When Linksys released their first cable/DSL router I purchased one right away.
I was on DSL at the time and everything would work well for awhile (between 5 - 15 minutes), then it would start dropping the DSL connection and I'd have to unplug the router and restart it before I could connect again.
I contacted Linksys and the first tech support guy said that the router was over-heating. So I went back to the store to exchange it for another one but had the same problem. I called them again and they said they'd look into the issue and get back to me.
About a week later I got a call from another technician who blamed the problems on my ISP. He assumed I knew nothing about computers and told me that my ISP (Bell Sympatico) was changing my IP address (DHCP) every 5 minutes and that it was causing a problem.
I returned the Linksys cable/dsl router and setup a linux router instead. My linux router has been working fine for about 4 years now.
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I was on DSL at the time and everything would work well for awhile (between 5 - 15 minutes), then it would start dropping the DSL connection and I'd have to unplug the router and restart it before I could connect again.
I contacted Linksys and the first tech support guy said that the router was over-heating. So I went back to the store to exchange it for another one but had the same problem. I called them again and they said they'd look into the issue and get back to me.
About a week later I got a call from another technician who blamed the problems on my ISP. He assumed I knew nothing about computers and told me that my ISP (Bell Sympatico) was changing my IP address (DHCP) every 5 minutes and that it was causing a problem.
I returned the Linksys cable/dsl router and setup a linux router instead. My linux router has been working fine for about 4 years now.