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I have a good mix of consumer gear from various brands. The great products in that class are rare, but the only brand that sees permanent bench duty here is D-Link. Not a single piece of their stuff in service. Lots in the closet. WAPs, routers, cards of various types. "Enterprise Class" my foot.
Oh they can be made to work, for simple things, for a while, but I won't put them in front of anything important. A week later the mysterious customer calls begin and too often that means a site visit. The rule has become: if you want it to co-exist with other brands, use any feature depth, or aren't comfortable giving it a hard reset every couple days, avoid D-Link. "But the box says..." Thptpht!
My prejudice built over time. For eons I retained the hope that the-next-firmware-update would take care of problems. In truth it usually causes as many or just rearrages buttons. I finally realized D-Link develops code using the infinite monkeys on acid principle, and gave up on them.
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There are a vast number of people who are uninformed and heavily propagandized, but fundamentally decent. The propaganda that inundates them is effective when unchallenged, but much of it goes only skin deep. If they can be brought to raise questions and apply their decent instincts and basic intelligence, many people quickly escape the confines of the doctrinal system and are willing to do something to help others who are really suffering and oppressed." -Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media, p. 195
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