This product arrived on time but it’s NOT UK Compliant. The power socket does not fit ANY UK socket, I think its Russian! Its completely and utterely useless….NOT HAPPY!
Bought to replace a superb d-link 4-port that finally died . As all four ports of the d-link had been filled I thought I’d add some more, so when I found this at a good price in marketplace I snapped it up.
It works ‘out of the box’ with Vista, XP and Linux for basic stuff, as well as with an existing d-link switch, without any speed issues (which I have seen reported by others), but there are potential problems!
Unless you bypass DHCP (potentially an important requirement for network novices) and assign IP numbers to hardware yourself, port forwarding can be a real nuisance. The IP numbers shuffle around the hardware every time you switch on, and whilst this may be how DHCP ‘works’, the d-link always assigned the same IP to the same MAC so that you knew who/what was where for forwarding.
This also gave problems in Linux for my networked HP printer as it’s IP had to be defined when the driver was installed, meaning every time I switched off, my printer disappeared (windows handled these IP changes easily). So, static IP for the printer too – though on reflection, a static IP for a printer is probably a good thing.
The router also offers port triggering which can be used for ‘real time port forwarding’ which gets round some of this. You will need a ‘live’ output port for the software, which can then open a port range for further i/o as needed. This is effectively independent of IP as it is assigned on demand to the IP initiating the output. You would need to read further on this, but I can’t help thinking there are too many flaws with this approach.
In conclusion, solid and quick, but a potential nuisance to set up for any but the most basic uses.
I have had one of these for about a year now. Use it to share my cable broadband. I have 3 PCs a printer and 2 Xbox 360s hooked up to it. The best thing about it is the ease of use. I did not have to set up anything at all. I just plugged in my cables and it worked straight away. It comes with a CD-Rom which I have not even opened. Silent in operation, I would recommend this to anybody
This is my 2nd Cable router from Linksys. It is virtually identical to the 4-port version BEFSR41. Like the BEFSR41. very easy to use with Virgin media ISP, I only needed to plug it in with instant shared Internet. I did not have to use the setup CD-Rom or even power anything down, as reccomended.
I have connected to it 2 PCs, a HP Laser Jet Printer, A HP Home Media server, my original BEFSR41 which in turn has a 3rd computer and an XBOX
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This product arrived on time but it’s NOT UK Compliant. The power socket does not fit ANY UK socket, I think its Russian! Its completely and utterely useless….NOT HAPPY!
Bought to replace a superb d-link 4-port that finally died
. As all four ports of the d-link had been filled I thought I’d add some more, so when I found this at a good price in marketplace I snapped it up.
It works ‘out of the box’ with Vista, XP and Linux for basic stuff, as well as with an existing d-link switch, without any speed issues (which I have seen reported by others), but there are potential problems!
Unless you bypass DHCP (potentially an important requirement for network novices) and assign IP numbers to hardware yourself, port forwarding can be a real nuisance. The IP numbers shuffle around the hardware every time you switch on, and whilst this may be how DHCP ‘works’, the d-link always assigned the same IP to the same MAC so that you knew who/what was where for forwarding.
This also gave problems in Linux for my networked HP printer as it’s IP had to be defined when the driver was installed, meaning every time I switched off, my printer disappeared (windows handled these IP changes easily). So, static IP for the printer too – though on reflection, a static IP for a printer is probably a good thing.
The router also offers port triggering which can be used for ‘real time port forwarding’ which gets round some of this. You will need a ‘live’ output port for the software, which can then open a port range for further i/o as needed. This is effectively independent of IP as it is assigned on demand to the IP initiating the output. You would need to read further on this, but I can’t help thinking there are too many flaws with this approach.
In conclusion, solid and quick, but a potential nuisance to set up for any but the most basic uses.
I have had one of these for about a year now. Use it to share my cable broadband. I have 3 PCs a printer and 2 Xbox 360s hooked up to it. The best thing about it is the ease of use. I did not have to set up anything at all. I just plugged in my cables and it worked straight away. It comes with a CD-Rom which I have not even opened. Silent in operation, I would recommend this to anybody
This is my 2nd Cable router from Linksys. It is virtually identical to the 4-port version BEFSR41. Like the BEFSR41. very easy to use with Virgin media ISP, I only needed to plug it in with instant shared Internet. I did not have to use the setup CD-Rom or even power anything down, as reccomended.
I have connected to it 2 PCs, a HP Laser Jet Printer, A HP Home Media server, my original BEFSR41 which in turn has a 3rd computer and an XBOX