Linksys routers

Raised as a usability problem by 7 people on Hacker News over 13 years (2013–2025), in 6 threads.

People raised many different problems with Linksys routers, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 6 complaints

Web UI is slow and times out constantly, and the app's features are badly designed2025-12-05
Setup requires switching to a network with no internet, so people get confused and can't look up instructions2024-07-09
App often can't locate the router on the network, even when connected to its WiFi2021-04-04
Router's USB file sharing uses outdated Samba 1.0, so Windows 10 won't browse it by default2019-05-14
Admin UI throws an error on Mac browsers whenever a change is committed2016-11-21
Opening the upgrade URL in a browser bricks the router, requiring a complex recovery procedure2013-04-06