On Tuesday, October 10, 2006 @ 3:30 PM, I typed:
On Tuesday, October 10, 2006 @ 2:41 PM, Felix Miata wrote:
?On 06/10/10 14:16 (GMT-0500) Greg Wallace apparently typed:
I've just lost my router. There was a power outage here and the power went on and off 2 or three times. Apparently, that did in my router, even though it was behind a surge protector.
Common surge supressors are mickey mouse junk that need to be replace every 6 months or so. The surge supression built into a UPS is much more reliable.
It is/was a Linksys RV042. That's the second Linksys router I've lost in the past 5 years. Maybe 2 1/2 years is about average for a router, I have no idea. Anyway, I see a log of negative press on this site regarding Linksys products and I think I'd like to try switching brands. I know there is some other brand that has been highly recommended, but I just can't remember what that brand was. Anyway, could someone give me a router recommendation (along with a good place to make an online purchase, if possible)?
Here in the US, Linksys and DLink routers have 1 year warranties, Netgear has 3 year, and Belkin has 5 year. I only found out about Belkin after my last Netgear purchase, probably from newegg.com (long ago). If I need another, assuming the warranties don't change, it will be Belkin.
Thanks for the recommendation. I believe it was Netgear that I'd heard so much about. The 5 year warranty for the Belkin sounds good. The only thing is, I seem to have heard some negative things about Belkin. I myself had a Belkin keyboard and it went South on my within about a year, as I recall. I can live without the router for a while, so I'm going to go looking on the Web for a good place to but one on-line. Thanks for the info.
Greg Wallace
I went to the Belkin Web Site and it says the warranty on their routers is LIFETIME! Now find that a little hard to believe. There has to be some fine print on that somewhere. Greg Wallace