I've used their NIC cards w/o a problem. My dad uses their non wireless router switch and he's happy.
Have you thought to see if you have wireless neighbors? may pose a problem. I live in 0 lot line, when I was playing with a wireless laptop I was picking up a neighbors connection. Man he was sharing everything, logged on as admin too. Sometimes WinXP is just plain fun
I've been happy with my Linksys router swicth, I've only
Had to reset it once.
I've never hear or read, "that
insert name of device firewall sucks. " Then again I don't run anything mission critical either, so I don't worry too much. It's not like I have a database with credcard info on it. If someone really wants to look at my stuff that bad...then again, I say this be hind a firewall, behind a username, behind a log in name, bhind an anon server name....