is always not bad

[MultimediaMan]

I seem to recall 3COM NICs having had well-documented issues with Cable Modems and Auto-Negotiation in general.

I've had really good experiences with Linksys in general...I did have some problems with one of their NICs not liking a particular configuration in Windows 98, but Win2K, and WinXP have been absolutely trouble free.

With Linux, Linksys cards generally work without any problems, but some of my older linkys cards hate the latest DEC driver. I've had to revert to an older module to get them to work.

[Dr Mordrid]

I've also had great luck with Linksys hardware...enough so that all my NIC's are LNE100TX's and the Router/Switch/NAT are by them. NO troubles at all.

Dr. Mordrid

[High_Jumbllama]

I bought a Linksys when I first set up my broadband. I've never had a problem with either the router BEFSR41 or the NICs LNE100TX v.5.

One switch had one bad port but that is the only problem.

[gt40]

I use Linksys - never had any problems whatsoever.

[Kurt]

@Jon P. Inghram: 3com has a cheap "router", the OfficeConnect Cable/DSL Gateway. I bought several for less than €40. I can't say I'm particularly impressed with the config software but I haven't had problems so far (2 months now).