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Dec 14, 2017
Awful piece of equipment
14 of 20 found this helpful The seller here on eBay was great, fast and professional make no mistake on that.
The device on the other hand was horrific (no fault to the seller again seller was great) and a disgusting insult to the major names attached to it like Razer. Claiming open source ready, yet not supported by any existing open source firmware this device's firmware was based on not one but TWO no longer supported versions of OpenWRT. The user interface via the web browser is stripped down and pointless as the very few configurations you can make have no effect at all. This in the fact that if you have an in house DNS server it will not forward requests to it nor can you shut off DHCP in anyway. Configurations from the command line have about the same effect. On top of all of that it will periodically kick every device off the network with exception to anything connected to the LAN ports requiring a reboot every few hours. This has been, as I've found out through recent research, due to a yet un-patched bug in the stock firmware and the two subsequent updates as well meaning even if you roll back the automated updated firmware you're still screwed. Linksys support is no help either given that there are literally 2000 posts on their user forums, which they frequent under the guise of "being for the users", and yet SOMEHOW the issue still has not been resolved. Having called and dealt with tech support I was asked for various logs and explanations of what changes I had or had not made and asked to forward said logs to them and in the following days asked for several more logs where they began to point the finger at my devices MAC addresses (not the problem) and seemed totally unaware of the fact that the firmware is based on old outdated no longer supported code.
For a company that claims to have been the first to actively support open source firmware they have a garbage way of showing it. Sad from the company whose initial firmware spawned the existence of DD-WRT and OpenWRT. Stay away from Belkin/Linksys and this overpriced paperweight.