[OT] BEFSR41 = bad (was: Re: DSL support)

[Danny MacMillan]

On Mon, Nov 08, 2004 at 02:27:21AM -0700, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Danny MacMillan [mailto:flowers at users.sourceforge.net]
> > Sent: Sunday, November 07, 2004 9:40 PM
>
> ...
> 
> > It
> > replaced a 3 year old Hawking Technology PN9245F that worked like a
> > champ, aside from a couple of bad ports.
> >
> 
> Well, I guess the lesson here is if the Hawking Tech product worked well,
> and you didn't reward Hawking for making a solid product by buying another
> one from them, you kind of got what you deserved, don't you think? :-)

<laugh>  That's one way of looking at it, but I needed all ports working.
Besides, the BEFSR41 is what all the cool kids were buying, and looks much
snazzier on my desktop to boot, and didn't cost as much.  It's only
apparent failing is an inability to route packets when I want them routed.
That's one negative and three positives.  So I think I made a shrewd
purchase decision.  :)

Thanks for the advice in re: RMA-ing the router; I never considered that.
Usually components either fail out of the box or wait until the warranty
period is over.

> I myself most recently bought a Hawking wireless bridge for my father.
> It was a bit odd to setup, as the firmware had to be flashed from
> "access point firmware" to "bridging firmware" and no mention of this
> was made in the manual.  But it has worked great since.  I am glad to
> hear that your Hawking lasted 3 years, it gives me some hope that the
> one I got for my father will also.

It's still working; I gave it to a less technical fried of mine who only
needs one port working on the LAN side to shield her Windows computer from
the evil badness of the internet.

-- 
Danny