On Routers, Switches, and Hubs.

The LinkSYS router, BEFW11S4, is a disgusting piece of crap. I, and apparently many others, have no idea the product managed to pass through the QC let alone the testing phase. It's supposed to be such a good company. Talk about regressing technologically.

This is the router that comes with the Starhub package.
Talk about spreading problems thru popular means.

I did manage to fix some other problems and I managed to finally get full blazing download speeds of up to 18500++Kbps. But the main problem is the router keeps on hanging. It just freezes up. It becomes like it's not there. No Firmware update seems to have fixed it.
Sometimes even when it's "working" it refuses to distribute an IP addy. The best part was that after installing an update, "recommended" by that Filipino twit who was a nut-of-a-customer-service-agent, all the computers refused to appear the the DHCP Client table. Apparently, other people in other countries also face this problem, the customer service part too.

According to some people, the lousy and snobbish and contradictory Linksys tech support people said that changing the MTU will work. Theoretically, it should lower the chances of the thing hanging but "lowering it is not fixing it", as one guy noted. Absolutely crappy.

Linksys, you blew your chances with me. You won't see me ever again. Anybody fancy SMC or USRobotics?

My other US Robotics router seems to have lost it's ability to do anything other than be a hub. Odd considering that I didn't change anything.

I'm now surviving on that dumb faulty router and a linked switch.

Itchy balls to the Idiot who let that product even enter the mainstream market. Rotten balls to the Jackass that promoted it, let it stay in the market, and allowed it to continue being produced, even till today.

FusionStream, out.