A friend of mine bought the same router over a year ago and has had no problems with it at all.  I decied to give it a try after having problems with sharing a printer through Windows.  I never did get it to work AT ALL with the printer.  Everything else was working fine for the most part, but after about 2 weeks, it began freezing on a daily basis.  Over the past 4 months I've been using it, it has only gotten worse.  It seems that overheating is the problem, and after a little cooling off peroid, it works fine again -- but this is a proceedure that goes on several times a day now.  Oddly enough, the cold weather and prying the cover off for better ventilation has only made it worse.  All of this is ONLY with a wired setup; wireless, serial, and printer ports are not being used.
I attemped to contact SMC through their website, but no luck, I never recieved a response.  SMC seems to have poor service and is not addressing this reoccuring problem.  If I did it again, I'd pay twice as much and stick with the reliable NetGear, or at least LinkSys.  I won't be buying an SMC again.
A friend of mine bought the same router over a year ago and has had no problems with it at all. I decied to give it a try after having problems with sharing a printer through Windows. I never did get it to work AT ALL with the printer. Everything else was working fine for the most part, but after about 2 weeks, it began freezing on a daily basis. Over the past 4 months I've been using it, it has only gotten worse. It seems that overheating is the problem, and after a little cooling off peroid, it works fine again -- but this is a proceedure that goes on several times a day now. Oddly enough, the cold weather and prying the cover off for better ventilation has only made it worse. All of this is ONLY with a wired setup; wireless, serial, and printer ports are not being used. I attemped to contact SMC through their website, but no luck, I never recieved a response. SMC seems to have poor service and is not addressing this reoccuring problem. If I did it again, I'd pay twice as much and stick with the reliable NetGear, or at least LinkSys. I won't be buying an SMC again.