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Summary: Great product
Review: I have been using my old WAP11 for about two and a half years, and am happy to report that the unit works extremely well [I pair it with an Orinoco silver PC card]. The initial installation was simple and went smoothly. Last spring, I upgraded the firmware to bring in the latest DHCP functionality; this was also an easy process. It sits in the corner of the room, quietly forgotten, performing its function without a hitch; which is how I like it!I give this little unit top marks.
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Summary: Linksys wap11
Review: I found the access points to work trouble free and the repeater function is very usefull but it slows everything down.found support is of little or no help at all.It is also a joy to buy from Amazon.com fast shipping and one of the access points worked but had no range I was sent a replacement in less then 3 days.
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Summary: Periodically WAP11 v2.6 goes into outer space
Review: Works fine but several times per week it lost its mind as the firmware got lost. Sometimes returned on its own after a few minutes, sometimes requires reboot/restart, and once it never came back. Dealer replaced unit, which exhibited similar behavior. Apparently, just my guess, noise (RF, line, Ethernet) got interpreted as bad data and it gets lost trying to process it. New firmware (v 1.07) made it worse. Tech support is clueless, and one of them suggested using a competitors product: NetGear MR814. I have no doubt the WAP11 works well in a quiet environment. Version 2.8 is supposed to be better, they say....
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Summary: Not all its cracked up to be.
Review: Ultimately, I ended up throwing this WAP away after it stopped functioning. You are far better off spending the extra money for an 802.11g WAP (54 Mbps versus 11 Mbps). Unlike other WAPs, this device can connect to another WAP and act as a bridge. If you have two Ethernet networks and want to connect them, it is relatively painless with this device. That was my original rationalization for buying this product. Turns out I never really needed the extra functionality. I was never impressed with the 10 Mbps speed. The first time around setup was painless. However, reinstalling the software under XP became problematic. The USB driver/software from Linksys caused my Windows XP machine to blue-screen and crash. It caused my Windows ME system to hang periodically. I would recommend you pass on this product and get an 802.11g WAP. They are faster (54/100+Mbps) AND backwards compatible with your existing 802.11b network cards.
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Summary: Super Product!
Review: I am really pleased with this product. I get excellent connection with my laptop and am excited to have a wireless solution at such a small cost.
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Summary: Works Great
Review: I purchased this WAP and it works great just plugged it in to my existing switch on my wired lan and did a couple setting changes programed in an ip address and i was set. I have 2 laptops that currently use the WAP running 64bit encryption with mac filtering on. I have had this AP for for 7 months now and only had to power it off and power back on once. I get great distance with it, the lowest it goes is 50-60% thats through 5 walls. The documentation lacks but linksys is known to have bad docs.
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Summary: Stopped working after 4 months
Review: Initial setup was nice, particularly compared to D-Link, (the tech decided the D-Link was broken). But I came home from vacation and its not sending out a signal anymore. The WAP11 connects to the LAN fine, but none of the laptops are getting any signalfrom it. Tech support was laughably inept. Now I've figured out the reset button doesn't actually do anything. They want me to upgrade firmware a third time. DSL Reports.com says there's a problem with the latest firmware. I wish I could buy one of these things and it would just work.
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Summary: WAP11 Limited
Review: I am disappointed with this product. I bought an early release, in March 2001. I found the manual to be poor and the technical assistance poorer -- often I had to keep calling until I got lucky and I found someone who knew something. My access point is about 40 feet from my computer (although it is down one flight) and my connection is always weak. Recently, my connection has often been too weak to work and Linksys has not been able to give me any help diagnosing the problem.
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Summary: Great device, but get version 2.6, NOT 2.2 !!!
Review: I've used the Linksys WAP11 since it had no version number, and I've used the 2.2 version. Both perform excellently (relatively speaking, that is, no product lives up to the manufacturer's claims). And better yet, the NEW version 2.6 can be used in 5 (five) different modes, including Repeating mode (which makes the Linksys WSB24 Signal Booster obsolete (which is why Linksys has discontinued it). Many similar products out there are limited to one or two modes. Amazon and most other sites are unclear regarding the version and might sell you an older model, so be sure to get version 2.6. Download the User Guide .pdf and see pages 18-21, which describes all 5 modes. Ok, twist my arm, here's a quick summary; note: for all of these descriptions, think of the device as having 2 sides to it (perhaps In and Out; maybe Left/Right). (1) Access Point: this is the original mode which allows wireless devices to connect via the device to a wired network; so from your laptop's point of view (here assumed wireless), the device takes wireless Input and turns it into wired Output. (2) Access Point Client: in this mode the device takes a switch (or a hub, or a single computer) which is hardwired to the device and connects it over the airwaves to any Access Point (that is, a Linksys in Mode 1 or any other standards compliant access point); the hitch is that it CANNOT also act as an Access Point itself; in other words, it cannot also accept data from a nearby wireless computer. Basically, this mode is great for attaching a LAN in one part of your office to the main LAN which has an Access Point (or a Router/Access Point combo device). (3) Wireless Bridge: this mode is of limited use. It is using 2 of these devices for connecting 2 LANs together when you don't need to connect any other wireless devices to the LAN. It's an older mode; the same result can be achieved by using the 2 devices with one device in mode 1 (as the main Access Point) and the other in mode 2, which would connect the two LANs AND allow you to connect wireless computers to the main device. (4) Wireless Bridge Point to Multipoint: this mode is also of limited use, since you can do the same thing with more functionality with devices in modes 1 and 2, so I won't provide any example. (5) Wireless Repeater: this is the newest mode; it can be thought of as a range extender. Here the device has wireless as both the Input and the Output. It is sort of the complement to mode 2. Say, for example, you already have a mode 1 device attached to your LAN, but at some distance away (30 feet, 100 ft., 300 ft.??) the signal gets too weak to be useful. Instead of buying the now-discontinued WSB24 to boost the power of the mode 1 device, you setup this device in mode 5 near the edge of the signal strenth (not the far edge, or else the bandwidth will still be terrible), and now your wireless computers can properly connect. Note that there is no device out there that can do all modes at once. For example, if you have a main LAN in one part of your house or office, and at the other end of the house/office you have a bunch of computers, printers, etc., some of which are wired together with a hub/switch and some of which are wireless (that is, you'd like to be able to take your wireless laptop around the office as you see fit, without having to be hardwired in the far part of the office), then you'll have to buy 2 of these WAP11 ver2.6 devices to put in the far office: one in Mode 2 and one in Mode 5 (which is still cheaper than stringing cable through the walls!!). I hope the above makes sense because I'm not going to scroll up to edit it. :-)
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Summary: Works great !! Took less than 10 minutes to setup
Review: Advanced setting for 128 bit encryption may take an hour or so. Love Linksys products.
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