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Summary: No range, no bandwidth, no customer service, no use
Review: I have a WAP11 access point and WPC11 PC card.In a word, no range, no throughput and no customer service. Forget about 150 meters indoors, it drops off at about 10 meters, and that is line of sight! At that point the signal strength goes down to about 30% where it is unreliable. Even when the PC is 5 feet from the access point, throughput is at about 1MBPS instead of 11 (even though the monitor claims its 11). Moving away doesn't reduce the speed. It stays at 11 all the way until it just disconnects. I had hanging problems, but frankly, the product is so useless I haven't even used it enough to really give it a workout. Since it barely works outside of the room that contains the access point, I might as well just wire it up. Customer service? I've sent 2 emails that went unanswered. I've called in and waited for an hour only to have someone take my name for a call back. They did call back! Only it was 5 days later and I wasn't home. I waited on hold only to have someone pick up who sounded on his death bed. I only got 3 sentences out when he hung up on me. I could go on. I only got through to someone moderately helpful twice. Both suggested I buy an antennae, saying that it would of course void the warrantee. I am kicking myself for just assuming that the product really worked and letting my 30 day return period expire.
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Summary: Mine didn't work for long
Review: Worked great when it worked but too often it didn't, and finally (about 2 months in) it didn't work at all. I have since dismantled my system and cancelled DSL, not wanting to invest again in a new WAP. Bottom line: if you need a system that you can just plug in and forget about, and which is 100% reliable, I think you (and I) will have to wait for the next generation. If you are willing to become the part time IT person in you home, i.e. if this is a hobby for you, go for it. Keep in mind, this is just my experience. It could be that mine was the only one they made that didn't work.
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Summary: Low Performance
Review: Well, the performance decrease of 50% when using this product almost made me send it back. The customer support sent me over the top....it's non-existent, little help and hard to get hold of....Several others that I know have also since complained of the speed performance. Even if you disable the wireless acess the performance is very much impared when in use, as compared to being just attached to the cable modem directly. It was easy to install and get going. Not sure yet if it's worth the price.
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Summary: Technical support needs help - Don't upgrade!
Review: I was an early adopter of this product last summer. When I bought the product the firmware only supported 64-bit encryption. For some reason, I thought I should upgrade to the latest firmware to get 128 bit encryption even though the product worked fine. (DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME!!) I upgraded to the latest firmware version online which was 1.39.2. The upgrade went smoothly at first. However, shortly after using the service the Internet conneciton would freeze about every five minutes requiringa reboot of the router. (A significant pain if you wanted to use the wireless feature from another room.) I have placed several calls to their tech support. Each call results in a well intentioned first level technician trying everything they can think of then saying a second level technician will call me back. I got one call while I was out and haven't heard anything since. Calling back gets me another one of those well intentioned 1st level technicians who thought of "one more thing". This is on top of the month and a half I had to wait for an XP driver. It was as if Linksys was "surprised" that XP was being released and was unprepared to release a driver. Not a good sign for future support. My suggestion is to check ou the SMC product or D-link until Linksys can get their support organization together. I installed an SMC router for my sister and it is working flawlessly (although I haven't needed to call technical support on that one yet . . .)
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Summary: LAN2LAN interbuilding with firmware 1.4g
Review: Actually I had purchased this product more than a year ago.
But only after Linksys release the latest firmware 1.4g together with SNMP utility 1.7d.2, it become really usefull item.
I live 4 km from my office - a 10 story building, at 14th floor of multi tenant building. I purchased a RPTNC to N male jumper/adapter, 20 ft of LMR-400 cable and a 24 dB gain semi grid parabolic antenna. I installed them on each end (one in my office, another one in my condo's). With little pointing work, voila, I got connected to my office at 11 Mbps (actually I run Linux server at the office, and I got FTP throughput of 5.5 Mbps from home to office, a very good number).
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Summary: OK, Just OK, not if you want customer support
Review: For the price, I guess its good. but connectivity was very bad. I could not even a good signal strength in the next room. I had to reload the access point every day. Support (waiting on line for over 1 hour with them) told me I should upgrade the fimware, which I did. Then everything went crazy, Linksys would not retain my configuration or IP address. So I called support and they suggested another file. still same thing. so finally fed up and returned it and got a netgear mr314 (which was the same price as only a access point, on sale), which so far has no problems and gives better range. I go outside my house i stilll have signal.
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Summary: A solid wireless network solution
Review: I use this wireless hub at work with 9 Wireless laptop cards and have no complaints. Setup is pretty straight forward (really simple in Win 2000 as you can swap out wireless with standard PC network cards). Also since this product utilizes the 802.1 standard can easily be integrated with other wireless solutions (we use ours with another wireless hub from Adtron as well).
For a home application however you would be better going with the switch version of this as you would get better multiuser performance.
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Summary: Totally sweet
Review: Purchased the WAP11 access point + the PCMCIA card for my laptop and plugged it in with little to no configuration and it works beautifully. Full range in my apartment with no issues. I have a cisco dsl router that I run to a 5 port hub. I hooked in the WAP11 on 1 of the ports while I have 2 other PC's physically hooked into the hub via NIC's. Dropped the WAP11 on top of 1 of the PC's under a desk and I was in business. Writing this review wirelessly right now on my 20th floor deck overlooking downtown Seattle. I love this thing... Should have bought it months ago. I must for anyone who telecommutes.
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Summary: Freedom to roam...
Review: For the price this is the way to go if you don't want to wire with cat5. The configuration software was a little buggy until a reload but all in all this products does what it's made to do... give you freedom from wires.
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Summary: Great for mixed networks, such as Macs & PCs
Review: There are a considerable number of wireless networking options available. As a result, I did a lot of casual research before choosing the Linksys Wireless Access Point (model: WAP11). My existing network consisted of one Linksys 4 port Etherfast Cable/DSL Router (model BEFSR71), one Toshiba cable modem, three wired desktop PCs (two running Windows 2000 & one running Windows XP) and one Apple Titanium Powerbook G4 running OS X 10.1.2 that I desired to connect wirelessly via an Apple Airport Card. Presently, I don't have a PC I want to connect wirelessly to the network. Installation of the Linksys WAP was relatively painless. I hooked up the Linksys WAP to our wired router via Ethernet patch cable and to my desktop PC via USB. The USB connection to the WAP is temporary -- it's only needed to configure the WAP via USB. There's an SNMP configuration utility included if you don't have USB or are running Linux or UNIX and there's a configurable Management Information Base (MIB) file included on the WAP's setup CD. I didn't really research how someone with access *only* to Macs would configure the WAP, but I didn't have trouble finding a number of Apple users talking about the Linksys WAP11 and their Airport cards, so it shouldn't be too difficult. As a precaution, I left the WAP connected via USB to my PC desktop until I had my Titanium Powerbook with its new Airport card talking successfully with the WAP. For awhile, I was very concerned that the Airport connection status was always reporting: "Status not available" on my Powerbook, but then I discovered on a deja.com discussion thread that is the normal response for an Airport card connected to a non-Airport base station. The most important thing to getting an Apple Airport card to talk successfully and securely with the Linksys WAP is to properly enter the passcode when connecting: If you use either 64 bit or 128 bit WEP (Wireless Encryption Protocol, if I remember right), you have to enter the passcode/password on your Apple in HEX (not plain text). If you configure the WAP to use 64 bit WEP security, your password will be translated to a 10 digit HEX code by the WAP's configuration utility -- write this down somewhere, and enter it within quotation marks (such as "C04D64E9D2") when prompted by your Mac's Airport card. If you configure the WAP to use 128 bit WEP security, your password will be translated into a handy dandy 26 digit HEX code by the WAP's configuration utility -- write this down somewhere (please!) and enter it preceded by a dollar ($) sign, such as: $C04D64E9D2C04D64E9D21E4D7B. I can't begin to tell you how many times I entered my plain text passcode or mis-entered my 128-bit HEX encoded key, or forgot the $, before I discovered my error while researching online.
After successful configuration of the Linksys WAP and wireless card, I was surfing wirelessly (and giddily) on my Titanium Powerbook G4 with Airport card while sitting downstairs and on the opposite side of the house from my WAP, and I still had a little over 50% signal strength (1.5 walls and 1 floor between the WAP and card). The range is such that I can connect wirelessly from my backyard deck, as well, though at obviously degraded transfer speeds. Experiment with the location and height of your WAP for best results. Mine is located in a doorway at about waist level, overlooking a half-wall that leads to an open stairway and vaulted ceiling. Apple owners should note the Linksys WAP is a fraction of the price of an Apple Airport Base Station, and allows Mac & PC users 128 bit WEP security. It doesn't support AppleTalk and some of the other things the Airport Base Station does, but for my needs and my money, the Linksys WAP is a definite good buy.
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