Alright I not sure if I just purchased a bad device but since I have owned this thing its one issue or another. I only use it in my home and I really couldn’t picture using this thing in a small business as it is sold. Lets start off with the box was branded as a Linksys device even though Cisco owns Linksys now it was a Linksys device so I am thinking great a home/small office device with gig ethernet ports in it. Like most routers, wifi, or network devices for the house the first thing I always did was went for the updates for the firmware. This was where I get to the Linksys website and they now send me to the Cisco site saying support has been moved there.
So I get to the Cisco site and no updates were available for my downloads. It was like they didn’t even have any information on it at all. Alright well not a big deal the device worked I just wanted to upgrade it before getting started. What seemed to be several months later Cisco finally released a firmware upgrade on their site for the device. This could be a bit of a crazy thing to figure out for the typical user.
So moving on well finally back in December I was able to download their newest update of firmware for the device. Version 2.0.8 seems to be a version that has thoroughly screwed up my device. The wireless portion of the device will die off throughout the day and I have to reboot it. But its not just the wireless if you just wait the device itself will totally lock up then you will not even be able to reload it from the web interface. I think I reboot this device at least once a day. Try doing that while working at home over a crappy IPSEC VPN that doesn’t understand these failures so easily.
Tags: home networking, Networking, suck, wireless