[79587] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Dear Linksys: Your broken WET54GS5 makes me sad.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Sobol)
Mon Apr 11 16:14:03 2005
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.61.0504111125310.17223@pants.snark.net>
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2005 16:13:36 -0400
From: "Steve Sobol" <sjsobol@JustThe.net>
To: just me <matt@snark.net>,
"Matthew S. Hallacy" <poptix@poptix.net>
Cc: <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
just me <matt@snark.net> wrote:
> My apologies. Apparently I was mistaken when I thought that other
> network operators might be interested in saving themselves the time
> and money of buying a broken piece of network equipment, which the
> manufacturer won't support.
Unless the Linksys router in question can do GigE, I'm not sure most network
operators would be interested in buying it. :)
In all seriousness, this might be better posted on a list like Jupitermedia's
isp-tech, since the membership of that list consists of a lot of consumer ISPs
that might want to advise their customers to stay away from the product in
question.
> Apparently you think that a mailing list of network operators is an
> inappropriate venue.
In this case, I do. It's a consumer product.
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