{"id":1637,"date":"2009-01-10T19:15:18","date_gmt":"2009-01-11T00:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/?p=1637"},"modified":"2009-01-10T19:16:22","modified_gmt":"2009-01-11T00:16:22","slug":"making-em-like-they-used-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2009\/01\/10\/making-em-like-they-used-to\/","title":{"rendered":"Making &#8217;em Like They Used To"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it&#8217;s been a little over a week now, and the verdict on the router-reset issue is:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Linksys Wins!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1638\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2009\/01\/10\/making-em-like-they-used-to\/internet\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2009\/01\/internet.png\" data-orig-size=\"128,128\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"internet\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2009\/01\/internet.png\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1638\" title=\"internet\" src=\"http:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2009\/01\/internet.png\" alt=\"internet\" width=\"128\" height=\"128\" \/>Since switching to the Linksys, I&#8217;ve had <em>zero <\/em>router resets and my Internet connection has been rock-solid. My <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozy.com\">Mozy<\/a> online backup has been able to run each night without interruption, and during the day my work (which often involves some IP-based telephony) has been fine as well (nothing more irritating than making an IP-phone call and having your router reset!!).<\/p>\n<p>I still don&#8217;t know what was causing the Netgear router to reset frequently &#8211; but at this point, I really don&#8217;t care. I don&#8217;t know what I&#8217;m going to <em>do<\/em> with the Netgear router, either &#8211; I&#8217;d sell it or give it away, but knowing that it has this problem makes me feel guilty. So I guess&#8230; into the great bit-bucket in the sky it must go.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be sad to see the Netgear go &#8211; I always had a soft spot for Netgear in the past. Their products retained that &#8220;metal enclosure&#8221; look long after Linksys and others had jumped on the &#8220;plastic&#8221; shell bandwagon back when home networking became &#8220;popular.&#8221; And those metal-shelled products were easy to rack mount, with the right brackets, which was always nice.<\/p>\n<p>But now, all home networking products are plastic-shelled, and some (it would seem) are no longer as high-quality as they once were.<\/p>\n<p>As for me &#8211; I&#8217;m just glad my &#8216;net connection is reliable again. Internet, ahoy!<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:smaller\">Icon courtesy of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.everaldo.com\/crystal\/\">Crystal Icon Set<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it&#8217;s been a little over a week now, and the verdict on the router-reset issue is: Linksys Wins! Since switching to the Linksys, I&#8217;ve had zero router resets and my Internet connection has been rock-solid. My Mozy online backup has been able to run each night without interruption, and during the day my work&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2009\/01\/10\/making-em-like-they-used-to\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Making &#8217;em Like They Used To<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[198,35,197,193],"class_list":["post-1637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-hardware","tag-internet","tag-linksys","tag-netgear","entry"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pimUj-qp","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1605,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2009\/01\/01\/they-really-dont-make-em-like-they-used-to\/","url_meta":{"origin":1637,"position":0},"title":"They REALLY Don&#8217;t Make &#8217;em Like They Used To","author":"Keith Survell","date":"January 1, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"This is the latest in a series (previous entries here and here) on my quest to have a rock-solid, reliable Internet Gateway Router. 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