Linksys → Re: New Firmware - 1.44

Welcome to the wonderful world of Linksys tech support - they've completely stopped replying to my emails. I asked for information regarding firmware upgrades for the BEFW11S4 v1 router and was told the new firmware was in testing. Not two days later on this forum I saw a message from a linksys tech saying that development on that router had been suspended and no new firmware was in the works. I've now written and asked four times for clarification and they just ignore me each time.

I will *NEVER* buy Linksys gear again. It's crap and it has crap support.

I don't disagree that Linksys gear is crap, but compared to the other crap available, it's the best of the crap...

What do you expect from a sub-$100 device? You get what you pay for more often than not, especially when you pay little.

How about this little story:

I have a friend with an SMC Barricade; the thing BY DEFAULT disables passive FTP connections (translates the 'PASV' message to 'P@SW' which most FTP servers will refuse...). THIS IS BY DESIGN!...

Well, I am sorry you feel like this about Linksys... I feel exactly like thise about SMC.
I have (now sitting and collecting dust) a SMC7004VBR. First thing when I was calling with constant throughput problems on OOL (7-8 Mbit/s instead of 10Mbit/s)the support guy wanted to make me believe is it has a 10Mbit WAN port (yeah right....). Never solved my problem....

I think the support with all of them is pretty much crap. It's just the way it is. If I buy a 1000+$ Cisco I can expect much more... But would I? No....
You get what you pay for...

I didn't need support with my BEFSX41 yet and its running smoooooooth....