Cisco-Linksys EtherFast Cable/DSL Router with 4-Port 10/100 Switch
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Customer Review: Great, easy tu install and use, also for INTERNATIONAL users
Summary: 5 Stars
Hi,I live in santiago de Chile, here in Southamerica. I have a DSL line from the first local company to offer DSL here. I was affraid this Router had some US specifics on it. But I bought it, I installed it here, and it's PERFECT.. Really incredible. So, if any user outside the US is willing to get this babyu, don't be affraid, as long as it works in Chile, it will work everywhere ! :) I am using it with a NOKIA (M51) machine for DSL, my phone company here in Chile is www.manquehue.net
PROS: ----- - Very easy to setup. - Transparent use and setup for NON-Technology guys - Fits vertically or horizontally (important for space savers) - Great performance without gliches so far nor drops. - Firmware upgradable, great for new protocols to update - Great Firewall, I have run many test's like the one from Symantec or CNet, and my system is very secure agains hacker attacks - Web based configuration - REAL out-of-the-box solution
CONS: ---- - All configuration menues and manuals in English (important to consider for international customers) - Does not include a basic CAT5 cable, you have to buy it by yourself. - Status LEDs don't give a good feedback on what is going on. - Since it has web based configuration, it requires MS Internet Explorer to use it, this is not good for users who use browsers like Opera or other not so well known software.
BOTTOM LINE I pay 1 Internet broadband connection, and I browse the web in my home with 3 compputers at the same time AND I have a router/switch at home... What else could you ask for US$120 ??
regards, Alexander Schek
Customer Review: My PC and my Mac now share high-speed Internet access!
Summary: 5 Stars
We have a PC upstairs, which is our primary computer, and a Mac downstairs in the tv room. I wanted both to be able to share our broadband Internet service. I looked at several routers, both wired and wireless. It came down to the Linksys (wired version) and SMC Barricade Wireless. I kept coming back to Linksys because a friend owns one and raves about it. Besides the fact that it looks really cool, it almost took me longer to get it out of the box than it did to set it up. No kidding! Using the QuickStart guide, I was up and running in less than ten minutes. You hook up the necessary cables, restart your computer, log-in to the Linksys website to configure your router, restart your computer again, and you're good to go.
I wasn't as optimistic about setting up my Power Mac G3. However, I was pleasantly surprised and it took me all of about five minutes before I was doing some high-speed surfing on that machine as well. Fortunately, my Mac has an Ethernet port so it was just a matter of attaching the CAT-5 cable from there to the Linksys and setting the TCP/IP control panel to the Ethernet and DHCP options. I saved my configuration, opened up my browser and spent the next two hours high-speed surfing with no problems.
I have no problem recommending the Linksys, especially for its ease of setup on a PC and Mac network. While I would have preferred a wireless setup, they've received mixed reviews and I was concerned about Mac compatibility. After seeing how well my Mac performs with this Linksys, I'm ready to make ours a wired household!
Customer Review: Best. Product. Ever!
Summary: 5 Stars
If you want to network your computers to share files and surf the net... If you don't have much time and money... If you're afraid to ask your geek friends for help, then this product is for you! I purchased this device around November of 2000, despite my super-geeky friend mocking me and putting me down and criticizing my "foolish purchase".I would say this is my only time I'm ever right, and I've been using the Linksys ever since. Why change proxy server software every few months and/or face constant upgrades (not to mention the time spent). Why keep the "proxy server/internet" computer on 24/7? With this Linksys you only pay for the device and hook up to as many computers as you like (without licensing restrictions). You can turn on/off any computer as you please, it won't affect the internet sharing. Plug in a printer with a built-in network card and you've got a dedicated network printer. What genius! Great for protecting your computer against outside attackers with a built-in firewall protection. Easy to use and configure with the browser.
If you got broadband, don't [pay] extra for each computer hook-up. The secret is to get one connection and share it all Through Your Linksys Router. (be wary though some ISPs don't give support for LAN setups)
Sure I should use wireless... Sure I've gotten spoiled using this device rather than learning how to setup a DHCP/NAT/proxy server and firewall, but who cares? As long as it works, it works. If it ain't broke why fix it? I give this product a 5 star rating! * * * * *
Customer Review: A great purchase
Summary: 5 Stars
I picked up this unit to allow my wife and I to both play "EverQuest" at the same time over our one DSL connection. We'd previously been using a cheap Ethernet hub (much cheaper: about a quarter of the price) and SpoonProxy software. And it worked. Mostly. For many things. When one of the computers wasn't doing something too processor-intensive. And the other computer could never do RealAudio, Java, most Flash or programs like Instant Messenger or "Diablo II"'s Battle.net service.But I'd been told that, despite not being able to play any online gaming services on one of the computers with my Ethernet hub, the LinkSys router would solve all that. So I put down the money, opened it up, and within an hour -- most of which was spent undoing the previous overly complicated set-up -- both machines were online.
Like many of the reviewers here, I noticed a performance improvement, but I was more pleased by something that few people seem to be focussing on here: We also got firewall protection by using this. My wife's computer had previously been invaded by an outside computer, somewhere in Eastern Europe. Nothing sinister had happened to it, but the fact that a personal computer with an always-on DSL connection had been broken into was fairly frightening. Now we're safe, secure (or much more secure, anyway) and we're both able to play "EverQuest" at the same time.
I'm thrilled we picked this up, and recommend it for anyone sharing a DSL line with multiple computers. It was easy to set up and worth every penny.
Customer Review: Works great -- and DOES let you host a site
Summary: 5 Stars
I used one of these for a year or so, before giving it to my mother when I upgraded to the wireless version; it's worked fine the whole time, and now my very non-technical parents have a home network.To respond specifically to the comment titled "Works great -- as long as you dont host anything" from May 9, 2002: this router does indeed support multiple computers while enabling you to host a web site; mine's been doing exactly that for a year or so. The documentation states that you have to disable DHCP to enable port forwarding, but I've found this to be incorrect: you can still forward to a specific local IP address, if you've given that particular machine a static IP. I just picked a particular address for my Linux server (e.g. 192.168.0.100), and forward port 80 to it; the other machines can still get their addresses via DHCP. Even if it were true that you had to disable DHCP to do port forwarding, this doesn't mean you can't support multiple machines - you can always assign static IP addresses to your machines. This is easy: just make them up, as long as they're in the local subnet range (by default, 192.168.0.xx, where xx is from 1 to 255 - I suggest starting at 100 to avoid conflict with DHCP), and set that address in your computer's network settings. Pick different ones for each computer, of course.
I suspect that the "you must disable DHCP" business has more to do with keeping people from getting themselves in trouble by setting up port forwarding to dynamically assigned addresses.