October 17, 2007 in the late evening
· Filed under consumer rights, rant, trendnet, wireless router
A replacement TEW-432BRP wireless router finally came from Trendnet via FedEx. I experienced random reset on an apparently defective TEW-432BRP wireless router. With my first report of the problem, Trendnet promptly asked to RMA it.
Minor gripes of the RMA process and the replacement unit 
- I had to mail the unit back in my own expense first. $8.95 with USPS first class including $0.65 for receipt confirmation. The ‘Free after MIR (mail-in rebate)” price tag motivated my purchase at first place. Read the rest of this entry »
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September 19, 2007 in the wee hours
· Filed under trendnet, wireless router
After three weeks use of the Trendnet TEW-432BRP wireless router, I experienced more serious problems.
- The unit resets itself randomly (every several hours or less than a couple of minutes). The computers/laptops behind it see ‘network disconnected’ then ‘network connected’, for both wireless and wired connections. No reasons were logged in the router log besides the fact it resets. All front LEDs go off dark then back on. Read the rest of this entry »
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August 12, 2007 in the wee hours
· Filed under broadband router, live journal, netgear, networking, site_news, technology, trendnet
I bought a trendnet wireless router recently from CompUSA. Besides it is only four five dollars after mail-in rebates, I have some desperate needs to replace my existing Netgear MR814v2 wireless router.
- It seems that Netgear has no intention whatsoever to add support of WPA on MR814v2. Desperate people on the Net attempted to apply MR814v3 firmware to it in order to gain WPA functionality and had failed miserably. I don’t have the time or skill to add WPA support based on the open-source firmware provided by Netgear. Nobody else does either Read the rest of this entry »
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