One bourbon, one scotch, and one mav

In the last few weeks, Linksys has: provided me with information on how to rip open a case (just rip the front off, rather violently) and helped me fix a bad firmware flash on an old BEFSR11 (at least three years old.) They have responded quickly (within 24 hours) and told me precisely what I needed to know.

Netgear, on the other hand, did not respond to two of my electronic requests for help, finally replied to the third (after a four-day wait) but their reply was just a generic cookie-cutter e-mail that didn’t even begin to answer my questions.

So in short, what I’ve accomplished with networking this week is:
- took back my gorgeous-looking but shit-running Netgear to Costco (I love their return policy)
- purchased a Linksys Wireless-G router
- Fixed my Linksys old-school broadband router with precisely zero glitches

I’d just like to suggest again that Netgear is a bunch of fucking douchebags. I don’t know what in the hell happened to them, they used to be the premier supplier of home and small-office networking gear. Now they’re not worth the effort it would take to piss on ‘em. Oh, how the mighty have fallen.