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.
Eric, it is possible to use layer 2 equipment to talk end-to-end world wide? Does every swich have to know every MAC??? Are you on the wacky weed?
Marc once again you whine like a little girl. I have never in my life seen a man cry as much as you do. You can downgrade the firmware. Then again your track record with anything technical makes me wonder. Please for the love of god put the computer and the router down and back away from them. Leave the technical stuff to the big boys.
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As to a hub..
What insecurity on a hub.
Someone has to GET to the hub an plug in to do anything.
Even with the others, unless it has AV hardware included to BETWEEN computers, they are all vulnerable.
I can see where a Hub is to open on the ports, and little controls as to where its going. But no worse then using a SCSI interface with 255 drives.
Switch/router..
I can see this as a way to MAKE customers buy the more expensive Router over a switch..90% of customers REALLY dont need a router.
and AS TO WIRELESS…
AS i SAID IN Previous DV post…
NOT if you like security.
Spend the money and wire a small home..Attic or basement, is very easy to do.
I’ve always stuck to Netgear. Linksys, Belkin, et. all, allways seem to give me trouble. Netgear… rock solid. It costs more, but I think it is worth it.
I’m a D-Link fan and own two products of theirs. But I do have one problem- I am too retarded to get either unit to gather the time correctly. Plus my twisted mind sees gross spelling errors in the firmware. But that’s just my mind.
I use RV082 with the latest firmware and it just works. What’s Marc’s problem he is obviously not able to properly diagnose.
I’m a typical home user with wireless. I live in an apartment and can’t run my own cables, and wife won’t let me run wire from room to room).
I have a Linksys cable modem, and a Netgear wireless router that’s set up properly so packets are secure. If we get a house later, I will be able to run Ethernet cables.
I’m a network administrator.
We only use Cicso gear where we absolutely have to (ie, our WAN providers usually mandate it.)
I was using Cisco 1700 and 1800 series routers for our internet gateways, however configuring IOS to do anything complicated is painful, debugging is horrible, etc.
Their web/java interface is inconsistent, and writes messy, horrible access-lists which are a pain to debug afterwards.
Cisco charge a fortune for a support contract, too; without support you can’t apply the frequent security patches Cisco gear needs.
We’ve now replaced all our AU $5,000+ Cisco 1841 firewalls with AU$400 geode/ALIX systems, running Monowall or Pfsense, which *just works*, including all the stuff you pay extra for with Cisco (eg ipsec VPN, wireless,intrusion detection, and security updates.)
Cisco fans will come back with “but all you need is training, of course you are having problems!” – really? I need training to configure a router? give me a break, I’ve got better things to do. For boring old ethernet routing there are a myriad of better, cheaper solutions.
If I need a router to do all the extra, non-ethernet stuff a Cisco router can do (eg X.25 / ATM /frame relay / serial, VOIP, idsn etc) I’m getting a competitor’s router wherever I can, eg Juniper, etc.
We have a couple of gigabit Linksys switches, which have been fine, although the management interface is crap (only works in IE.)
I’ve also had two WRT54g ADSL routers which have died shortly after we installed them, we now use Draytek and Billion, which both work fine.
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/routers/csbr/rv082/release/notes/RV082_RN_v2-0-0-19-tm.pdf
uh hello peeps it WILL NOT LET YOU DOWNGRADE IF YOU HAVE VERSION 2.0 HARDWARE
I have v1.1 and I can downgrade. also I have to keep doing a hard reset to get throughput faster than 2-5mbps. Cisco agreed and sent me a new rv082 v1.1 under warr. and EXACT same issue on v1.1 as was on v1.0 hardware. plus almost impossible to get both wans recognized. the rv082 is almost a brick compared to my netgear fvs338
there is an issue with the router/ it is not really an issue but you need to configure the rv082. What this guy describe is that he is just connecting a cable modem and this router can do way much than work as a home router.
if the router slows down your throughput change the WAN Settings to MTU manual to say 1500 bytes. This will speed up your router. I have worked with this Version 2.0.0.19 and so far I havent had problems.
probably you need to read more about routing and internet to know how to configure this box as this is not plug and play
RE: Linksys RV082
Disclosure: I’m not a techy, although have just enough knowledge to get myself in TROUBLE!
Wow, was I a SUCKER to buy this model few years back….yeap with my OWN money, not someone else budget funds. I bought based on past experience with Linksys “Name” ability to utilze two seperate connections as back up potential….i just recently dusted it off and attempted to reuse on satelite office, it cuts my web access in half….so I dusted off other router to get office temporaily up and running (i paid Less than $60.00 US) and doubled my speed….