Technical users could always just flash DD-WRT onto the device and = replace the Linksys/Cisco firmware; then you have a much more robust = system without any big brother stuff.
Or Cisco could just omit the big brother stuff. This is not a technological failure. In fact, automatic updates of router firmware are overdue. Good job on that front. It is the implications of your router dictating to you what sort of uses might be acceptable and what is not that's troubling, and that seems to have happened on several levels in this product. ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net "We call it the 'one bite at the apple' rule. Give me one chance [and] then I won't contact you again." - Direct Marketing Ass'n position on e-mail spam(CNN) With 24 million small businesses in the US alone, that's way too many apples.