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Well, where are you keeping it. I'll admit I have not had to call Linksys cutomer service for years, but the 2 or 3 times I have, they are the best. Good price. I guess if it's not a huge, heavy, expensive thing they perceive it as being cheap.There was also a complaint about cutomer service.
Now there are many more colorful lights. There are about 15 little lights on there. For those that insist that nothing is perfect, my only design change would be to eliminate some of the indicator lighting on the front. The one I received is all black, and there is another listing for it on Amazon.I don't get the negatives I've read here. Someone said it gets hot. It's actually a very good quality piece of equipment at a very good price. Imagine, actually getting a human person on the phone and walking you through everything you need.Bottom line: Qulity product.
My "office" area already looked like Christmas at night with all of the LEDs shining off of everything from my computer to the phone to the clock and everything else. This switch works fine and does what it's supposed to do. It's a simple little digital switch that doesn't create any heat.maybe a slight watmth.Another said something about it being cheap, plastic junk. I wish I needed more of these little things.there almost fun to buy and plug all your gadgets in.And oh yeah, very easy and simple "plug and play" installation.Ok.
It is not what I expected.But despite all stated above it does exactly what described in specification. I did not liked it. If I were to read it I would keep looking for something little different.This piece is very very tiny and functions perfectly for small networks
However, I was expecting a blue and black outer shell as was depicted in the product picture, though the one I received was ALL black on the outside. Overall great product. This product functions as it is supposed to; I have absolutely no complaints about that (in the one month that I've had the product). That doesn't affect functionality, though an accurate picture would have been nice.
I just wanted to take the Ethernet connection from my cable modem and split it to three other computers so that I could have a faster, direct connection since I have somewhat spotty wireless connection due to interference with neighbors routers. I was confused about the difference between Hubs, Switches, and routers. This switch did just the charm and was surprisingly inexpensive.So, if you have a modem with an Ethernet out and want to connect multiple computers to the internet, this device will work for you.
So just an FYI. The Motorola SurfBoard modem is a throughput device, that assigns only one IP and the Linksys switch is not a smart/managed type that can assign individual IP addresses. WRONG. The router will then assign an unique IP address to my four computers and Blu-Ray player. In the meantime, I recently bought a Sony Blu-Ray player with Internet video streaming, but I found that the existing Linksys modem/router could not handle the upgraded high-speed service.
Perhaps this is common knowledge, but the technical support staff at Charter were not aware of this. After several hours of reseting the IP address on each computer, and several calls to Charter (my ISP), I called Motorola. So I bought a new Motorola DOCSIS 3.0 cable modem. I purchased this switch like most folks to allow an existing Linksys cable modem/router to provide an Internet signal to an additional Ethernet port in my house. I naively thought I could simply use this Linksys switch to send the signal along its merry way throughout my house.
So I have a new router on its way from Amazon, which should solve the problem, once I place the router immediately after the modem but before the switch.
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