Cisco Media Hub reviewed, punched like a baby
By Thomas Ricker 
posted Mar 26th 2009 12:20PM
posted Mar 26th 2009 12:20PM
Cisco's been trying to make themselves comfortable in our living rooms over the last few years with variable success. For Cisco, the more audio, home spun video, TV, and just plain data they can entice you to push around your house, and The Net in general, translates to warm willowy cash riding an OSPF packet direct into Cisco's pocket. Now we've got a review from HotHardware of Cisco's latest, the Linksys Media Hub Network Attached Storage device. Unfortunately for Cisco, the review politely ripped the Media Hub to shreds. It's most compelling feature -- the intuitive, built-in, Internet accessible Media Browser -- would "lose" media and "frequently" degrade performance during database rebuilds that kicked off throughout the day. Issues that could be solved via firmware update -- someday... probably. The price is also set too high compared to other NAS devices in the same capacity range. For about the same dough, you can get the Business Edition of the 2TB Maxtor Central Axis NAS preferred by HH. Fortunately for you, you've seen the review prior to handing Cisco your $350. You did wait for the review, right?
Fail!
..yes you did!
no
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good to know engadget punches babies...and here i am still kicking kittens and puppies
They could be smacking babies with a sack full of kittens and bricks. I imagine the sound of that is horrific, and slightly amusing in some sick twisted way.
I believe the sound is described in text as this "hissAHHthud, HissAhhthud, urghERthud, erghERthud"
Omg...why did I actually play that scene through in my mind...
Yo, we love kittens here. You three better knock that off immediately.
I love kittens too! They taste like chicken ;)
Hmm cant you get an external hdd plus a wrt610n or wrt600n for cheaper?
Whoops - not the most well developed product but in my experience that's what's to be expected from the Linksys heritage. I thought Cisco was going to be providing lots of dough, engineering and design work but apparently it's still to come. (Being generous here.) But Linksys does succeed at being among the first to market for entry level products. I'll be staying away but I do hope that they improve for the sake of those who do jump on this.
Whats funny is that you can get a wrt610n (or the wrt600n) with an external hdd for cheaper. both those router models have usb ports for external hdd network access. the latest firmware fixes a lot of the bugs with the feature.
Both models also support dd-wrt.
Come on Cisco, i KNOW you can produce better than this
It's all this hybrid branded Linksys/Cisco crap, it's all been garbage.
Hmm, Pedobear will not be amused at this turn of events.
go back to Digg
That was a reference to the old announcement article about the media hub, which case a user with the name Pedobear (and the avatar) was the first person to post. The link is even right there in the article. Look I even explained it to you.
Reviews lie in the eyes/ears/other organs of the reviewer.
Smallnetbuilders analysis of Maxtor is worse than the linksys. In anycase it seems Buffalo and WD are the ones producing better home NAS devices in any case.
http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/component/option,com_nas/Itemid,190/
I beta tested this and the software browser worked well for what it was. I never experienced the disappearing files while the database was updating. I also suggested to Cisco a lower price point in the $199 to $250 range for the exact model that was tested. Looks like they didn't listen and they're getting ripped for it.
"translates to warm willowy cash riding an OSPF packet direct into Cisco's pocket"
...it would more likely be an EIGRP packet if it is has to do with Cisco
that's a lot of errors
NOooooooooooooooo i didnt wait and bought one right away. It does suck but it plays nice with my xbox 360.
Yah know the review could have been condensed down to:
the thing is a Linksys....end of review.
Linksys makes the world's worst firmware for ANYTHING they touch. The only reason I would go near one is to hack a third party firmware onto the thing....but even then.