Comments on: Linksys Sucks

By: gRazzia

gRazzia — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 06:42:01 +0000

wELLz,
HoPe tHat eVeryOne actually knOws wHat tHey aRe PoSting!

i WoULd stiLL say,
bEin’ a tEch suPpoRt rEp iS rEaLLy a Nice jOb.

i oWeiz LoVe to bE a LinksyS tEch.

i tHank ALL the cUstomers wHo knoWs hOw to FolloW iNstRuctions and kNows wHat tHey’re dOing!

ciAo!

By: Pissed off

Pissed off — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 07:02:51 +0000

Moral of the story is…I had to figure it out for myself…because God help me should my so called support be of any help whatsoever…which they WERE NOT. This is what happens when you pay foreigners the equivalent of 200 dollars a month…which in their country equates to riches…the game is up. Stop exploiting these people and stop fucking Americans over at the same time. We do not pay Indian prices for our goods…so we should not be treated to this level of disservice.

By: Pissed off

Pissed off — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 06:51:58 +0000

Tonight I come home…my Linksys wireless router had decided today was a good day to die. Fine. I go to Bestbuy…buy a linksys WAP54G…86 dollars later…I’m on the phone…Why am I on the phone? Because the piece of shit I bought does not FUCKING work the way it says it should. I proceed to call tech support…and…I get hung up on…not once…not twice…not three times…but 4 FUCKING TIMES. 5TH time…I finally get someone on the fucking phone…a fucking Indian douche bag who knows a little bit less than the God Damned fuckers on my help desk at work…who come from the same fucking place. So then…this piece of shit cocksucker proceeds to try and read from the script with me…all he is trained to do like the fucking monkey he is. 2 hours of my life wasted…and I am told “I can not connect to the internet” this way. Obviously he was mistaken…as you can see. This is HORSESHIT. WHY THE FUCK DO I PAY AMERICAN DOLLARS for my product and get treated to subhuman support like this. FUCK YOU LINKSYS.

By: Pissed off

Pissed off — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 06:35:03 +0000

I have had ENOUGH OF THIS.

By: rasdin

rasdin — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 03:00:21 +0000

I purchased a WRVS4400N about a year ago. It is considered a business product so I thought it would be more reliable. So I set it up with wep 64 and it has run great until last week. I have setup hundreds of wireless products in the last few years, so I seen just about every different kind there is. About 2 weeks ago I built a laptop with wireless N. Since wireless N is not standardized yet, I tried to connect to the linksys router and it worked great, but in G mode. After reading several web pages with similar results, the answer was no security. Now N works great. That leaves mac address control. So, I turn off security, and try to setup mac address control. This is when you run into trouble with vista. Linksys, routers are the worst for mac address control. You have to be connected to the network before their Wireless Client List button works. Great, I have to go and find every mac address on every PC and enter them in manually. What a pain in the ass. Now all the PCs are up and running. The only problem is my Linksys wireless G print server. This works with security or nothing. There is no mac address control selection in the print server. You think Linksys would make two of their units more compatible with each other. NOT. In the end, I added the wireless print server, by loading a utility on a xp machine to tell me the mac address of the print server, so I could enter it in the router. Then you have to set up the printer, and enter the mac address of the print server under a fixed ip address, but you have to use the printer name as the server name, under the router add fixed mac address, ip address, and name. Again a pain. After over two hours to get this to work, I though there must be a better way. So I look up the router and read about the new firmware differences. One of the new features was to do with mac address control, so I flashed the unit to the latest version. MY HUGE mistake was not downloading the original version first. Now the router craps out every 24 hours. I have to hold the reset button in for 30 seconds to get it to work again. Guess what, there goes all the mac addresses you entered. The router worked great, for 365 days, never had any issues, until I flashed it. Now for a week, I have been reseting it every day. So I called tech support, and asked them to email me the starter firmware and they said they could not do it. See the problem when you ship your techsupport offshore? You cant even trust them to send you a flash, they are not qualified to email you a firmware update, so they tell you that someone from the head office will call in the next day or two to go over the issue. I wont go into the phone support call, as that was about 2 hrs long, and I knew 10x what the guy on the phone did.

You know lastly, they dont put the serial # of the unit on the web log in area. How stupid. You have to go pickup the unit and read #2 font pitch sized writing in order to talk to the useless tech support person at linksys. I tried looking up issues with this router in google, and found that thousands of people have similar results. After the flash, the unit does not connect after 24 hours. Go figure. Linksys would rather send you a replacement unit for RMA, than put the flash up that could resolve at least some issues.

Linksys does suck. Never again.

By: spiritbear928

spiritbear928 — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 19:36:32 +0000

OK heres the problem. Two words CONSUMER GRADE. Consumer grade = sucks

People want cheap, easy and good. Networks arent meant to be easy and cheap=crap. Consumers demand cheap and they get crap and whine.

If you want something good spend the $600 and buy a Cisco. Otherwise deal with the fact you bought mass produced consumer grade cheap crap that may work but wont work like a $600 Cisco

I think Linksys is the best of the crap but its all crap

By: FiZZY

FiZZY — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 04:02:36 +0000

linksys home/office routers suck.

First of all I’m not a noob, I perfectly know how to configure routers…..

- I had a BEFSX41, it worked fine for a year or so, then it dropped the connection/resets every 30 sec.. it was not a firmware problem. I dumped it in the trashcan.

- I have a BEFSR81, worked for some time, then the WAN PORT died. Can only use it as a switch.

-The same happened with BEFW11S4 wireless B router, the WAN PORT died. Now it only works as an Access Point.

- I still have an old BEFSR41 that is still working fine, but i’m pretty sure it’ll soon die.

All things considered, Linksys sucks period.

By: king of kings

king of kings — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 06:59:27 +0000

Ha Ha Ha…..I really pitty the people who feel that linksys sucks….I feel that the Linksys tech support is the best in the world….Only because you dont know to work with these dam products that does not mean that Linksys or Indian techs sucks…They also might be feeling the same for US as well….

By: PFM

PFM — Tue, 13 May 2008 21:20:07 +0000

I too have had the experience with Linksys. The router I had always had piss poor performance, dropped connections etc. and it stopped working altogether one day after the warrenty expired and Linksys wanted more money to tell me how to fix it, I reconfigured the whole thing from scratch weeks ago and got it working now it just died and they want more cash……their tech support could not keep up with me and went threw the re-start your system etc. stuff mentioned above….truly frustrating. I bought D-Link and wireless has never been better or faster. Linksys sucks!

By: bull shit ameri****

bull shit ameri**** — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 06:04:51 +0000

>[00:00:00] Hi, my name is Ma Rowena (11827). How may I help you?
>[00:01:03] Jim: Okay, I’m not too sure how to explain this situation… to put it lightly, melted cheese is all over my router.
>[00:01:17] Ma Rowena (11827): Okay.
>[00:01:38] Jim: Now, It seemed to function quite well untill the dog realized this…
>[00:02:04] Ma Rowena (11827): Yes?
>[00:02:19] Jim: Now my router seems to be partially consumed.
>[00:02:34] Jim: How does my warrenty respond to this?
>[00:02:59] Ma Rowena (11827): What do you mean partially consumed?
>[00:03:23] Jim: My dog ate my router… most of it that is.
>[00:03:45] Ma Rowena (11827): I see.
>[00:04:20] Ma Rowena (11827): Can you hold on for 5 minutes? I’ll just verify this one with my Immediate Superior.
>[00:04:51] Jim: It also smells very bad. I am in doubt of its functionality.
>[00:05:53] Jim: Also, can I get some information on what effects this may have on my dog?
>[00:06:25] Ma Rowena (11827): I’m sorry, but what do you mean?
>[00:08:05] Jim: My router was covered in melted cheese for reasons I do not care to tell. My dog saw this and decided that she likes cheese. The plastic router that the cheese covered did not seem to bother her and the has eaten a great deal of the router. I believe she was very hungry.
>[00:09:08] Ma Rowena (11827): I see.
>[00:09:38] Ma Rowena (11827): But unfortunately, in that case, the device is no longer covered by the warranty.
>[00:10:16] Jim: Hm… what if I ate the router instead of the dog. Would it be covered then?
>[00:10:39] Ma Rowena (11827): Still not covered. Since it is not the router that fails to work.
>[00:12:17] Jim: What if my dog dies? Don’t you show any remorse?
>[00:12:53] Ma Rowena (11827): I’m sorry Jim, but it is no longer the fault of our device.
>[00:14:34] Jim: Why not? I believe your device should be eatable! People should have the right to eat their routers.
>[00:15:38] Jim: I’m sure D-Link is designing a router that you can eat. How do you expect to compete with that?
>[00:15:41] Ma Rowena (11827): What do you mean? Of course the router is not edible. The router is not a food, it is a networking device.
>[00:16:56] Jim: Why is that not listed on the box? Or in the instruction manual even.
>[00:17:23] Jim: Why is it not printed on the router in bold red letters “Do not eat!”
>[00:17:48] Ma Rowena (11827): Of course you cannot eat the router.
>[00:18:05] Jim: Dogs don’t know that…
>[00:18:20] Jim: Especially when it is covered in cheese.
>[00:18:20] Ma Rowena (11827): But you know that. Can the dog read that?
>[00:18:42] Ma Rowena (11827): It is already not our fault why it is covered by cheese.
>[00:19:22] Jim: What about blind people? If I was a starving blind person and found a “network device” covered in cheese I would be tempted…
>[00:20:04] Ma Rowena (11827): Do you that a thing as hard as that is a food?
>[00:20:48] Jim: I’m not a very good cook, I can make jello that’s harder than that.
>[00:21:42] Ma Rowena (11827): I’m sorry Jim, but I already inform you, it is not our router that fails, that is why it is not covered by the warranty. You should watch your dog then.
>[00:22:43] Ma Rowena (11827): Do you have other Linksys device I can assist you with?
>[00:23:07] Jim: What else do you guys make?
>[00:23:37] Ma Rowena (11827): We do networking devices.
>[00:23:46] Jim: Phones?
>[00:24:40] Ma Rowena (11827): May I know if you have any other concern with a Linksys device?
>[00:26:11] Jim: Let me look around my house.
>[00:26:34] Ma Rowena (11827): Okay.
>[00:27:08] Jim: Would my dog now be considered a Linksys device?
>[00:27:32] Jim: Is it going to start brodcasting wifi signals?
>[00:27:53] Ma Rowena (11827): I think you can answer your own question.
>[00:28:24] Jim: So what your saying is I can walk my dog and surf the web with my PSP at the same time?
>[00:29:16] Ma Rowena (11827): I’m sorry, but is there any other Linksys device there that you have concerns with?
>[00:29:23] Jim: I have another question.
>[00:29:41] Ma Rowena (11827): Go ahead.
>[00:30:49] Jim: If my router was defective and my dog ate it (but it still remained in the same condition) and I brought my dog to you. Would you service it?
>[00:31:45] Ma Rowena (11827): No. We need the device itself.
>[00:32:22] Jim: But that’s the same as sending the device in a box.
>[00:33:08] Ma Rowena (11827): But your dog is not our product.
>[00:34:31] Jim: What if a Linksys employee ate it? Would it be your product then?
>[00:35:16] Ma Rowena O. Cabungcal: No.
>[00:36:16] Ma Rowena O. Cabungcal: I think Jim, that you don’t have any other technical concern with a Linksys device.
>[00:37:27] Ma Rowena O. Cabungcal: If you have no further questions, feel free to exit this Chat Session.
>[00:38:30] Jim: Fine… half eaten routers covered in cheese sell for a lot on ebay.
>[00:39:34] Jim: I’m naming my next dog Linksys.
>[00:39:46] Ma Rowena O. Cabungcal: If you have no further technical questions, this session will expire after 5 minutes. Thank you for your cooperation!
>[00:40:55] Jim: This made me really hungry…
>[00:41:45] Jim: I guess I’ll take my dog to the vet. I’m sure he will be more understanding.
>[00:42:12] Jim: Goodbye.
>[00:42:37] ***** Jim Has Disconnected
>[00:42:47] ***** Ma Rowena O. Cabungcal Has Disconnected
Please go through this you fuc***americans and decide your IQ level,fuc**** americans replying on france and british money and got them by begging from them.