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Summary: Up in 20 Minutes
Review: I am familiar with the Linksys interface so when I received this product I was able to have it up and running in 20 minutes. The installation of the drivers for the NICs in my laptops was a breeze. I was surfing in my family room in 25 minutes watching a streaming video at 150Kbps for an hour straight with no glitches. By the way, I have a DSL line for internet access that uses PPOE. By running the PPOE client on my router, my PC has become much more stable.
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Summary: Wi-Fi the easy way
Review: I used this to share my cable modem with a Mac and 2 PC laptops. The Mac is connected through the switch ports and the laptops through the wireless connection. Configuration is simple and is done through a web browser so there's no problem doing it through a mac, unix ou windows. It's all the same.
I first hooked up the Mac and I was online instantly after booting every thing up. No configuration needed to start surfing using the switch ports.
For the wireless cards on the laptops I bought 2 PCMCIA Cisco aironet cards. After installing these I just had to enter a ID for my network and never thought about anything anymore. Everything was online and networked. Easy!
Some days later I tried encription and although the manual for the Linksys only said 64bit the web configuration page had a 128bit option. I tried it and configured the Cisco cards as well and no problems.
I think it's the first time in a long time that I haven't had such an easy experience hooking up something. I really can't understand why so many sites say WiFi is great but difficult to install. Didn't happen with me.
I take one star out because of range. I'm using this in Europe and buildings here are a bit different (more concrete) and range is somewhat spotty from floor to floor. I have about 20meters range (through floors and walls) in my house.
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Summary: Great product ... but save the box
Review: The best value wireless network hub/router for SOHO. Most buyers will have little problem getting it set up and working. A few buyers will have significant software conflicts or radio frequency reception problems and may want to return the unit.A few suggestions: 1) This is not only a wireless router but also a four port hub. All desktops that can be easily wired to the hub should use a cable instead of a wireless connection (less expensive and faster). If you need more than four wired connections you can easily "uplink" this unit to an inexpensive 8 - 24 port linksys hub. 2) Consider purchasing the USB wireless network adapter for desktop computers. The USB unit can be repositioned for best reception. 3) Download the latest software/firmware from linksys.com before you begin installation. The CD that comes with the product will almost certainly be outdated. 4) If you do not currently have a home network, remember that this device not only provides internet sharing but also full network access. (Your wireless laptop in your bedroom can print on the printer in your home office and access files on your child's PC). You probably will want to understand a little about windows security before turning on file and print sharing on individual PCs. 5) "Out of the box" this product has wireless encryption turned off. This default allows anyone within range of the unit to access your internet connection and possibly your home network. While this setup is the easiest way to initially set up the unit, most people will want to turn on 64 bit encryption (You provide a key to each remote connection). 128 bit encryption is now also available but slows down connection speed. This device has many of features and great functionality for the price. Relatively inexperienced computers users will probably get it working without too much pain, while more technical users will find enough tweaks to keep them happy.
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Summary: check with your isp first
Review: Not compatible with optimum online from cablevision. Extensive conversations with Linksys tech support proved to be utterly fruitless.
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Summary: Nice Router for the Money
Review: After looking at D-Link, Netgear, Belkin, Proxim, etc. and all the online reviews I could find, I decided to purchase the Linksys in Dec. I did not have a warm feeling in making the purchase but with the holiday rebate and lower pricing the price point was hard to beat. Also alot of the other products did not have specifies on their web pages about their products. I needed VPN IPSec passthrough, an uplink port, NAT and port filtering and 128bit WEP for the WAP. I have an iMAC (with a bad enet port) and Airport card and a laptop PC connected to my network which consist of a Netopia IDSL router/hub and the Linksys. The Netopia is supplying my network filtering, NAT and DHCP. The Linksys for now I am only using the WAP function. I have the two routers connected via switch/hub(via uplink port). The Netopia is 192.168.1.1 and the Linksys is 192.168.1.2. Right after receiving the unit I upgraded it to firmware 1.39.2 and it worked fine except I could only get 40bit WEP to work. In approx 2 months I have not had any issues with the unit. My iMAC is only 4 feet from the Linksys so there is not a distance issue to contend with. Last week Linksys posted 1.40.3 firmware release. I loaded the software and immediately loss my wireless connection. Tried reloading the firmware and double checked my configuration but still would not work. I called Tech Suppport and was put on hold. While on hold i checked MACNN.com forum and saw that others had the same problem and by toggling some wirless setup parameters the connection would come back. I was able to get this to work and when tech support picked up the line after 1 hr 45 minutes, I told the guy what happened. He suggested that I go back to an earlier release. That was my first experience with tech support, not very impressed. Linksys has pulled the 1.40.3 release and has gone back to 1.39.2 on their web site. I seem to be working ok at the moment, so have not backed out of the upgrade, and now I have 128bit WEP working to my iMAC. So, the unit works fine, but make sure to not overwrite old firmware loads until you have the new one working properly and tested.
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Summary: Firmware Upgrade is buggy and Tech Support is non-existent
Review: I've been using this product for about 6 months and was relatively happy until I upgrade my firmware per recommendation on the Linksys web site. Now I can not enable a static IP address as the web interface has a bug that won't let you submit your changes. All other menus work fine, but this is the one I really need. I called customer service and was told the wait would be 32 minutes. After 150 minutes I was still on hold! This is completely unacceptable and the issue is still unresolved making this a 300 paper weight.
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Summary: poor range, poor customer support, , difficult config
Review: After five hours of trying with the assistance of a tech friend who makes his living tech consulting, we did not have a reliable network where all three machines recognized each other simultaneously - definitely not plug and play. Worse, the range through a simple frame wall at a 15 foot distance dropped to fair on the laptop. Customer service was slow to pick up, and tried to send us to a 3rd party web site for advice. Sent it back (sorry, Amazon).
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Summary: Work with your cable ISP
Review: After reading many of the setup nightmares, I decided to prolong setting up the wireless network for a week and enjoy the speed of my new cable modem for a week (i.e running a patch cable directly into the PC's network card. Before I got setup with cable, my cable ISP needed to know the MAC address of my modem. Little did I know at that time, but when they activate your cable account, the MAC address of the cable modem detects the MAC address of the next unit downstream (i.e. my network card). We were up and running in no time! A week later a decided to install and configure the wireless portion (router and USB adapter). Following the guidelines in the manual and in these reviews I: 1. Downloaded the latest drivers and firmware for the respective units. 2. Loaded the software. 3. Hooked up the hardware. 4. Updated the drivers and firmware 5. Connected to 192.168.1.1 and verified Setup and DHCP settings but could not connect to the Internet...Frustration set in. 6. I called Linksys. Average waiting time stated was 20 minutes. I waited 1 hour before getting a tech support rep. I explained the conversion from network card over to the USB adapter and router. We checked a few settings and found that I was connecting to the router but not the cable modem. This is what I already knew BEFORE I called them. Linksys Tech Support had definitly left a bad taste in my mouth. 7. I called my ISP and explained the conversion I was doing. They cleared the cache on their end that originally was using the MAC address of my network card and then reconfigured their system to find the MAC address of my cable modem again which in turn found the MAC address of the ROUTER. 8. Lastly, I reset the router back to it's default settings (button in the back of the router), rebooted my machine, and was wirelessly LIVE! What a relief. Hope new Users of these products find this information helpful.
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Summary: Updated Firmware Offers Improved Range
Review: I wrote an earlier review stating that I was not pleased with the wireless range of this router. Since that time, I updated the firmware. It was easy to do, and offered much improvement. I now maintain an 11mbs connection on a second floor over 50 feet from the router. It's great! I experience very little degredation of speed with my system. Installation can be a little tricky, but you don't have to be a computer science major to get it working. I am now able to use my notebook anywhere in my house with access to network printers and files on my office desktop machine. If you want to be free from wires, this is the router for you.
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Summary: Linksys Wireless cable/dsl router
Review: I ordered this item on 2/6/02, then noticed that it wouldn't be shipped till 2/13/02, and estimated arrival at my residence on 2/20/02. This I feel is very unacceptable, so I was forced to cancel this order and purchase this item locally at a higher price than I wanted to pay. This is unacceptable I feel.
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