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Summary: Great product!
Review: Worked right out of the box. Very simple to use. The Install Wizard makes installation a snap.It installed in just a few minutes. I use this with the WUSB11 adapter. Both WAP11 and WUSB11 work really well. Would readily recommend it.
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Summary: it changed my life
Review: honestly. i never have to even think about being connected in the house anymore. it's a wired household with no wires!the range, as other reviewers have been saying, is quite respectable. we once tested a block down the street. i can take my laptop into the garden. it's freedom. it's the way we were meant to compute.
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Summary: Good Buy
Review: Please make sure you enable 128 bit encryption (WEP) for security. Wireless networks are easier to break into without WEP enabled. For home or business, please have some level of authentication to access your critical files and folders. People are known to scan neighborhoods and business centers for unprotected wireless networks.
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Summary: Linksys works
Review: I already had a LinkSys 4-port router on my 3Com cable modem (working flawlessly for nearly two years), but wanted wireless access in the rest of the 3000 sqft house. Simply connected the AP to one of the ports on the router that is located in the study of our split level house, and it worked right out of the box. I did buy an Orinoco card (silver; gold is same except for higher encryption) rather than a LinkSys card for better distance reception. The system works everywhere in the house and on the porch. Swapping the single card between laptops gives no problems. LinkSys seems to have gotten it right with easy set up and functionality. Note that the router/AP combination is not handy if you want to place the AP at a high level in the house for optimal reception, but also want to have easy access to the router (occasional resets).
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Summary: Works very well - delighted...
Review: I bought the WAP11 (v 2.2) plus a wireless Linksys PC card NIC and a PCI NIC: all for home use. The WAP setup is pretty straightforward with an excellent Web interface. I set it up with 128 bit WEP encryption and MAC address filtering to provide at least some basic security. I found the signal strength and range to be better than the SMC WAP I had been testing and certainly preferred the Linksys web interface to the setup utility that came with the SMC. My only cricicism of the Linksys unit is its bulk. Although possibly outside the scope of this review, it may be worth mentioning that I'm very happy with the Linksys WMP11 PCI Wireless NIC that I bought as well. It has an actual real antenna that sticks out of the back of the PC and which can be adjusted to get the optimum signal strength. The only problem I had was with the Windows XP wireless networking setup utility doing battle with the utility provided with the one that shipped with the card. I suppose I could have let the Windows-provided utility handle the card but, in the end, I unchecked the box that allowed it to manage the card. This let me use the Linksys utility to handle the setup and things were smooth from then on. Signal strength is excellent - much better than from the SMC PCI card I'd been using earlier. Whether this was a function of having the antenna, rather than SMC's back plastic PC-card type protrusion, I don't know. One more thing, Linksys makes easy work of updating drivers, utilities and firmware from its very well-organized web site. It's worth availing yourself of these updates.
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Summary: WAP-11 Ver. 2.2 and WPC-11 Ver. 3 have a hardware conflict
Review: WAP-11 Ver. 2.2 and WPC-11 Ver. 3 have a hardware conflict per Linksys Tech Support which cause intermittent conflict causing other computers to disconnect from the internet.If you have these versions ask Linksys for an RMA # for return
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Summary: Problems with Windows XP
Review: I've had lot of great success with Linksys products in the past. Unfortunately their wonderful track record has stopped with this product. Linksys claims that although the drivers have not been certified with Microsoft they will work on XP. My experience has been that the product WILL NOT work with XP.
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Summary: Beware - Poor Performance
Review: I bought two of these units to bridge an existing Ethernet because of their attractive price and flexibility. However, I could not get the units to communicate faster than 500 kbit/sec in either bridging mode or AP mode. This is with both units 3 feet apart in the same room, with all other wireless devices powered off. This is far below their rating of 11 mbit/sec and much worse than the 4 mbit/sec I get in a similar setup with my Orinoco gear. After an unfruitful 1 hour session with Linksys tech support ended with them blaming the wretched performance on "microwave oven or air traffic control tower interference" I returned the units.
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Summary: Good technology but bad software
Review: The Linksys WAP11 appears to be built on solid technology, however the software it comes with leaves much to be desired. The configurations don't make sense, and the documentation doesn't make sense, even to a seasoned computer and network engineer such as myself. The security settings are done half-hazardly, and it is very hard to get this WAP to work using its maximum security settings, even with Linksys' own pc cards! Linksys tech support seems to be vaguely aware of the fact that the configuration software comes broken, and they have very few answers. Bottom line, I'd say this would be ok for a home, barely workable in a small office (be prepared to tinker with the broken configuration software for hours), DEFINATELY not ready for enterprise usage.
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Summary: I love version 1.x. I do not like version 2.x
Review: I love version 1.x which is ATMEL AT76C510 and allows a lot of hacking: you can use it in 4 different modes (AP,AP client,bridge, point-to-multipoint bridge) which makes it a great for cheap local networks. 2 such units allows easy setup of a wireless bridge connecting two wired networks. For sull power use ATMEL SNMP configuration tools. You can even change the output power!! For longer connection I suggest replacing the connectors as my friend found these RP-TNC connectors very poor. Replacing them by N/SMA connector boost the range.
I do not like the version 2.x. Out of two units I got one broke down shortly after the 30 return period was over. Also since they do not have USB (v1.x does) the configuration was a mcuh bigger problem - confiuration software looks buggy - sometimes it can find the AP, sometimes it can not.
My suggestion - unless you like to be a guinea pig for testing - go for version 1.x which rocks and with new firmware is rock solid. Version 2.x in my opinion stinks and requires more work from Linksys. It took me over 4 hours to get it working while v1.x takes me less than 10 minutes (including upgrade of firmware on two units).
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