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Just got one of these, installed it on a desktop running XP, all fine and dandy, but won't connect to my laptop running Vista. So I ring the tech support and they guide me step by step to upgrading the firmware. After I did this, the whole router died, no wired or wireless connection, and it won't even reset to default. After a 20 min conversation with some supervisor type, they still have failed to in any way help or reimburse me, telling me to send it back to Amazon.

Fooking useless, do not ever buy any products from these folk, absolute w@nkers.

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

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Had one or two probs with our Belkin, but the tech support is good and they have a lifetime warranty.

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Joeyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

I'm fuming. Also when I asked to speak to someone senior I was told they wouldn't be in till 2. Lazy barstewards. I only need the router for this week, so I thought I'd just get a cheap one. Last time I make that decision.

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I got a router from Deutsche Telekom for free as we signed up to a 2 year flat rate contract. Works great!!
I have another from Telekom unused if you want it Benny.

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It's a whopper indeed. It's probably really meaningful and probably quite profound yet still, somehow, nonsense! No offence, Shimmer. - Buffbill

no no no, i like the foreigners. it's those c nts in white football shirts that get on my tits. - GA (on England)

Sadly I don't think it would reach in time. Plus my folks are on an ADSL connection.

I'll just sit and stew in my own Bennybitterness...

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I gave away an airport extreme the other week. Shame that.

Shame that. This is it, I think:

http://www.ciao.de/Deutsche_Telekom_Teledat_DSL_Router_530__Test_2504008

Still boxed and unused.

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It's a whopper indeed. It's probably really meaningful and probably quite profound yet still, somehow, nonsense! No offence, Shimmer. - Buffbill

no no no, i like the foreigners. it's those c nts in white football shirts that get on my tits. - GA (on England)

I had no end of issues when I got my new PC with Vista. I had several usb peripherals that it would not recognize, but XP did, including a USB WIFI adaptor. When I loaded the new driver for Vista, the New PC Blue screened on me and I had to re install. I tried three times and then gave up.

Its not wonder M$ are talking of a new windows next year, Vista has killed their reputation and Businesses wont upgrade to it!!

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Venga City, Venga city !

Vista looks nice and when it works, it is great. When I first got the new machine I had no end of problems. Seems to be working fine since the last 3 months since doing a reinstall and a few system checks.
Perhaps one day there'll be a Linux on the market that most people will be able to use.

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It's a whopper indeed. It's probably really meaningful and probably quite profound yet still, somehow, nonsense! No offence, Shimmer. - Buffbill

no no no, i like the foreigners. it's those c nts in white football shirts that get on my tits. - GA (on England)

There are some really nice touches in it, it just annoyed the hell out of me that lots of things didnt work, especially USB items that should just plug and play.

Just the IT industry ripping the general public off!! Logitec especially!! The web cam didnt work, said on their site that it wasnt supported by Vista, its only 18 month old FFS!!

I gave it to my mum in the end and bought a cheap one.

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that's the problem that MS faces (and other OS manufacturers like Linux providers face)and Apple doesn't. With so many products on the market, it's difficult to make everyone happy. Apple just has to look after itself.
I used to have linux on a machine, but so much didn't work, as the drivers weren't tested properly, i gave up using it.

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It's a whopper indeed. It's probably really meaningful and probably quite profound yet still, somehow, nonsense! No offence, Shimmer. - Buffbill

no no no, i like the foreigners. it's those c nts in white football shirts that get on my tits. - GA (on England)

This is my router of choice.

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Manchester City - No longer a "hole-in-the-sock" sort of club.

Did I ever mention I have an iMac?

To remove excess hair?

Gayer.

I would like to move to Linux I think. And use open source software. It appeals to my geekiness...

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I'm glad to say I haven't got a clue what any of you are talking about.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/SuSE-Inc-openSuSE-10-3-Linux/dp/B000V7FCSM/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=software&qid=1210161747&sr=8-2
I had an older version on an old machine. As I said it worked, but not to how I would have liked. This should see you right.
The only problem with Linux being, is that you can tinker with the source code, which I can see you being drawn to do.

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It's a whopper indeed. It's probably really meaningful and probably quite profound yet still, somehow, nonsense! No offence, Shimmer. - Buffbill

no no no, i like the foreigners. it's those c nts in white football shirts that get on my tits. - GA (on England)