Rouxenator
Dank meme lord
This post is half rant half inquiry - is there anyone that can recommend TRENDnet products because I have just about had it with them.
My first exposure to TRENDnet was a TDM-C400 ADSL Router which would choke as soon as you open 50 P2P connections over it. No firmware updates for it, replaced it with a D-Link and never looked back.
My second exposure was a TEW-423PI PCI Wireless-G network card that had the worst reception ever - even when fitted with 6dbi aerial it still had poor reception when compared to a similar D-Link card.
The third time I made the TRENDnet mistake was with a TEW-432BRP 4-port Wireless-G router. Initially it worked fine but after 3 months it started to overheat and you had to switch it off every now and then to avoid it from crashing.
The last time I got taken for a ride by TRENDnet was with a TEW-651BR 4-port Wiresless-N Router. Everything appeared to be fine but it wasted 3 hours of my life because it turns out it could not handle WEP/WPA passkeys that contains a $ (dollar sign). Like Pa$$key or $ecret123 - you could set them but never make a connection using them. This was enough and I logged an error on the TRENDnet site - they came back remarkably fast with a remarkably crap answer "Forward to engineers, maybe will be fixed in future firmware".
WTF kind of network equipment company are they trying to run here? Has anyone ever had a good TRENDnet product or is such a device an illusion? And why are these things being sold in such large volumes by sites like Take2? I mean, are there really more morons like me out there that gives a brand 3 or 4 chances?
My first exposure to TRENDnet was a TDM-C400 ADSL Router which would choke as soon as you open 50 P2P connections over it. No firmware updates for it, replaced it with a D-Link and never looked back.
My second exposure was a TEW-423PI PCI Wireless-G network card that had the worst reception ever - even when fitted with 6dbi aerial it still had poor reception when compared to a similar D-Link card.
The third time I made the TRENDnet mistake was with a TEW-432BRP 4-port Wireless-G router. Initially it worked fine but after 3 months it started to overheat and you had to switch it off every now and then to avoid it from crashing.
The last time I got taken for a ride by TRENDnet was with a TEW-651BR 4-port Wiresless-N Router. Everything appeared to be fine but it wasted 3 hours of my life because it turns out it could not handle WEP/WPA passkeys that contains a $ (dollar sign). Like Pa$$key or $ecret123 - you could set them but never make a connection using them. This was enough and I logged an error on the TRENDnet site - they came back remarkably fast with a remarkably crap answer "Forward to engineers, maybe will be fixed in future firmware".
WTF kind of network equipment company are they trying to run here? Has anyone ever had a good TRENDnet product or is such a device an illusion? And why are these things being sold in such large volumes by sites like Take2? I mean, are there really more morons like me out there that gives a brand 3 or 4 chances?
