Linksys EtherFast® BEFSR81 Router

Review: Be aware that Linksys/Cisco is not honoring warranties on their low-end routers. Routers such as the BEFSR81 and BEFSR41 (4 and 8 input units) fail often. Those in Newegg.com rate them poorly. Mine failed after a few months. I had to call Linksys...

Review: We bought this router thinking it must be good because of its name. Well we were very wrong. We had it for 3 weeks and EVERY day of those 3 weeks the router would cut off for a couple seconds each day. Now that may not sound like a big deal but keep...

The Bottom Line: Great for home use but maybe not at the workplace.

Review: I only had one strange problem with this router at a customer site in Mississippi...it would intermittenly crash! There was nothing to explain why this was happening. My suspicion was always that the DSL provider had already provided a modem/router...

The Bottom Line: You may get lucky, or you may not.

Review: hookup the cable, then plug it into a power supply. The next step was to find the power supply button and turn it on. The first thing that we noticed was that we had to do, was select the cable TV icon and have it do an auto channel select mode...