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Summary: A fine product
Review: I decided to get this and keep my existing cable modem router instead of buying the combo router/wireless device from Linksys. The WAP11 had better distance ratings on the Linksys web site. I'm happy with it. I get 11 Mbps connections anywhere in my house.
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Summary: Intermittent connectivity problems with WIFI
Review: I've endured intermittent WIFI connectivity problems with the Linksys WAP11 access point. The UI provided for tweaking settings is pretty cool, but it could use some refinements. I recommend checking out comments from other reviewers before buying this specific model.
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Summary: Wireless really does deliver!
Review: We were about to get cable internet access and had more than one computer we wished to share that internet with. How did we solve that problem? We bought a Linksys wireless Access Point router and wireless USB receivers for all our computers. Setting up the Access Point was not easy. (If you have Windows XP, it will be very, very easy. We didn't.) After a call to their tech line we were in business. I also had trouble installing one of the USB connectors to one of my Windows ME computers. After installing XP on that computer, it connected right away. Connection is near always 100%, sometimes dipping into 97%. The router is in the middle of the house, and it reaches all computers in the basement and the second floor with perfect connection. Cable speeds are as fast as when the computer was hard wired to the modem. I really do recommend this product to anyone setting up a home network. We're all sharing the internet, printers, and files on our new Linksys wireless network.
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Summary: Decent unit, Poor firmware, did Linksys BETA test this?????
Review: I had the benefit of comparing a Linksys WAP11 (ver 2.2 purchased 12/10/02) directly with a Belkin F5D6130 at a distance of 300 feet between homes. The receiving unit was a Netgear USB MA101 Wireless unit to make the test unbiased toward one manufacturer and the access points were put in exactly the same spot for each test. The test was conducted by sending 1024 bit packets at maximum data rate with the old fashion DOS program 'ping'. I set the ping address so that it would ping test data all the way through the wireless access point and on to the DSL router. This is to accurately see how fast data from a wired network (ie the router) can be transfered through the wired network port built-in to the access point, across the wireless access point and then to my USB wireless adapter on my laptop. The resulting victor was the Belkin which returned packets the solidly and fast at 11ms (0.011 seconds). The Linksys had a return rate around 11 to 13 with fluctuations up to 20 and 40ms. This is not all that bad except for one major problem. Every 60 seconds the Linksys access point paused for around 3200ms (3.2seconds)! I don't know if a newer firware version would fix this or what in the world the access point is doing for 3 seconds out of every minute but it sure isn't transmitting my data. If you would like to conduct your own data return test on your wireless network, I would suggest positioning your access point and wireless adapter as far apart as possible while still maintaining a link and then check the data rate by typing
'ping -t -l 1024 192.168.0.1' Please note that the IP address (191.168.0.1) should be replaced with your own IP address of your DSL or cable modem router and it should be typed in on your laptop or remote computer with the wireless adapter using a windows DOS 'Command Prompt'. Hope this helps. -Jerome
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Summary: Great, once I got it working
Review: I purchased the WAP11 along with a card for my laptop and a Linksys ethernet bridge. Installing the access point was simple. You basically just connect the access point on your wired network and then use the included setup CD to configure the access point. Within a couple of minutes of pulling it out of the box, it was up and running. I was thrilled. Unfortunately, things went downhill from there. I started to have problems with my wireless network going down. The access point would appear to be up and running (I could connect to its internal webserver), but neither of my clients could connect. This was usually solved by restarting the access point, or the clients (or both). Doing this on a regular basis wasn't acceptable so I tried a firmware update (which, btw, was very easy to install). After the firmware update, the situation got worse. The wireless network was completely non-functional. To solve the problem I started to dig in to the configuration of the access point. I had tweaked a couple of settings to make it more secure (btw, its default settings are very insecure), so I tried changing some of these options. After some trial and error I managed to get everything running again (by reenabling SSID broadcast, in case you were wondering). Since then the network has been rock solid. In the end I am happy with the product. It is easy to setup and configure, and has been working fine since the initial headache.
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Summary: PURE [STUFF]
Review: This thing kinda worked for the first year that I owned it but I always had to reset it because it would die unexpectedly. I tried the firmware update but the software always died at 34%. I called their tech support and they told me that I shouldn't update the firmware and that it may damage the hardware. No kidding... then the guy tried to make me feel bad that the hardware was failing... Linksys tech support is a bunch of morons... don't buy this product.
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Summary: buggy firmware, lousy support
Review: wap11 v2.2 was delivered with 1.01f firmware, newer than the "latest official firmware" on linksys site (1.01c). wanted to turn off broadcast ssid for higher security and wap11 v2.2 could not talk at all to linksys wet11 at all. called linksys and after waiting more than 30 minutes to talk to someone, i'm not convinced the tech support guy had ever seen these products or knew what broadcast ssid was. anyway, he told me that "linksys products required broadcast ssid to be on". yeah, right. poking around on the internet revealed later firmware, 1.01j, on a linksys site in singapore, which worked perfectly on the first try with wep on and broadcast ssid off. so it is working now but i am not impressed with linksys' firmware or tech "support".
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Summary: Not as strong as I thought it would be...
Review: I have the base unit in the addition to our house. The signal has to pass through an existing brick wall to reach any other area of the house. If it has to pass though any other wall (like a bedroom only 40 feet away), I lose the signal. I need to reconsider placement of the base I guess.
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Summary: Works very well, setup simple and cheap for what you get.
Review: I have 3 of them, 2 are used as a wireless bridge and one I use as an access point with external antenna. Very happy, good range, running 24/7 for over 3 months without a single reset.
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Summary: power boost trick doesn't work with new version (WAP11 v2.2)
Review: An earlier review below talks about boosting the output power by playing with an undocumented setting. This only works for the old model. The new one, WAP11 v2.2, is completely different; there is no known way to make it output more power. --Pat / zippy at cs.brandeis.edu
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