Buying Cisco Certified Refurbished Vs. New Does anyone know how safe it is to buy this Linksys WET610N refurbished. It is stated to be Cisco Certified Refurbished, but there are some negative comments about this. If anyone has any experience with this any advice would be helpful. Thanks. Buying Cisco Certified Refurbished Vs. New Does anyone know how safe it is to buy this Linksys WET610N refurbished. It is stated to be Cisco Certified Refurbished, but there are some negative... » Read More Buying Cisco Certified Refurbished Vs. New Does anyone know how safe it is to buy this Linksys WET610N refurbished. It is stated to be Cisco Certified Refurbished, but there are some negative comments about this. If anyone has any experience with this any advice would be helpful. Thanks. « Show Less
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It could have been used. They can replace the protective plastic and other parts/cables or maybe even replace the entire case leaving the old guts inside.
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I also have a Linksys refurbished item...it came with protective plastic, but was not in the original box. While it looked perfect, I'm sure that it was used for some period of time. Works well for me, though. My last router was also an "open box" item from a local electronics store, it was fine, too. You just have to be sure to do a "factory reset" before working with them to clear any existing settings.
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Cannot tell you what to buy but Refurbished should be a good buy and same performance as new however, the SanDIsk New drive will have a 3 year warranty and I don't know how long the Refurbished one will have so you should check that out. I personally would buy the new one and since the drive has no moving parts, I cannot understand how they break and how they can refurbish them.
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no clue. this is the first time i have bought refurbished...and the last time.
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I buy all my photo equipment and power tools "Refurbished" whenever it is available. The reason is that the refurbished item is inspected and tested in every way before it is offered back to the public. I have never received a refurbished item that had any issues mechanically or cosmetic. On the other hand, I have frequently had to return "New" items for not working as they should. For me, Refurbished is BETTER than new.
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This product is branded Cisco on the outside and in the firmware. Linksys and Cisco are the same company as of 2003/2004.
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Where did you get this information? Don't spread false rumors please. On the netgear forums you can actually see people post pics of both pcbs with identical components. Nothing was changed except the outer box. THEY ARE BOTH THE SAME. 3700 v2 has not come out yet. Pretty much all you want is to look for the rev21 boards as those are the best ones out there. For the 3700 usually a red box means its rev21 the yellow boxe means you need to check the upc to make sure. 37av is the same as a red box rev21.The major rev you need to stay away from is rev15, its reported with the most major problems.http://forum1.netgear.com/showthread.php?t=52714&page;=1 Where did you get this information? Don't spread false rumors please. On the netgear forums you can actually see people post pics of both pcbs with identical components. Nothing was changed except the outer box. THEY ARE BOTH THE SAME. 3700 v2 has not come out yet. Pretty much all you want is to look for the rev21 boards as those are the best ones out there. For the 3700 usually a red box means its rev21 the yellow boxe means you need to check the upc to make sure. 37av is the same as a red box rev21.The major rev you need to stay away from is rev15, its reported... » Read More Where did you get this information? Don't spread false rumors please. On the netgear forums you can actually see people post pics of both pcbs with identical components. Nothing was changed except the outer box. THEY ARE BOTH THE SAME. 3700 v2 has not come out yet. Pretty much all you want is to look for the rev21 boards as those are the best ones out there. For the 3700 usually a red box means its rev21 the yellow boxe means you need to check the upc to make sure. 37av is the same as a red box rev21.The major rev you need to stay away from is rev15, its reported with the most major problems.http://forum1.netgear.com/showthread.php?t=52714&page;=1 « Show Less
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> If you buy new, you should get a Version 2Not the case; it's completely unpredictable unless you find a vendor willing to check for you and ship a specific unit. I heard from one seller, through whom I've been watching for a v2 shipment from SanDisk, that the last batch they received were actually all older units (they could tell from the package design). Seems like the old stock is being unloaded now that the e200 series has been discontinued. So if the version makes a difference for your purposes, contact vendors and find someone willing to check for you. One advantage of refurbs is that it's less likely they'll have to cut open a factory package to do this. > If you buy new, you should get a Version 2Not the case; it's completely unpredictable unless you find a vendor willing to check for you and ship a specific unit. I heard from one seller, through whom I've been watching for a v2 shipment from SanDisk, that the last batch they received were actually all older units (they could tell from the package design). Seems like the old stock is being unloaded now that the e200 series has been discontinued. So if the version makes a difference for your purposes, contact vendors and find someone willing to check for you. One advantage of... » Read More > If you buy new, you should get a Version 2Not the case; it's completely unpredictable unless you find a vendor willing to check for you and ship a specific unit. I heard from one seller, through whom I've been watching for a v2 shipment from SanDisk, that the last batch they received were actually all older units (they could tell from the package design). Seems like the old stock is being unloaded now that the e200 series has been discontinued. So if the version makes a difference for your purposes, contact vendors and find someone willing to check for you. One advantage of refurbs is that it's less likely they'll have to cut open a factory package to do this. « Show Less
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The one that I got was actual Brother, and it was not a refurb Brother. I cannot tell from looking at this question if you are ordering the same thing from the same vendor that I did.
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This Combo set is new, my experience with Bosch is: if they are refurbished they are stamped and also carry the same warranty as new. I have purchased refurbished for years instead of new because of, better price, same warranty and they fix the bugs the tools ever had. I wish Bosch kept their service center here in my area open,I miss shopping there!
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Refurbished units are almost always good deals. Except for an insert statement indicating that my 340S was a refurbed unit, it looked brand new. Note that most recent map updates are not part of the refurbed package, but then I avoid the hassle and hazards of such downloads anyway. For the basic purpose of getting from point A to point B such updates are of little value to the vast majority of users.
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Don't know - I tried to make contact with the company and couldn't pull it from te order info. I will never buy refurbished again. It didn't last a year. Waste of money. I have owned a lot of routers and none have ever just quit working.
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I bought mine refurbished. And paid less than half of the original cost. Works great!!
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Some refurbuished products may have been repaired and some may just have been returned for no functional reason. There's no real way of knowing. But, in general, I'd say the extra warranty period is worth the small price difference. Now if the refurb cost 50% less, that might be a differnt story.
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Not a problem. However if you like to save big buy it from Sam's Club ( similar to Cisco ).you can return 90 days no questions asked.
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Yes, I think so. This device comes with the latest firmware. I tried getting a newer firmware version as soon as I purchased the device, but none was available on cisco website.
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The updated are only for V2 of this piece of garbage. NO information from Cisco about all of the earlier models, which they appear to have dropped support for soon after selling them. The last firmware for the earlier versions is from 2009, and there is nothing on there site about any trouble with them... search the model, and you find the vast majority of users looking for some firmware fix. None available from Cisco, and none of the open source alternatives support this model. There are a few comments about going back to OLDER firmware, but Cisco does not have it available, and after much searching I have found only broken links. This thing has sucked up way too much time ion troubleshooting for what it cost.
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i got a refurblished one from amazon. it could not be connected to operation interface by CD. it also could not be entered operation interface by 192.168.1.1 via IE. to the cloud-cisco i did not do it.