21 of 23 customers found the following review helpful:
 You NEED this box!, 2000-04-30
If you've got cable or DSL internet access, you NEED this box!What does it do? Well... 1. It's an internet firewall. It prevents anyone from the outside getting into your computers. 2. It's a Network Address Translator. It allows you to connect 4 different computers to one Internet connection- and this can be expanded up to 253 computers, with the addition of inexpensive hubs. 3. It's a 100baseT switch. This means it allows all the computers you connect to it to communicate with each other at speeds of 100 million bits per second- that's nearly two million times faster than a 56KB modem! And it's very easy to set up- I had my home network running in a half hour. All you need to use it is a network card in your computer- something most computers come with these days- and enough ethernet cables to connect all your home computers to it. Like a lot of people these days, when I remodeled my house I ran two pieces of Category 5 wire to every phone outlet; now I can plug a computer into any room of the house, and it's on the internet. If you've got more than one computer in the house, and a high speed connection, you need this box. Even for just one computer, the firewall features alone are worth the money to make your system completely hack proof.
5 of 7 customers found the following review helpful:
 Great Product -- if you can get it to work, 2000-04-30
The Linksys Etherfast Cable/DSL Router is a very good product and has many useful capabilities, however, it is quite difficult to setup.It took me two days to get the router configured and working...none of the 'automatic' settings seemed to work. Nevertheless, once the router was properly configured it worked perfectly. The speed is great, and so far it has performed flawlessly in all respects.
3 of 3 customers found the following review helpful:
Great - simple to setup, worked first time, 2000-04-28
I followed the Quick Start instructions, and it worked first time. NT4 and Windows 2000 were both happy, and I can still PPTP to work.
5 of 5 customers found the following review helpful:
Inexpensive and simple., 2000-04-28
It's great!It took me 30 minutes to get it set up with my three computer network, and half of that was because I was trying to use the wrong cable to connect my DSL modem to the Linksys (the modem wants a cross-over cable, I was using a regular one). Now I share the internet with three computers, have a home network for sharing files, am protected against internet intrusion. Couldn't ask for more. The simplest set-up I have seen. The documentation seems fine, with a one-page quick-start insert that explains everything. I didn't need to use tech support.
41 of 42 customers found the following review helpful:
Great way to share the Internet!, 2000-04-26
I purchased one of these to share my Road Runner cable modem connection among the computers in my home. It only took a couple minutes to replace my 10Mbit hub with this router. The 10/100 switch in this thing was a dramatic speed boost from my hub and the NAT (Network Address Translation) used to share the Internet works flawlessly and is simpler, more flexible and configurable than Windows 98SE's Internet Connection Sharing. Not only do you get the 10/100 switch and NAT, but you get a basic IP firewall which greatly helps protect your computers from intruders on the Internet. Regarding the comment from someone wanting two DMZ hosts, you cannot have two DMZ hosts with one IP address.
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