GEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEK
I got pissed off at home networking hardware. Six routers in either three or four brands (I forget if one of them was a Belkin or if two of them were D-Link) -- ALL WITH THE SAME PROBLEM. Every single one of them would crash every couple of days, requiring a power cycle to get back online. So I'm not using a home wireless router anymore -- I'm
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Are you sure the hard drive is spinning when it's idle at the login screen? I'd think the disk would go to sleep. And yeah, I know it uses more electricity, but even that's cheaper than buying another crap router. (And besides, it's also acting as a file server. Very low traffic, but it's there. And sooner or later a print server. And if I get an ISP that doesn't suck, a web server. The laptop surely pulls less power than the sum of a router and a desktop doing all of that.)
I'm actually eyeballing the DIR-615. (There's custom firmware available, and it has 32MB of RAM. Very attractive.) I also picked up a Linksys WRV210 today ($119) but haven't unsealed the packaging yet because I came up with this temporary solution -- I think I may return it for a refund and order something better online. There aren't many reviews on the WRV210, but the reviews I have found seem to be colored by people expecting a home router and ending up with a business model. Do you have any opinions?
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The DIR-655 has a USB port on it that I believe can be used for sharing of a printer or mass storage. It also can transmit two SSIDs and segregate the traffic, so you can have a guest network and your own secure one.
I'm very happy with my purchase, and in the 6 months or so that I've had it, I've not had to power cycle it a single time.
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