Re: bombastic bob Re: Since we're kicking Netgear
"....Netgear....DLink....Linksys...." Well, the best way to avoid the problems of consumer networking gear is simply to avoid consumer networking gear. Standard MO for consultant project teams - setup project office, insist on quality WiFi router bought out of the operating budget (with lifetime professional support), complete budget, then quietly take the quality unit home. I've lost count of the number of contractors' home offices I've seen with "acquired" 3Com, HP or CISCO routers. And printers, scanners, etc. True, the big boys of networking do screw up every now and again (CISCO Catalysts and the dreaded Ping Of Death spring to mind!), but you can usually count on their support delivering a fix pretty quickly and for long after a consumer vendor would drop support for a product.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
