Linksys used to be a great company before Cisco bought it. I have a Linksys RV082. A couple of months ago Cisco released a firmware “upgrade” that has made the router barely usable. Version 2.0.0.19tm is poison. If you are running an earlier version – DON’T UPGRADE. Once you upgrade you can’t go back to an earlier version.
After upgrading, web access is very slow. If a page has multiple images on it many of the images don’t load. However if the RV082 is removed and I connect directly to the cable modem it works normally. I have been hoping that Cisco would fix the problem but so far nothing.
This I think is an example of what happens sometimes when a big company buys up a good smaller company and then manages to destroy it through stupidity. Linksys has really gone downhill and I’m just not going to buy any more of their products. I’m now looking to replace my broken dual wan router with something that actually works. Cisco sucks.
Older Linksys stuff still works like a charm, especially with 3rd party firmware.
Come on, man…
“an firmware”??
“poisen”??
Spell check, please.
Does the 3rd party firmware work on a RV082?
Marc,
Doesn’t appear to be any 3rd party firmware for it, yet. Good luck.
Agreed 100%.
I switched to buying Netgear after a couple LinkCisco products sucked mightily and I retired them. My old Linksys routers work very will still. One wonders if Cisco screwed up Linksys so they would not compete with their high[er] end stuff.
I know many people who HAVE to upgrade firmware/software as soon as it comes out as if they are getting their next drug fix. I took a quick look at the 2.0.0.19 release notes and it offers zero added features and just some bug fixes. IF IT WORKS DON’T UPDATE!!!
I have a RV082. I upgraded to 2.0.0.19tm about 2 weeks ago and it seems to work just fine. I also still have the option to restart with an older firmware version under System Management – More… >> – Restart. What’s up?
I too have RV082. I upgraded to 2.0.0.19tm months ago and it has worked just fine. VPNs stable. Simple to reboot former firmware and reload former config if need be, but it has run flawlessly.
You may want to reset config to default then start over with clean reconfig.
I haven’t been a big fan of any product that has been released by Linksys since the Cisco acquisition but the WRT54GL is still one of the best low cost routers available especially if you put DD-WRT on it. Overall though it does feel like in the low cost consumer market Linksys is really losing ground on the quality front.
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What is the diff between..
Hub
Router
Switcher
And is there any reason to use 1 over the others.
Myself, I just use a STUPID HUB.. I can plug 5 other machines into it, and NONE have a problem getting to the net.
I can also setup to talk to EACh machine on the hub..
Never had good luck with Linksys routers.. I’ve even had bad luck with incompatibility with their hubs/switches for end-users. This was long before Cisco bought them.
Frankly, I’ve not bothered to see if they’ve improved since. Dlink and Netgear tends to be well placed price wise and I’ve had less hassle with them.
I bought a couple of home routers. One the WIFI was DOA and I took it back and got a exchange (wrong move). The second one completely died in less then 30 minutes. I ended up with a Netgear WNR3500. Won’t buy another linksys or Cisco product ever!
DD-WRT are working on a Linux based open source firmware solution for the Linksys RV082 These are great fun and worth experimenting with, if you have the time.
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Hub – Sends the date to all PCs, relies on them knowing what to receive
Switch – Sends data to ONLY the PC it was intended for
Router – Similar to a switch but also bridges two different networks together (ie WAN to LAN)
In a home environment a ‘stupid’ hub is fine, but if you’re using more than 2-3 PCs and are transferring a lot you have a substantial amount of needlessly duplicated traffic and its just not secure.
Just go get a 5 port gigabit switch, very cheap <$30, way more secure, way faster if you move a lot of data.
#5 Be careful with netgear. They have an absolutely dreadful record when it comes to making sure drivers and firmware is made available to fix issues with older products.
I've just had to get a new network storage device (by linksys as it happens) to replace a unit that Netgear said they were going to upgrade the software for (64bit) but never followed through. The new linksys is working flawlessly.
Never had a problem with dLink, and I have had 4. The two new wifi routers work great. Fast and easy to diagnose and set parameters. Security is not a problem at all.
In my opinion and experience, high end Cisco equipment (~$40,000) isn’t all it’s cracked up to be either.
And my home linksys stuff has always been flakey, since 1991.
I don’t understand why it is so hard to push bits down a wire at 100 Mbps.
A router routes information between IP networks: such as between 192.168.135.102 11.23.45.76
A switch connects different MAC addresses, on the same IP network (192.168.22.x), with a virtual circuit or pipe: such as 00:23:DF:54:23:12 00:13:54:A7:21:BD
A hub takes messages from every wire, connected to the hub, and retransmits (floods) every other wire with those messages, causing collisions and forcing retransmission of data.
A smart Switch Router, like a high end Cisco series, will initally route between networks – but then set up a switched circuit between the end points to relieve the router portion of workload. Pretty cool.
I’m sure someone will want to correct me, Bobbo?
Sorry, “since 2001″, not “since 1991″.
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HUB = broadcasts on all ports, causes a lot of collisions, no traffic control, common with BNC 45ohm coax cable networking, very brain dead.
Switch = “switches” packets to the proper port where it needs to go. Traffic control; doesn’t blindly broadcast like HUBs do. Much less pack collisions, since data is routed one way while other data is sent elsewhere, instead of all into a big pile like HUBs.
Router = A switch that links between two subnets and properly routes data with in a subnet, and between them.
NATs are also Routers, they do the same thing but they link to non-addressable subnets (like 192.168.xxx.xxx or 10.xxx.xxx.xxx), and for that to work properly it has to TRANSLATE the packets from LAN to WAN IP address.
All it does is swap out the LAN IP address of your PC, with the WAN IP address your ISP gives you. The NAT translator also keeps track of those packets so when a reply comes in the NAT knows with device is expecting the reply and swaps IPs on the packets again, and sends it off.
I think i got that right.. and i never took a networking IT class!
Personally I have nothing but problems with Linksys gear and their abominable firmware. Good riddance to bad rubbish.
I have an RVS4000 that hasn’t been too much trouble, and the latest firmware seems to have sped up transfers through it.
HUB: works on the physical layer, every packet is broadcast to every other node on the network
Bridge: separates broadcast domains. Works on layer 2 (MAC layer). Useful back in the day to control Novel broadcast messages
Switch: similar to a bridge, separates broadcast domains. Lower costs over time made it possible to put a bridge on every node. Isolates node-node traffic. Requires device to keep track of node MAC addresses through an ARP table. If a new node joins the network, the first packet sent to it is broadcast to the entire network and the switch will remember the port the node ACK message comes from. Higher end switches can be used in ring architectures to improve reliability and increase network throughput.
Router: works on layer 3, or the Internetwork layer (wikipedia). Separates network domains into subnets (in the case of IP networks). Also referred to as a layer 3 switch. Is capable of intelligently sending packets to destination over the best route possible (“best” being up to the network design criteria). End nodes usually only connect to one router, referred to as a gateway, although in most modern operating systems (and all modern server OS) to “multi-home” connections for redundancy. Other features include network address translation and access control.
All devices (except for the hub) are designed to control network traffic. It is possible in theory to build the Internet entirely using layer 2 switches and Ethernet, but practically not possible due to the various ways we’ve adapted wide area network systems over the years to work with IP networks.