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Summary: Excellent for short range projects
Review: I have had one for about one year and have some complaints, but it does function as promised. Once you manage to get the thing connected it works fine but it does have some flaws.If your looking to have a simple solution for short range wireless networking needs, flexibilty of moving furniture in offices around with out wiring changes, or having a back up wireless adapter for travel this is great. If your looking for an accross the house device, you should probably look elsewhere. It can provide excellent networking support from a range of about 50 feet, including through walls and doors, without any lag in the connections. However anything further and you are subjected to up and down connections and dropped signals in mid transfers. I rate this as an excellent piece of equipment for a business traveler, who might have a company supplied travel laptop that wants cross platform connectivity, but for home use covering big areas there are better alternatives.
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Summary: WUSB11 v2.8 DOES work with TiVo
Review: Folks, I got a new WUSB11 v2.8 for Christmas, and I had read all of the reviews concerning the limitations of v2.8. Needless to say, I was really bummed that I was not going to be able to get TiVo on-line. However, all you need to do is logon to your account at tivo.com, tell them that you have a WUSB11 v2.8, and they will push you an update to the TiVo software. It took a couple of days, but after they pushed the new software, I was up and running. No more phone cords, and now I have the Home Media option as well. As for only 4 stars, I'm having a heck of a time getting one of these up and running on an old Win98 machine that I have. I've followed the directions with no luck...
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Summary: Very flakey device, works...sometimes.
Review: Let me start by saying that I have the version 2.2 of this device, so hopefully the later versions fixed some serious problems. This device works, some of the time. I used it about 30 feet from a Linksys WAP11 device, and it gave me 100% signal strength. Throughout the day, that signal strength would jump radically from 100% to 10% to 0% to 50%. It is extremely flakey, and very very frustrating. I replaced it with a Linksys WET11 device which has a bigger antenna, and so far has worked like a charm 100% of the time. I am in love with the WET11. It's one-time configuration can be daunting to the layman, but once configured, you can connect it to any ethernet equipped device, and not need any other drivers. Do not get the WUSB11 if you can afford the WET11.
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Summary: Great solid product!
Review: I bought one of these nifty devices just to check it out and it worked fine on XP. It was easy to install. In fact, I liked it so much that I bought another for an older ME machine. I was not disappointed with this product, even though it cost more than comparable wireless USB adapters.
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Summary: good adapter disaster utility software
Review: it's the best adapter that i've tried so far. it picked up the network instantly and it didn't lose connection upon restart or wakeup of windows, which had been the problem w/ an smc and microsoft adapter. give it 4 star is b/c of the utility software that came w/ it. it's simply a horrer. first after double click on the install.exe it just flashed, and didn't show the typical installation screen. then i found it in the "all programs" menu. but when i tried to start it it claimed that a file was missing, wlan.ini. i copied the file from the cd to the installed folder. the utility program started. but, it insisted that it couldn't find an access point even though it's connected! turning off windows wireless zero configuration didn't help. somebody had said that simply forget about the utility program and use windows to manage it. he's quite right. w/ one caveat though - every few minutes windows would get confused, disconnect me and say that "there's more than one network available". uncheck "use windows to configure my wireless networks" seemed to have solved this problem (i did assign ip etc. manually in the first place).
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Summary: Perfectly Wonderful
Review: We just got this a few months ago, and it works perfect! I've been happy with it, and have had no problems with it. The router is on the second floor, and this adapter is 3 floors below in the basement, and we have never had a reception problem at all. I recomend it to anyone I see talking about networking their computers.
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Summary: Buyer be aware
Review: I've been on the phone over four hours with customer support and I still have problems with this wireless device. About once a day, the wireless connection disappears for no reason and I cannot reconnect unless I reboot. Customer support has informed me to download a new driver from the website, but it still does not work. Then they suggested that I reinstall Windows XP (a very long process for those who are unaware) and it still does not work. I am installing this wireless device on a new computer that I bought from one of the top two computer manufacturers so I know the problem does not exist with the computer. Please do your research before purchasing this device.
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Summary: For those having problem with WEP
Review: For those having problem with WEP, why don't you give it a try to use HEX instead of ASCII. As far as I know, there are Network Key incompatibility issues among wireless network adapters and access points of different brand names. This usually can be taken care of by using HEX in the Network Key. I understand that this could be a little bit troublesome. But you'll just have to set it up once.
The only reason that I didn't give it 5-star is because sometimes my pc could not recognize the device at boot-up and I had to connect/disconnect the usb plug. But this sympton seems went away since I updated the misc. motherboard drivers last month.
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Summary: good stuff
Review: This worked very well with my Series2 Tivo. Just remmeber that you have to update your Tivo software first (over dialup, whick took 90 minutes) to 5.1b BEFORE the Tivo will recognize the adapter.
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Summary: Bad software, QA, and support
Review: My installation came back telling me I was missing files. Tech support walked me through uninstall and reinstall -- which as a software engineer I already tried several times. Finally she said it was bad and I needed to exchange it. I knew it wasn't but figured I'd give it a try anyway -- wasting my time and their money. Same problem with new one, er rather, that wasn't the problem in the first place. I checked that my system was current (win2k SP4). Tried again. Missing files. Try to call tech support... 1 hour and 18 minutes later STILL NO ANSWER. Every 30 seconds a "thank you for your call" message repeats, ad nauseum. So I searched the online support http://www.linksys.com/support. No results turned up for a search on "missing files". I tried all combinations from the error message that I thought might return some results. Nothing. Surely this can't be the first time ever this error has popped up?! Not to mention the typo in the error message! I will never buy linksys again. I am taking both units back tomorrow and trying NetGear. T Shane Bostick
Boise, Idaho
tbostick78@yahoo.com
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