[B]Cisco Killing off Linksys Brand, All Your Router Are Belong to Cisco[/B]

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Oh no! What will we do?

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honestly dude, Linksys is a real house hold name.... at least for me, I've had a linksys product for over 4 years now, either a switch, wireless router or even their cable modem. Sucks they gotta kill out a household name like that :(

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if it works as well or better and costs the same then what difference does it make? but that being said the reason that i bought a linksys was because of the brand name itself says it all

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Had a feeling this would eventually happen once Cisco bought out Linksys... honestly it doesn't bother me either way as long as they function well.

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hopefully after the name change they will make decent consumer line routers/switch/wifi again. back in the day when linksys was linksys, their stuff were pretty good. after cisco acquisition, they cut alot of corners on hardware specs.

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[quote=Kamal;512663]honestly dude, Linksys is a real house hold name.... at least for me, I've had a linksys product for over 4 years now, either a switch, wireless router or even their cable modem. Sucks they gotta kill out a household name like that :([/quote]Cry me a river K, as long as the shit works, who cares? ;)

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you guys dont get it man. honestly, if brand recognition is a concept in today's marketing world, Linksys was it for me and home networking

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[QUOTE=Kamal;512736]you guys dont get it man. honestly, if brand recognition is a concept in today's marketing world, Linksys was it for me and home networking[/QUOTE]

no, we get it. you are just being a baby.

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:mama:

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Cisco isn't exactly a bad name :) Just that people are more familiar with linksys gear for home use.

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[quote=Ryan0751;516250]Cisco isn't exactly a bad name :) Just that people are more familiar with linksys gear for home use.[/quote]

Exactly. I would even go as far to say that Cisco is the superior and that this change can only be a good thing.

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linksys is a definite household name for home routers. i am surprised cisco is going to put their stamp on small cheap home shit as they are known for higher end equipment. seems they are going to dilute their brand a little. but they are kicking ass right now so who cares eh?

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^ that's a good point. There's no reason to kill off the Linksys brand when it's well-established, plus Cisco has always been known for pretty hardcore corporate level shit. Maybe they're hoping to use Cisco's prestige for the consumer networking market, but to the layman, Cisco is probably best identified as shop/home alarm systems :roll::lol: I think they risk fucking up Cisco's name by lending it to consumer networking.

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^yeah, most people i know if i say cisco, they think of sysco the trucks they see out back of the restaurants around town delivering restaurant food and supplies :lol:

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Netgear > Linksyssy

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i have had a netgear for the last couple of years. got it for like 30$ at bestballs. runs perfect, wirless for my whole place and is the size of a paperback book.

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I must admit that in a way I understand Kamal. I have the same thing with plastic boxes. Imagine Curver taking over Rubbermaid in the same manner: I would never get a boner again from looking at a plastic box. Mmmm, Rubbermaid...

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[quote=feather;516757]but to the layman, Cisco is probably best identified as shop/home alarm systems [/quote]

To the layman, Cisco is that company that makes the tubs of cooking lard. :)

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I remember when serveral Linksys models had major issues when trying to hook up a server to it and use it via FTP programs. Oh the joy that was when Linksys admitted, "Yeah, there isn't a fix for that. Sorry."

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^^pebcak

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^ ^ BULLSHIT

It was a well known fact.