The past summer I purchased a second wireless router with the thought to upgrade my current home network to the fastest N speed. I was planning to use the older G router I had when traveling or as a backup. Summer passed and one of our family members was asking about what to get for a wireless router. So being the nice guy I am I volunteered to give them our old one. I setup the new router at the house and got them all setup. Good to go right? Wrong… We have had nothing but trouble with the new wireless router. I’ve spent countless sessions with the Linksys support staff trying to get it working, hoping they would just send me a replacement. After each support session it always appears to work for a while, but eventually it stops working again.
At first it was just inconvenient. The iPod touch became more of a music player again and I relied on my new HTC Hero Android phone for checking email, twitter, etc. After I won the Apple TV however, I was more determined than ever to get the wireless up and running reliably again. A few more tech support sessions later I finally just gave in and ran a couple cat5 network cables up to the living room. Needed to do it anyway for our DirecTV receiver and hopefully a new blu-ray player.
It’s not that the Linksys tech support people don’t try. But it’s frustrating to start the process over each time, even though I provide them with my previous case numbers. Hopefully they will just replace it. I came up with a solution in the meantime. Sharing the Internet off our Mac mini (which is completely easy todo with a Mac by the way).