Your home network is functioning well.
Your home network is functioning well.
I believe he intended to mention it's widely recognized in Germany. Nearly all routers manufactured in Germany are produced by AVM, and most internet service providers rely on their devices. The equipment offers solid performance and great functionality! This varies depending on your location. In Germany, every IT professional is familiar with Linksys, yet practically no one uses their products, and they're virtually absent from residential settings. I suspect if you surveyed 1,000 households, you might discover a single model.
they previously held a significant presence in the small business sector, yet over the last few years they largely disengaged from active projects. around 2016, setting up a gigabit network with PoE access points and VLANs was feasible without relying on second-hand gear. Linksys dominated the market at that time. Considering networking hardware can remain functional for a long time, it seems unlikely I’m the only one still using fully stocked Linksys devices. I’ve only updated my router due to ongoing issues, and Linksys doesn’t offer a warranty if they lack inventory or replacement options for outdated models. So far, warranty validity appears uncertain.
You should also consider that missing some rooms without hardwired Ethernet doesn’t mean you’re relying mainly on WiFi. I only have computers in three rooms, all of which are wired—two near switches and one connected via a single cable, which didn’t justify the trouble of a wall jack.
I’m not keen on setting up complicated networks, yet the survey doesn’t fully address my needs. Because of the ISP’s odd IPTV configuration, PPPoE is currently active at the EPON modem, with IPv4 available only at this stage, but the link still receives native WAN IP directly through PPPoE. The connection offers 500Mbps down and 60Mbps up. The VIP add-on provides priority for international routing, though it doesn’t remove censorship by itself. A DMZ has been configured on the modem to direct external access to a second router—an Apple airport time capsule. Wi-Fi uses 802.11ac 3*3, which surprisingly lasted longer; I couldn’t fully utilize it with my current usage. Because of censorship, a VPN remains in place, and I’ve shared a virtual adapter over the airport LAN as a secondary gateway. Any LAN devices can connect by manually entering the gateway. My primary PC runs VMs via Hyper-V, so a virtual switch is set to share Ethernet for the host OS and all VMs. A persistent route is configured on my main PC to bypass the VPN and use the native broadband connection for certain destination IPs, which significantly reduces latency. These odd workarounds keep me satisfied while keeping the effort minimal.
It never fails to annoy me how modern OS claim stupid things like "no network", just because there is no Internet. Doubly so when they will sometimes try to bounce the interface because they insist that must be wrong.