Linksys Firmware Upgrade for Wi-Fi Routers Angers Some

**chowur** · 2012-06-30 11:42

Users posting on the Cisco Home Community forum and the U.K.-based site PC Gamer said they had turned on their Linksys EA3500 and EA4500 routers earlier this week and found they were running a new firmware version. The new firmware presented a login screen for the Cisco Connect Cloud instead of the LAN-based router management interface that had come up previously, they said.

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**t8ntlikly** · 2012-07-01 09:14

and we thought Facebook was bad!...Wonder if it has happened to anyone on this side of the pond

***ruirib*** · 2012-07-01 09:53

I think they have every reason to be outraged. No updates should be installed without the explicit consent of the users. I hope they get what they deserve. I really do not understand how people who run these companies haven't yet understood this is a stupid thing to do and it will cost them, hopefully dearly.

**Medico** · 2012-07-01 11:27

I do not see this on my Linksys router (e4200). I believe the firmware version (1.0.03) is still what it was prior to this, and I do not see this change.