koitsu
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join:2002-07-16
Mountain View, CA
| Not impressed, for an awkward reason.
I'm not impressed by this press release. Why? Because numerous consumer router vendors (D-Link, Netgear, Linksys, SMC, and 3Com) have all released products which have unreliable IP stacks and downright absurd firmware bugs in them. If you think I've an axe to grind, spend 15 minutes visiting the forums here -- you'll find major bugs in all of those vendors' consumer products.
The best of the bunch so far is the Linksys WRT54GL, which runs Linux -- sporting an IP stack that is at least guaranteed to be 10x more reliable than something developed off-shores by some Taiwanese company whose name you cannot even pronounce (Tian Shui Hui Zhou, blah blah blah)).
If these vendors cannot even implement IP correctly, nor provide a functional NAT stack, then what makes you think BitTorrent is going to work reliably?
Thus, I'll pass -- consumer routers are too "black-box", and when it comes to BitTorrent, I like to know as many details about the session as I can (which is why I use uTorrent :P).
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Making life hard for others since 1977. |
