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Summary: WOW! The postlady rang once!
Review: Thirty minutes ago, the door bell rang, it was a postlady delivering the last component, Netgear ME 102 802.11b WAP, for my wireless networking setup.
After 10 minutes of configuring, I moved from room to room, front yard to back, sent and received emails to friends and myself, checked afterhour stock prices at yahoo.com, now writing this review on amazon.com from my laptop with no wire attached!
My wireless setup includes Netgear ME 102 WAP, Netgear Gateway Router RT314, Linksys WPC11 PCMCIA, IBM laptop running Windows ME. The desktop is still wired to the Router to the cable modem. I think my desktop will be very lonely from now on.
I must say "Thanks a bunch!" to those unknown engineers at Netgear and Linksys, and to the great prices from amazon.com
However, I don't recommend one thing:
Typing email in the backyard, the bright sun made it so hard to see what's on the laptop LCD screen.
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Summary: Netgear Equals Superb Service
Review: This holiday season I was a good santa and purchased numerous wireless networking products for my various family members. Sure it was partially a selfish act as I wanted to be able to easily connect when I went to visit, but for the most part it was just an act of giving. I purchased mainly G products and they varied from routers to USB adapters to PC Card adapters. I did also purchase a couple of B products for those in the family that already had some wireless networking products (yes, I know they are backwards compatible but I didn't want to take any chances).
Only two members of the family had installation problems (considering my family is very non-technical I was quite impressed) and those two people both had yet to upgrade to Windows XP SP2. The rest of the family members were up and running within minutes.
As for the couple of family members that did have problems, well they called me first (of course) and I told them to just run back through the installation procedure again. This solved the problem for Uncle Dennis but Grandma Joyce still couldn't get it to work properly. I reluctantly told her to call Netgear's technical support (hey the reviews on Amazon haven't been too pretty for their tech support). I however was quite pleased when an hour later I got an email from Grandma Joyce thanking me for the great gift. I called her back and she told me that after fiddling with the settings with the Netgear people she was up and running within 30 minutes.
Overall, I consider this the ultimate test of product quality and support and I would give Netgear two thumbs up.
I hope this review was helpful to you in putting your mind at ease regarding ease of setup and trust of technical support if needed.
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Summary: Where is the documentation?
Review: This is a good product and pretty much works right out of the box. If you have a simple network configuration you can have this running in minutes. However, if your network swerves to the complicated side of the road and your not an expert; get one. There is no help in the box.
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Summary: Works anywhere and is portable
Review: This is the best of both worlds since I can use it on my PC or my laptop. It is not as convenient as my pcmcia card, but it is more useful since I can use it with my PC's as well. Excellent range and no interference experienced.
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Summary: For the techie
Review: This is very cool for the fact that it's wireless. I prefer Intel products, but Intel wireless 802.11b products are hard to come by. This thing works beautifully, but it's not documented well. It comes with ocnfiguration software which I had to figure out with trial and error. Once I got it working I was pleased with the performance and the value.
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Summary: The only way to go for the $$$
Review: This unit performs extremely well! You must download the firmware upgrade 1.4h, which will fix security issues (others being able to connect via SNMP unauthenticated) and adds 128 encryption. The firmware upgrade also includes new management utilities, the ones on the CD wont work correctly. My Panasonic 2.4 GHz phone caused the card (MA401) to loose connection, so I changed the AP to run on channel 11 instead of 1 and that fixed the problem - 0 interference. I get 100% link quality and 80% signal strength 40 feet away and through walls. It maintains 11 Mbit over 100 feet away inside! The downside is for the price Dlink offers more for the money by including router/print server in the unit. But I didn't need a router, I needed reliable and fast wireless access. Netgear support is awful, don't expect them to help you if you run into troubles. My configuration: Cisco Router for DSL, Linksys 4 port Router/Hub, ME102 AP, ME401 card. The Linksys router acts like DHCP server, so I set the AP to run DHCP. I also use VPN with no issues under this configuration.
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Summary: An excellent wireless networking product
Review: We added the ME102 Wireless Access Point to our existing 6 station hardwired home-office network and have been totally happy with it ever since. Living in a 4 floor home with offices, we found some places we couldn't reach efficiently with cable. Because we started out originally with Netgear we decided to stay with them just in case there might be compatibility issues (we've haven't really ever found any though). We connected the access point to a hard wire point or our network at a central point on our second floor with absolutely no problems. The accompanying connectors and software made set-up easy. We were up and going in a few minutes. Signal strength has been great in all the locations we use. Currently we have 2 laptops and a desktop added to the network on the wireless system on various floors and through walls as well. We are having no problems at all. One one older Netgear Switch (FS 108) we had some heat problems that others have noticed and written about as well. This isn't a problem with the wireless access point. Basically I love the product-- In fact I've never gone wrong with Netgear.
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Summary: Works like a charm
Review: What more can I say? I plugged it in according to the manual, set it up, and I was on the air. My setup is: DSL
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HUB---
\-Main home Computer \-Access Point \-Laptop connection
Manual is almost non-existent but useable. I was able to turn on security and get it to work - I used WEP64 with a set key on both ends (laptop with 802.11 card and Access Point). Great value for the money, works like a charm.
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