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Complete internet downtime is no laughing matter, but more frightening still is the prospect that the world’s data flow is completely beheld to a giant, taciturn Linksys WiFi router. South Park clip embedded after the break — we’re still trying to decide whether this trumps the Aqua Teen episode where they meet the Wwwyzzerdd, freakish master of the internet.Continue reading Screen Grabs: giant Linksys WiFi router is The Internet

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Filed under: Wireless, Networking

Linksys is keeping us busy with their new Ultra RangePlus family of home networking gear. Announced are the draft 802.11n Gigabit Router ($130 WRT310N, pictured), the draft-N Broadband Router ($100 WRT160N), and a trio of Dual-Band draft-N products including a USB Notebook Adapter ($80 WUSB600N), an ExpressCard Adapter ($80 WEC600N), and new Gaming Adapter ($90 WGA600N). The WRT310N and WRT160N both feature new un-Linksys designs with a dumbed-down, flash-based user interface and enhanced RangePlus internal antenna to keep the clutter down. The dual-band gear split the load between 5GHz (HD streaming or gaming) and 2.4GHz (everything else). The WGA600N, WUSB600N and WEC600N will be available soon, the others now.

 

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Source: Thomas Ricker

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T-Mobile’s HotSpot @Home already brings WiFi VoIP to compatible cell phones, and the latest FCC filing from T-Mo and Linksys indicates that soon all the phones in your pad will be able to get in on the action: say hello to the WRTU54G. Apart from the T-Mobile branding and the two phone jacks on the back, the router features two user-accessible SIM card slots, which appear to be used to configure up to two phone lines — we’re not sure if they’re VoIP or cell, however.

[Via TG Daily]

 

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Source: Nilay Patel

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Well, it looks like Cisco CEO John Chambers spoke a little too soon last Friday when he said that the Linksys brand was going the way of the dodo — Cisco is now saying that it will continue selling Linksys-branded products “in the near term,” and that changes would only come “if and when these changes add value to our customers’ decision making processes.” In other words, Linksys ain’t dead yet, but the axe is still mighty close.

 

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Office Depot Featured Gadget: Xbox 360 Platinum System Packs the power to bring games to life!

Source: Nilay Patel

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Linksys fanboys, if there even are such creatures, best get used to seeing a lot more Cisco and a lot less of their favorite brand, as Cisco CEO John Chambers recently announced at a European roundtable discussion (video after the jump) that Linksys products would now sport the Cisco name. Chambers was quoted as saying that “it would all come, over time, into a Cisco brand,” and he also noted that the reason the Linksys name was kept alive was because “it was better known in the US than even Cisco was for the consumer.” As the firm “goes globally,” he concluded, there would be “little advantage” in keeping it around. Sayonara, dear Linksys.

[Via TheInquirer]Continue reading Cisco axes Linksys branding

 

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Office Depot Featured Gadget: Xbox 360 Platinum System Packs the power to bring games to life!

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