So I Officially Hate the RVS4000
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So this post will be short. I've been having all kinds of issues with 2 separate RVS4000s, AND my FiOS routers. I keep having the WAN just drop out. A reboot solves it but it's been increasing in frequency and in my annoyance and frustration. Every time I change a gateway I have to call Verizon to release and renew the lease on the WAN for a new MAC address. I switched it from going via coax to now over ethernet out of the "black box" (even though it's white). So I finally converted what has been my WAP-only for years to the gateway and a solid almost 24 hours now with no issues. The FiOS routers never worked...the RVS4000s kept bugging out...this Cisco Linksys E3000 running dd-wrt is just rock solid.
It's been frustrating, especially now that I host my website...oh well, we're up and should be up for good now.
Thanks,
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Cisco consumer devices have always had a horrible reputation.
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Those are all devices that I am not surprised to see having problems. Why use only consumer devices? Home lab... good spot to use business gear for experience and resume building.
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@StrongBad said:
Those are all devices that I am not surprised to see having problems. Why use only consumer devices? Home lab... good spot to use business gear for experience and resume building.
Yeah, like I have the $$ to front for REAL Cisco business-grade equipment.
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@Reid-Cooper said:
Cisco consumer devices have always had a horrible reputation.
Linksys has always been good to me. I haven't heard much about them since Belkin bought them, though.
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I believe the router was from the small business line, not consumer product.
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@technobabble said:
I believe the router was from the small business line, not consumer product.
It still sucks. It is "Small Business" though.
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@ajstringham I dislike most consumer equipment anymore. Cisco/Linksys and Netgear have both started adding all kinds of crap to the router making it hard to simply jump in set a few things and be done.
I have a Cisco/Linksys EA4500 on my desk now that I just removed from service because the damn thing continually interfered with VoIP calling. No idea how, the settings were supposedly "off" but still call problems. The user now has an Ubiquiti ERL and UniFi AP with zero problems in the two weeks since.
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@JaredBusch said:
@ajstringham I dislike most consumer equipment anymore. Cisco/Linksys and Netgear have both started adding all kinds of crap to the router making it hard to simply jump in set a few things and be done.
I have a Cisco/Linksys EA4500 on my desk now that I just removed from service because the damn thing continually interfered with VoIP calling. No idea how, the settings were supposedly "off" but still call problems. The user now has an Ubiquiti ERL and UniFi AP with zero problems in the two weeks since.
I refused to go with the EA series Cisco products. There was a lawsuit awhile back that got Cisco in trouble where they were found to be sniffing traffic and sending reports back to Cisco on devices in the EA line.
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@technobabble said:
I believe the router was from the small business line, not consumer product.
Cisco small business was rebranded Linksys consumer for a while. I don't generally consider Cisco small business to be non-consumer.
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@ajstringham said:
@StrongBad said:
Those are all devices that I am not surprised to see having problems. Why use only consumer devices? Home lab... good spot to use business gear for experience and resume building.
Yeah, like I have the $$ to front for REAL Cisco business-grade equipment.
Why look at real Cisco? Or why look at consumer-ish Cisco? There are enterprise routers cheaper than the small business Ciscos like MikroTik and Ubiquiti. They are fully managed, full featured enterprise routers with more bells and whistles than the small business Ciscos and more throughput too.
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@StrongBad said:
@ajstringham said:
@StrongBad said:
Those are all devices that I am not surprised to see having problems. Why use only consumer devices? Home lab... good spot to use business gear for experience and resume building.
Yeah, like I have the $$ to front for REAL Cisco business-grade equipment.
Why look at real Cisco? Or why look at consumer-ish Cisco? There are enterprise routers cheaper than the small business Ciscos like MikroTik and Ubiquiti. They are fully managed, full featured enterprise routers with more bells and whistles than the small business Ciscos and more throughput too.
Yes, I am aware. I was going to look at a Ubiquiti but my E3000 has been rock solid since.
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If you have an old PC laying around (or find one on kijiji for < $50), put two network cards in it and install pfSense. If you're concerned about power consumption, find a Pentium 3; they draw very little power. If space is an issue and you don't mind spending a few $ (< $200), get an Alix board/case/power supply.
I gave up on consumer routers a while ago. I found mine would choke every time someone started doing a portscan or other weird hacking/scanning attempts on the cable network. I still use a D-Link wireless router for my Wifi access, but it's running openwrt and it's just a bridge between the WLAN and LAN (WAN port is not in use)
Note, I had the "choking" issue on my D-Link and Linksys routers even while they were running openwrt; I think the small CPU's in them just couldn't handle dropping all the packets and while continuing to serve legitimate traffic
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@jasonh said:
If you have an old PC laying around (or find one on kijiji for < $50), put two network cards in it and install pfSense. If you're concerned about power consumption, find a Pentium 3; they draw very little power. If space is an issue and you don't mind spending a few $ (< $200), get an Alix board/case/power supply.
I gave up on consumer routers a while ago. I found mine would choke every time someone started doing a portscan or other weird hacking/scanning attempts on the cable network. I still use a D-Link wireless router for my Wifi access, but it's running openwrt and it's just a bridge between the WLAN and LAN (WAN port is not in use)
Note, I had the "choking" issue on my D-Link and Linksys routers even while they were running openwrt; I think the small CPU's in them just couldn't handle dropping all the packets and while continuing to serve legitimate traffic
My Cisco E3000 running dd-wrt has yet to go down in almost 4 days. Before, it was every 4 hours with my network. No exaggeration. When you host your own website out of the location too, that's really bad. But I know what you mean. The OEM firmware sucks on almost all consumer stuff. Netgear Genie is the best of the lot that I've seen but still pales in comparison to dd-wrt, which I swear by.
