I’m starting to get a little sick of this Linksys router (a BEFWS11). Functionally, it has pretty much all of the features I need; the problem is that it’s horribly unstable in certain cases.
The main source of trouble seems to be the wireless support. If I enable the wireless interface, it’s only a matter of time (anywhere from a few hours to a week or so) before the router just freezes up and has to be power cycled. It’s annoying to have to manually enable it whenever I want to take the iBook away from the desk and have to remember to disable it again afterwards.
It also seems to fall apart under heavy data streaming. I went to a site to watch some streaming music videos, and as soon as each one ended, the router would go dead and have to be rebooted.
The latest firmware updates seem to have reduced the frequency of the problems, but it still happens more often than I like. I can live with it for now, but the next time I buy one I suspect it won’t be the same brand…
I’ve had clients who’ve had problems with the BEFxxx series routers, so this doesn’t surprise me.
However, the WRT54G Kin and I both own seems to be quite flawless. Haven’t had a single problem (well, one big scare, but it was just because I wasn’t aware of what the associated ROM upgrade was actually doing), and it seems to behave as well as the commercial units…