Cisco Linksys Routers Still Don't Support IPv6 380
Julie188 writes "It's 2011, IPv4 addresses are officially exhausted, and the world's largest router maker, Cisco, still doesn't support IPv6 in its best-selling line of Linksys wireless routers. This is true even for the new E4200 router released just last month (priced at $180). The company has promised to add IPv6 to the E4200 by the spring. But it has not been specific about if and how it will offer an IPv6 upgrade to the millions of other Linksys routers currently running in homes and small businesses."
Re:ipv6 support on Cisco/Linksys routers (Score:4, Interesting)
I just started using Tomato a couple years ago on my WRT54Gv4. Did some benchmarks on speedtest.net before and after.
HyperWRT (based on the original Linksys FW) maxed out around 20mbps.
Tomato managed to max out my 25mbps FiOS line.
So Tomato saved me from a hardware upgrade. Plus the web interface is much prettier and has traffic graphs.
Re:ipv6 support on Cisco/Linksys routers (Score:4, Interesting)
For the performance gain you see by going to dd-wrt, I've seen the same leap by going from dd-wrt to the tomato firmware. (The features in dd-wrt out pace the weak hardware in the devices, anyway).
For a basic home wireless router, the hardware is pretty great. Don't ask it for much more, though. :)
Considering what else is out there, I don't think I'll be buying any more Linksys products. The cost/benefit doesn't pan out. Nearly identical equipment is available for half as much, and better is available for less.