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tuxchick

Dec 22, 2007
4:50 PM EST 		Netgear used to be considered the junk brand, but I've been buying netgear widgets here and there, and they're been good little performers. And unlike Linksys and D-Link, they don't fall over in shock at the notion of windoze not being the whole world. My Cisco-assimiliated chums smirk at me, but I get a lot more bang for my buck than they do!
tracyanne

Dec 22, 2007
9:47 PM EST 		I find Netgear quite reliable.
ColonelPanik

Dec 23, 2007
4:01 AM EST 		Which ones do you have? Which ones work with Linux?
azerthoth

Dec 23, 2007
8:29 AM EST 		I have had great luck with D-Link personally, after my last Linksys though not being capable of assigning static IP addresses I wont touch one of those again.
Scott_Ruecker

Dec 23, 2007
8:51 AM EST 		I have a Netgear WGR614v6 that has not so much has hiccuped in the nine or so months I have had it.

I have accessed and configured the interface using Debian, SuSE and PCLinuxOS.

At any one time I have a laptop and one or more desktops hooked up and I have never had an issue connecting to it.
wjl

Dec 24, 2007
10:12 PM EST 		Aye - the small little router and switches thingies (I'm talking about those in a blue metal box) are really cool.

Sadly, it's a whole lot of a different story when it comes to wireless gear. I once got one of those "wrong" type of PCMCIA cards made in China - and there was no other option than to run them with ndiswrapper. I was swearing like hell at both Netgear and Broadcom...

Those days are over - that old laptop without built-in wireless is gone like the company who owned it...
ColonelPanik

Dec 25, 2007
7:28 AM EST 		Netgear website, nothing about supporting Linux.

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