why Linksys sucks and is good at the same time

Well two hours later I finally got my Linksys B router up and running. Product Group : Wireless. My Cisco 340 Aeronet has been running for over a year without a failure. Linksys is great because it is simple. It sucks because it is simple. When you power the thing off, you loose all the changes to the password, SSId, etc. So I spent half an hour trying to get in using a password I had installed before the move back from NYC in 2002. No, the password was reset to the factory defaults (thoughtful in a sadistic way). Then I wanted to change the SSID and that was fine until I pressed reboot. REboot does the same thing as power off. REsets everything to factory settings. Annoying. Also I couldn’t use my VPN and configure the Linksys at the same time. There was a device on my VPN with the same IP address (another Linksys router no doubt). The frustrating part was that my passwords were in my outlook file which required connecting to the VPN. So I was had to muck around with the right combination of on/off VPN and reboot of the Linksys to get things working. I still can’t get it to switch from Gateway to Router opperaion. When I do that, I forgets where it’s DNS server is and can’t find a thing. But since it is running in Gateway mode, Newtork Magic doesn’t think anything else is connected and gives me nothing for a network map. Well Pure has some work to do….
That is what Beta is for.