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Linksys!

No posts lately, been busy traveling and working. Haven't had too much going on in the BSC world. I did end up replacing my home Linksys router/modem. It was constantly loosing connection to the cable input. This was dropping my Vonage router out of commission too, so my first thought was that the Vonage adapter had gone bad. I got a new Vonage adapter, and it soon started acting the same. I installed the Surfboard modem, thinking it might be the load from the cable connection coming in. Nope. I then installed a D-Link Draft N Wireless Gigabit Router along with the standard Motorola Surfboard. That seemed to do the trick. I had the surfboard sitting in a dustbin in my storage closet, and the D-Link router cost @ 80 dollars. I fought with this thing for 3-4 months and it was merely $80 dollars away (the answer). I thought that when Cisco bought Linksys that it would improve the shoddy performance and longevity. They are easy to setup and configure, but then they go belly up after a