comparing two routers

Have you looked at the specs on their web sites?

It's a piece of s*it, get rid of it. That and it's only 802.11b, the much slower data rate.

Yes.

Yes ones G and he the Linksys is B only, much slower as the web site told you.

Hi,

Your Linksys BEFW11S4 is an old 802.11b-only router that has a lot of known issues. It also only supports WEP, which isn't secure.

If it weren't for all the known issues (

Thanks for the replies. I don't know what the 11b and 11g mean but evidently b is slower...

I use that router, and it also supports WPA. The router should work fine in a second home unless the OP wants to do lots of local file transfers across his network. For Internet use, the router should be fine.

Follow up: I'm at our second home and using the ancient Linksys without any problems. I sat it on my PC desk on the second floor, it's about 10' away from a window with a view of my shop which is 90' away. Both structures are wood' the shop isn't insulated, I don't know about the house (it's very old and we don't know much about the construction and updates). I can surf the net and check email from the shop with no problems. Set up was mostly automatic but I never saw an option for establishing a passwrod to gain access. I'll have to set aside some time to go through the User Guide I downloaded and figure out how to do that.