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kirk1233, the likelihood of your family accessing a long URL string is very small. I browse all sort of sites and only manage to find the ones in the UK. It might still be safer to go back to 1.45.7 but if you are willing to stay with us a little longer, perhaps will we be able to increase (or decrease) our confidence in this firmware. Just my 2 cents .

I probably will. Just looking to keep my madden 2004 0 percent disconnect rating

I am thinking of getting a verizon dsl connection to go with my cable connection an an rv082 to share the two, since my cable connection goes out for 20-30 min after every lightning storm. I here that router has suspect firmware as well, and that is one of the reasons I am holding off...

Kirk

kirk1233, I ear you. I was looking at the RV082 as well. However, I can't afford its price for my application. Beside, it is already frustrating as it is getting a working firmware, I will certainly not be paying Linksys to get even more frustration. I ear that the RV082 firmware is very buggy.

Just look at how long it took Linksys to produce BEFSX41 firmware 1.45.7 (more than two years). You may anticipate a similar product maturity time line for the RV082. So perhaps I'll start looking at that unit again in a year and a half from now. How knows, may be its price will be affordable by then as well .

For now, I am concentrating my frustration effort in making the BEFSX41 do what it is supposed to do .

I was lucky, I purchased my BEFX41 when firmware .47 was already out, so the problems are new to me...

Then again I got it to begin with because my befsr41 ver 2 was crashing every few hours. I concinved firmware could have fixed this since others are having similar issues with that unit.

I tried a 430 dollar hotbrick but I could not even get my playstation game to route through it. They even had an engineer look at my config remotly...

Maybe I will look at Zyxel if they don't get a fool proof firmware out soon. I have heard that their equipment is very reliable. I used an integrated adsl modem/router by them when I had covad and it never crashed. I had 60 day+ uptimes with it...

Kirk

this new firmware is good (for now)
the sites come so fast....
yes the long url is still a problem
tracert works fine
in grc and pcflank every port is stealth mode (113 included)
in sticking with this one for now

Just updated, seems faster then 1.50.9, none of the glithes of 1.50.18 seem present, will report back tomorrow after further testing
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