Is a Cisco DPC3925 a piece of junk?

I would first make sure you are not double NATed. That is, make the modem DMZ to your router. I'm not one to care about how a set up page looks old. The GUI doesn't really do much in the long run. [Don't even get me started on web 2.0]

If you are a regular here, you will know I am not a fan of Netgear. I won't use their stuff if it was free. Actually I have turned down free Netgear stuff.

I had to DMZ, because I have some ports mapped in through my router. That didn't work any more when I plugged in my router to one of the ports on the new router.

I still wind up with double NAT, though. Outbound is passing through an extra translation, since the Cisco is a router.

The features on the web page were lacking. I don't care how fancy it looks. The Cisco looks very nice, but the web pages are all in javascript, so I can't even fetch them via curl, or copy-paste information from some of them.

I used to think several of the low end were interchangeable. I have grown unfond of Netgear now, with a WNR3000 and WNR1000 both failing. I just realized that I have a DLink DIR-655 in the garage that I replaced with the WNR3000 when I particpated in the SamKnows internet survey.

Replacing the router was more trouble than I expected, and it's still not good. My Ubuntu box is unstable, and I am beginning to think it just coincidentally is failing.

I counted some more, and I think I have 26 devices in my "Internet of things".

What router do you like?

For unmanaged switches, I have a few Dlinks. However, Dlink has its share of detractors. I'm using the Dlink Green series. The particular models aren't make anymore. For a wifi router, I have a Buffalo G450 running DD-WRT. I've never had a defective Dlink device and never had one fail on me.

You can go on Newegg and read reviews. There is always some wanker that got a DOA unit. Doesn't matter what brand. Filter that person out unless there are a lot of them. The thing with Newegg reviews is you look at what people don't like, i.e. specific complaints, and see if the problem would bother you. That is, the reviews give you something to read about, feature wise. If the review says "it sucks" and they aren't specific, ignore the review.

While I hold netgear in total contempt, some people like their gear. I've have two Netgear wifi routers fail I just can't waste any more money on that shitty company. Remember, they were so shitty they had to change the name.

I have to say this Buffalo G450 is the most reliable wifi router I ever owned. I never have to boot it. I never boot the switches either.

I buy a lot of stuff from NewEgg. I'm not sure why I have an affiinity towards them.

I recall Jeff liking Buffalo, too. They seem so young, and I am so mired in the past.

Buffalo uses a lot of Broadcom chipsets. Broadcom makes good stuff. I'm just amazed at how that company has grown. If you drive around Silicon Valley, Broadcom is like the Borg. They are everywhere.

All the Netgear wifi routers that I have ripped apart after they failed seem to marry some wifi module with an existing router. Broadcom makes the whole thing. They even make Arm processors. So the device tends to be better integrated.

Times change. Routers are just chips and firmware. It isn't hard for someone to come along and make a mark since the market itself is so big.

Netgear has started to use Broadcom in some routers, as well as Dlink. So possibly some Netgear stuff isn't shit, but then again, they peddle the crappiest wall warts. When a Netgear box fails, the first thing you check is the wall wart. But Linksys is equally bad in the wall wart arena.

Here's a feature of their web page that caused me grief. Because it is a router, the web interface appears on some variable IP address, let's call it 192.168.0.1, that I might change to some other address. Because it is a cable modem, it always appears at 192.168.100.1

Accessing 192.168.100.1 from the Factory Reset allowed me to login in with username and password blank, and then I set values for that.

Now, I can no longer log in on 192.168.100.1, although the appearance is identical to 192.168.47.250, my configured local address, where I can log in.

Is this the one? <

> BUFFALO AirStation HighPower N450 Gigabit DD-WRT Wireless Router - WZR-HP-G450H $83.99

Yes, though someone in the reviews claims this is one is not Broadcom based. Could be true since DD-WRT calls the wifi ath0.

Some person claims he boots his 9 times a day. I have to laugh at that since I have a squeezebox that has been attached for 22 days. And I think that was because I disconnected the squeezebox to clean up.

I will verify that the little bit of plastic that they call a stand is not wide enough if you use shielded cables, which are kind of stiff. It isn't a big deal, but the router is light and the cables push it around.

Range? I set up the timing to restrict my range. I don't have any problems with range. It is high power. Speed? I don't bother with N since I just have plain old DSL. There are less N channels, and why be a bandwidth pig since it won't make any difference in the data rate to my phone and other devices.

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Last one in the pool is a rotten egg. Over the last couple of days, what seems to be little steps of success are actually just vagaries of which devices are connected.

I connected a couple of things to a DLink DIR-655 and discovered that it is not on the "same network" as the Cisco. There is no setting about "Network Isolation" in the Cisco. I have a LAN port from the Cisco going to a LAN port on the DLink, a technique I was using to extend the wireless range for a few years, but it doesn't work with the Cisco. Programs and apps that need to be "on the same network" don't work. DirecTV In-Home viewing shows that it is out-of-the-home, as does an HP scanner, and ePrint. The IP addresses are the same regardless of which WiFi I associate with, and the Cisco shows the WiFi connections of the DLink as being on a wired port of the Cisco.

It seems that the Cisco DPC3925 can only handle 16 devices, LAN and WiFi. More devices than that connect and drop on WiFi, like a MAC filter is in place.

Ubuntu is the only place I get a clue about the problem. wpa_supplicant[1538]: wlan0: CTRL-EVENT-CONNECTED - Connection to

4c:72:b9:06:11:1b completed (reauth) [id=0 id_str=]

wpa_supplicant[1538]: wlan0: CTRL-EVENT-DISCONNECTED bssid=4c:72:b9:06:11:1b reason=15

I tried to eliminate the router/wifi portion of the Cisco as much as possible, using it as if it were the old Cable Modem, and my DLink-DIR-655 was my router and WiFi.

The Cisco WiFi won't turn off! It says it is disabled, but it is still a visible SSID, it just won't connect anymore.

I set a "DMZ" to the IP address of the DLink, after rearranging the wiring so that the DLink WAN is connected to a LAN port on the Cisco. That doesn't work, if the DLink is getting a DHCP address. I reserved it. It doesn't change. The DMZ accepted it, but it doesn't work. Nothing passes to it. And my very sensitive DirecTV gadgets still think they are "out of home". I can tell something is wrong because the GenieGo App shows an address of my 173 Internet address. When it is working, it shows my local 192 address. I set the Cisco Port Forwarding to pass the needed ports to the DLink, and set the DLink to pass them to the appropriate places. That made some services work, but not the DirecTV.

I turned off DHCP in the Cisco, set static addresses, and the DMZ. Now the DirecTV is happy, and my other services are happy.