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I had 3 of the same Linksys boxes, had exactly the same problems, moved to UniFi stuff and couldn't be happier. I've got two APs in the main house, one in the b

I had 3 of the same Linksys boxes, had exactly the same problems, moved to UniFi stuff and couldn't be happier. I've got two APs in the main house, one in the barn (man cave, exercise room), and still have one Linksys in the guest house. Which gets power cycled when I need it. I really don't get how Linksys screwed the pooch, but they did. $300 AP that doesn't work. Edit: one config that made them work better for me was to change some setting from maximum speed to maximum distance, without that the connection was pretty short range. The lower speed is still faster than my internet connection so I'm fine with it.

flyinghamster 10y ago
I've had cold feet about Linksys ever since Belkin acquired them.* I'm still running a couple of refurbished D-Link DIR825-C1 units (dual-band N300) with DD-WRT on both, and they work beautifully. I don't see any great need at this time to switch to 802.11ac. Since I bought them specifically to run DD-WRT, reflashing them wasn't a big deal for me, though it wasn't quite as easy to do as reflashing a classic WRT54G. * Belkin has been on my "don't buy anything of theirs except cables, and even then look for an alternative" list ever since their 2003 router spam fiasco. Sure, they backed off, but the fact that they even considered doing such a thing in the first place is asinine. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/11/07/help_my_belkin_router/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/11/07/help_my_belkin_route... (sorry for the Reg link, they weren't that bad in that era)