[NBLUG/talk] Recommendations for a wireless router?

[David Rosenstrauch]

On 03/23/2010 12:40 PM, Lincoln Peters wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 8:19 AM, David Rosenstrauch<darose at darose.net>  wrote:
>> I've been using a Netgear WNR3500 for quite a while, and it's been very
>> solid:
>>
>> http://www.netgear.com/Products/RoutersandGateways/WirelessNRoutersandGateways/WNR3500.aspx
>>
>> Several D-Link's I had before that were not nearly as reliable.
>
> I think I actually bought a refurbished NetGear of that particular
> variety last month from NewEgg and tried to set them up with it.  The
> browser-based interface consistently crashed pretty much any time I
> tried to do anything, making it impossible to set up, and NetGear tech
> support was completely worthless (at least with respect to refurbished
> equipment).  I ended up returning it less than a week later.
>
> Maybe the problems I was having were due to the fact that it was refurbished?

No idea what your problem was.  Personally I never buy refurbished 
anything though.

I've never had the browser interface on the router crash on me though. 
Not even once.  (And yes, I generally access it from a Linux browser.)

DR