- Linksys Router
- Posted by Alex on October 6th, 2003
I went into Best Buy to purchase a Linksys Router BEFSR41 and they had some
ver. 2 and ver. 3's. The only difference I could see was that ver. 3 said
CISCO on it and had fewer lights. Upon further comparison, the Ver. 3 does
not have the uplink port. Can anyone recommend which of the two versions
would be the best. Does it matter?
Thanks
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- Posted by daytripper on October 6th, 2003
On Sun, 5 Oct 2003 22:15:42 -0400, "Alex" <alexkerr12@aol.com> wrote:
The uplink port is no big deal: they took one of the lan ports and attached it
to the cross-wired uplink port, to spare the user the aggro of buying
cross-over cables in addition to straight drops. If the uplink port was used,
the lan port it was grafted onto could not be used.
ie: no big deal either way
As for version 2 vs version 3, well, I *know* version 2 works ;-) and it's
possible v3 is only out there to show off the new owner's logo...
/daytripper
- Posted by Fabian Fuller on October 15th, 2003
I seem to recall that the newer version can automatically detect whether a
connection is an uplink or not, so they no longer need the extra uplink
port.
"Alex" <alexkerr12@aol.com> wrote in message
news:vo1jmsh9hcet49@corp.supernews.com...
- Posted by Hawk on January 20th, 2004
"Alex" <alexkerr12@aol.com> wrote in message
news:vo1jmsh9hcet49@corp.supernews.com...
It's always hard to know what to buy when a company does this. There are
generally two reasons for releasing a new rev.... a) cost reduced design or
b) functional enhancement. We all desire improved operation. It's not so
good if it's simply for cost reduction because you are either getting
cheaper components, less functionality, or both.
(*>
- Posted by daytripper on January 20th, 2004
On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 09:06:26 -0600, "Hawk" <jedi001@netscape.net> wrote:
In this case, it's most likely much simple: Cisco bought Linksys (fact) and
wanted the product rebadged (reasonable speculation)...
/daytripper (sometimes a cigar is just a cigar)
- Posted by CJT on January 20th, 2004
daytripper wrote:
I think I read somewhere that the version 3 also has autosensing ports
(so the uplink port isn't needed any longer -- any port can act as an
uplink without the need for a crossover cable).
- Posted by mfell2112*NOSPAM*@yahoo.com on January 22nd, 2004
Also, I want the fastest standard which is IIRC 54 super G? I am
running a Linksys right now and it is failing. Linksys doesn't even
have drivers on their web site for my PCI WMP54G version 1.1
networking card. I find that to be very fraustrating especially since
they said they emailed them to me two days ago. Then take into
consideration you are put on hold for 40 minutes to get to tech
support. I say Linksys still sucks.
Mike
Tue, 20 Jan 2004 23:09:20 GMT, CJT <abujlehc@prodigy.net> wrote:
