[cortez]

interesting. i on the other hand have been using the Linksys N router as the primary router/wireless router with Verizon FiOS for 5 months without any issues. we're using 7 laptops ranging from 8 months to 2.5 years old (5 for family and 2 work laptops for me and the wife ). my (personal) laptop is the only one with an internal wireless N card and it's worked flawlessly during the past 5 months. all of the laptops are all Dells with 5 running Vista Ultimate and 2 running XP. maybe it's a Dell thing... who knows, after reading this, i'm counting my blessings and praying to the wireless network gods to not punish me for using Linksys.