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Philips MCi250 Wireless Broadband Internet Micro HiFi System

Philips MCi250 Wireless Broadband Internet Micro HiFi System

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Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Never Mind : returned mine already
Review: Well, I played with two of these systems, and based on it's configuration and usage over a corporate T1 line, I decided to purchase it for home use on a Cable\Wireless G configuration. All systems and networking components are bedded and stable, and provide continous 700 mpbs connectivity in late evening \ overnight \ morning. Surge protected power.

I've been a senior NT Engineer for over 8 years, but nothing would enable this machine to 'mate' with my linksys 2.4ghz router. No FAQ's were available, no user manual help; in fact the best resource were these reviews here! The machine even failed to work in 'auto everything' mode, and refused to work when setup with identical system configuration as my dell D500. So I went to UTP \ CAT5 \ BASET100.

Problems
- WEP code entry is clumsy and terribly implemented : lower case \upper case are the same characters.
- Entry of email addresses and other items give you <1 second to get it right per character cycle, and you cannot 'go back' - you can only delete and start from "A" again.
- Connectivity on UTP \ CAT5 \ BASE 100 within a small network was terrible : any machine rebooting resulted in the machine hanging, and play stopping.
- Random disconnects also caused the whole machine to CRASH and refuse to work again ("lost connection to proxy" messages when not using a proxy for example.
- 'lack' The backplane has numerous cutouts for more advanced connections (proper connectivity, extra components, SPDIF (?).

I already returned it after less than a week. I have no problem adopting new technology, but only if it actually works. This did not, and I strongly do NOT recommend it.


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