Anyone know much about SMC?

CarolinaKSU · Jun 10, 2008

Well, my Linksys WRT300N is starting to show why everyone was bashing them before, it is getting older and is starting to drop signal left and right, lag like crazy during gaming, and in general start to piss me off and doubt linksys and cisco big time.

Anyway, I was reading some reviews for new routers and came across this one from CNET about the SMC SMCWGBR14-N:

http://reviews.cnet.com/routers/smc-smcwgbr14-n-barricade/4505-3319_7-32590920.html

It seems to get really high reviews from them, but havent heard much about them in the real world. Anyone else have any experience with this router or SMC in general?

leventp · Jun 10, 2008

As far as I know, they are quite a big manufacturer of networking equipment. I can guess the documentation and packaging will not be on par with Linksys, US Robotics etc. but the hardware is possibly solid.

mrhuggles · Jun 11, 2008

dude i will give you a hundred internets if you get yourself an X-WRT [openwrt with webif²] supported router and give it a try, i personaly guarantee that you will have a very pleasureable experience

provided the router you get is well supported, i suggest a
WRT54GS v1.0 to v3.0 or a
WRT54G v2.0 to 4.0 or a
WRT54GL

in that order

i swear it will never crash and always be made of flawless victory.
but seriously it works really well, if you live close enough to anyone that uses it you should ask them to let you get on their network and abuse it with as much as you can and watch it shrug it off

sorry about your bad purchase btw, i... really hope that you dont go down the same road again, i did it about 3 times befor i desided to get myself an old openWRT compatible router. it may be old but, cpu power, memory speed and size, and flash space is what counts, its like if you get a brand spanking new computer that is a 1.6ghz celeron or something and you compare it to a slightly older Q6600 with really good ddr2 memory and etc...

kureng · Jun 15, 2008

SMC quite popular in the asia market... ranging from home networking to enterprise networks. The price basically cheaper than Linksys or 3com, performance quite equivalent to Dlink.

mrw1986 · Jun 15, 2008

I experienced problem after problem with my SMC equipment. As soon as I switched to Linksys and Buffalo equipment the problems disappeared. I found them to be 10x more reliable and better (flashed with WWDRT and Tomato)

P4-630 · Jun 15, 2008

I use an smc usb wifi adapter, can get quite warm but I think that is normal for usb wifi adapters , it works fine, I connect to a linksys AP router (also flashed with Tomato).

The only weak point is that there are no 64 bit drivers:shadedshu

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