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All suffered from the same problem--inadequate documentation.
The router comes packed with a CD that is supposedly a wizard for
installing the router and creating the local network. The wizard doesn't
work if there was a prior wireless router installed, and there is no
documentation on what to do manually in that case, no explanation of
what to look for in TCP/IP settings, no phone number to call for the
promised 24/7 support.
The two cell phones came with CDs covering the stuff you can figure out
intuitively and promotions for all the neat tones and pictures you can
download for a charge, but with no documentation on all the features and
settings that are not intuitive.
My wife will probably end up keeping the LG phone and give up on the
convenience features she selected it for, only because her old one is
dying a natural death and the LG phone less unintuitive than the
Motorola phone. As for the router, I'm now going to pay a guy $250 to
come troubleshoot the network--something I ought be be able to do myself
if Windows XP weren't such a documentation wasteland--and either install
the new router or keep the old one, whichever solution seems to promise
more stability.
But all in all this has been a frustrating week dealing with products
that ought to have decent documentation. Fie on companies that see
documentation as a drain on profits.
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