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Originally posted by Rick:
Yep, for the most part, I'll have to agree with the original poster. This Z100g is more of a pain everyday I have it.

I don't know why I can't use it as a firewall in and out of my house and have everything inside the house open. Sometimes I can connect to another pc in my house, sometimes I can't. Sometimes I can remote to another pc in my house, sometimes I can't.

My guess is that most people that get this thing don't know about this forum to vent and end up putting the z100g on a shelf and never use it again. And yes, that monthly report they sent me is useless. It says almost the exact same numbers every month. I get unsolicited spam that has more useful info in it!

It's no wonder this thing is not used by more people. It's too hard to get anything done. They give you 30 days to try it out but it takes more than 30 days to figure out if it's yourself causing the problem or the router so by the time you figure out that the router is a total pain, it's too late, you're stuck with it.

Sometimes DHCP works, sometimes it doesn't. It has a "feature" to save your config so I do but then if I make a change and restore that config to reverse the change, nothing changes. What is the import/export thing supposed to do if not put settings back to the saved config??

I'm sure if you're more of a network guru than I am, this thing could be made to work the way I want it to, but that's not the audience this thing is being sold to.

I don't know of any "customer satisfaction" survey type thing that they do. If they would poll their customer and find out their complaints, they might be able to make this product better for the general public.