Well in most retail stores you will see Netgear, Linksys, and Belkin routers.

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1985 CA 300D Turbo , 213K mi

That is a good point. The D-Link products are great though. I run gigabit PCI cards, a router and a gigabit hub and it all works seamlessly.

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1974 240D 3.0L 4(M) - 250K -OM617.910 + 300D FW + Rajay turbo power!
1977 6.9 3(A) - 84k

Yep, I got dupped into buying a Netgear wireless "G" because that is what the retail store had. A year later I lost the number 3 port and then a year after that I lost the number 4 port. Being cheap, I added a Linksys switch to gain back the ports I lost and then some. Finally this is the fourth year of owning it, I lost the number 1 port. But the wireless still works and the Linksys switch has no problems.

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1983 123.133 California
- GreaseCar Veg System

my card is a d-link, I guess I can rule that out then?

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1980 500SE/AMG Euro
1981 500SEL Euro
1982 380SEL
1983 300TD
1983 500SEC/AMG Euro
1984 500SEC
1984 300TD Euro
1986 190E 2.3-16
1986 190E 2.3
1987 300D
1997 C36 AMG
2003 C320T 4matic

past: 1969 280SE 4.5 | 1978 240D | 1978 300D | 1981 300SD | 1981 300SD | 1982 300CD | 1983 300CD | 1983 300SD | 1983 380SEC | 1984 300D | 1984 300D | 1984 300TD | 1984 500SEL | 1984 300SD | 1985 300D | 1986 300E | 1986 560SEL | 1986 560SEL/Carat | 1987 560SEC | 1991 300D 2.5 | 2006 R350

I'm on my second Linksys router in about five years. The first one got fried during an electrical storm. Otherwise, I haven't had any problems

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" We have nothing to fear but the main stream media itself . . . ."- Adapted from Franklin D Roosevelt for the 21st century

OBK #55

1998 Lincoln Continental - Sold
Max 1984 300TD 285,000 miles - Sold
The Dee8gonator 1987 560SEC 196,000 miles - Sold
Orgasmatron - 2006 CLS500 90,000 miles
2002 C320 Wagon 122,000 miles
2016 AMG GTS 12,000 miles

Not necessarily, the cables and patch cables go bad sometimes. Rare but it happens. I made some bad cables and wow the collision rates went through the roof and the switch bandwidth dropped dramatically.

If you have a close property line with neighbors or an increase in wireless routers running in your area signal drops are very common. One of my clients has 12 listed routers on the monitor! so we had to get a booster to flood out the erroneus signals even though the farthest wireless cards were 20 feet away.

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1974 240D 3.0L 4(M) - 250K -OM617.910 + 300D FW + Rajay turbo power!
1977 6.9 3(A) - 84k

My Linksys was such a piece of garbage. It never failed all together but ahd to be reset all the time. I was having all sorts of speed issue to with comcast high speed. They came out and replaced all the lines to the house, etc. In the end that POS was the problem. A new Belkin solved everything.

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Adam Lumsden
(83) 300D
Vice-President of the MBCA International Stars Section

(Snort, guffaw!)