Digital Home Thoughts: Draft 802.11n: How I Loathe Thee

I brought up this issue just a couple of months ago, but I feel the need to rant again: I'm incredibly dismayed at how poorly some modern networking equipment operates together. Or, rather, doesn't operate well together. I have a brand new MSI Wind netbook, and a brand new Linksys WRT310N. The screenshot above shows just how successful these two pieces of hardware work together. I've loaded the latest firmware on the Linksys router, and the latest WiFi drivers onto the MSI Wind, and it still doesn't operate correctly. Everything seemed to be working great for the first two days - I successfully used FolderShare to push more than 45 GB of data onto the MSI Wind over the weekend, and the connection never dropped. Today, I can't get it to connect at all unless I repair the connection or disable then re-enable it. I'm completely baffled. It's not like I'm trying to connect some laptop from 2000 with a PCMCIA 802.11b card - this is a brand new netbook with a 802.11b/g chip. Why don't these companies test their gear to make sure they interoperate? I'll try fiddling with it for a few more days, but I'll likely end up returning this Linksys WRT310N and going back to my trusty WRT54G router. What a disappointment!