I don't honestly know what to think about this thing

When I bought my new Acer laptop computer a few months ago, I decided I had better get a wireless router, otherwise the advantages of the laptop would be pretty well useless. Why buy something you can carry around the house if you have to be tethered to a cable?

So I bought this Linksys router. As the documentation (and the guy at Best Buy) promised, it WAS easy enough to set up.

Good thing, too.

Why? Because I am setting it up CONSTANTLY.

I don't know why, but at least three times a week, I lose my internet connection on the laptop. The modem is cool; Time Warner says I have service, and my wired computer is OK, so what's the deal?

The deal is that the router "forgets" there is internet flowing through it. So I reset everything and reconfigure my network from the ground up, and away we go again.

As far as signal strength goes, it is excellent. It is about 200 feet from the router's location to the farthest corner of my back yard. And I get 95-100% signal --according to Windows Vista -- at that distance. It makes using the computer outside very easy.

I just wish it would quit trying my patience!