OT: Wireless routers

[Mike Schwartz]

> I've had some problems with the Linksys BEFVP41 VPN boxes, mainly that
> they
> seem to get tired and die after a year or so.  I always carry a spare.
> 
> Bill

     Now that you mention it, I have one location with a BEFVP41 that has
had 3 replacements in the past 3 years.  Each time it died after about a
year.  (Just a month or two after the warranty ran out...)  

     I wanted to replace it with something else each time it died, but this
is a "shared office" facility, and it took me a long time to train the (not
too technical) secretary how to go into the router and make changes as the
clients move in and out of the offices.  I don't want to go through that
training again...
 
Mike Schwartz