RE: Using two computers on the same Cable or DSL line.

I am writing this letter to ALL Wireless Router manufacturers.

I have a Linksys Wireless Router Model:BEFW11S4. It is 7 years (yes, count

them, all of seven little years) old. I have visited the Linksys website

numerous times trying to set up the WEP/WPA security on that wireless router

(as all responsible wireless router owners should!). I found that there are

no links to any wireless router setting websites that are congruent with the

screen shots from Linksys' own self help technical support site. I have had

to call Linksys several times to resolve this issue only to be placed on hold

for lengthy times (sometimes my call was dropped and I had to start over ....

how sad for such a large company to have such poorly trained phone

receptionists!), then be transferred (see previous comment about the phone

receptionists) to a supposed supervisor, only to finally be transferred to

someone who tells me that the warranty has expired and wants me to pay $40.00

for the technical support to do the right thing that I want and need to do.

First, the device works fine (as evidenced by this e-mail that you have

just received)!

Second, why should I have to pay for doing the right thing?

Third, if I am going to be EXTORTED into buying a new wireless router so

that I can do the right thing and set up an encryption key for a secure

network, what on Gods' Green Earth makes anyone think that I would CHOOSE to

buy another Linksys product when ALL that I have ever received from them is a

functional wireless router (yes, even after seven whole years) and the

crappiest Customer Service/Technical Support I have ever had the displeasure

to encounter!

I shall copy this letter and try to find as many Chat Rooms as possible in

order to spread the word of ALL that I have gone through with the Chain of

Command at the Linksys phone center, well above and beyond what any

reasonable person should expect to go through, and still have NO RELIEF

concerning my singular issue with their product and its capabilities that I

SHOULD be able to enjoy as the owner of said product! What has happend to

"The Customer Is Always Right" Customer Service mantra (I can't say "In

America" because the call was handled in India)? Is the Customer, the ones

that makes the company what it is through the purchase of products, so

worthless to the company that they can just be treated with abject contempt

and scorn? Is the Customer to thus be trampled underfoot? Are we paying to

be so abused? I, for one (yes, one, the beginning of all), shall NOT be

treated in such manner, and CERTAINLY shall NOT PAY to be treated as such!

In this world of expanding technologies, it shall be those with the

GREATEST Customer Appeal that shall continue to be found worthwile in the

publics' eyes (and pocketbooks) and shall grow to meet the demands of a

growing world - ESPECIALLY in the Electronics Department!

It is now my strongest desire that the Linksys Corporation suffers

irreparable damage and goes out of business for their Crappy Customer

Service! I can only hope that I reach enough people around the world to bring

this desire true!

"MichaelHensley" wrote:

> That's what a router is for (you can't us a hub for this). Linksys, Netgear,

> and others make what are currently marketed as "Internet routers" for about

> $50.00. Since the ones that include wireless don't usually cost any more, you

> might as well get one of those, even if you don't need it yet. Just turn off

> the wireless service until you want it.

>

> "Bob" wrote:

>

> > I have two computers, one with Win 98 and one with Win XP. I would like to be

> > able to connect then both to the same in line. I do not need to use them both

> > at the same time. Could there be a type of router or hub that would permit me

> > to connect both computers to my Internet Providers Box with out having to

> > disconnect one each time I want to use the other?

> > --

> > Bob May