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JunkJunkPosted Jun 30, 2008 16:44 UTC (Mon) by pr1268 (subscriber, #24648)In reply to: Junk by massysett Parent article: Netgear's open wireless-G router for open source hackers
Then I paid three times more for a DLink, and it is rock stable. Hmmm, interesting. I always thought Linksys (at least before Cisco bought them) and Netgear were *much* better than D-Link in terms of reliability. Of course, this was 3+ years ago during my days as an employee at a big-box electronics retailer (we carried all three brands, and guess which brand had a significantly higher return rate than the other two?), and besides, vendor/brand reliability does change over time... Generally speaking, I'm surprised (yet pleased) that Netgear has chosen to open-source their router--it seems that in the past few years, electronics vendors have avoided releasing their wireless hardware with open-source firmware and specs, hiding behind the fear of FCC violations by hackers running the devices out-of-specification (thus violating the license). It'll be interesting to see what Netgear did (and how) to mitigate such possibilities.
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