Are you guys still out there?
I have a friend who bought a Linksys router. He was having trouble with his last router, and I recommend he buy a good Cisco router since he is serious about his server, using comcast broadband I think, previously he said he was using T1. He is using Macs, but he has Unix set up as the server, so the problem is he wants to correct a problem he has, but has been unable to find the fix. First he bought a new cable modem, and then he bought a new router. I told him to get a good used Cisco router, but he went again for the cheap home network router I guess.
He lives in New Jersey, and states close by can bring up his site and pages, no problem, but people here in California like me, and other friends here
300 miles south have not been able to bring up his site either. Also oversees friends say they also have trouble bringing up his site. It seems to time out always. It tries to bring up the pages and then it times out like 404. The root page I can bring up, but there is not content on it anyway for a real test. One of his pages which has an interview on it with several photos always times out for me. I can ping and tracert, but it always seems to time out just near its source before. I completed a trace recently, but it stills had problems with his pages and such.I am thinking this is a limitation of a cheap router, and doesn't have anywhere near the capabilities of a Cisco router. Would a bottom line used Cisco router be the fix? Is Linksys really able to route connections worldwide in robust manner? I wouldn't think so. This is basically the type I think that Good Guys or Best Buy sells.
Any clues on this, what the fix might be in his settings, or is this just the limitations of a cheap router?
thanks,
SM