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Summary: Great, but...
Review: I wrote an earlier review, but I don't know if that will be posted along with this one, so I will repeat the core information here: before I was able to use the Media Adapter, I discovered that it will only work if the computer serving the music and photos is running Windows XP. The wired ethernet will apparently work with other operating systems, but the wireless will not.I have now upgraded to XP, which I was planning to do anyway, and the Media Adapter is working. Unfortunately, it was a nightmare to get running, and I spent a total of 3 hours on the phone with technical support. I have a Linksys WRT54G router, and the Media Adapter couldn't detect it's signal. After changing the SSID, altering the encryption settings, turning off MAC filtering, and a host of other fixes, the final solution was to change the RTS Threshold to 2304. I know a fair amount about my router, but the RTS Threshold was one setting that I know nothing about and always left alone. If you are getting 00% signal strength, you may want to try this fix. The Media Adapter itself works wonderfully, and I am very pleased with the quality of photo display (3MP pictures don't look at all pixelated). My only complaint here is that the music navigator isn't great: it includes the track number at the beginning of the song name, so the song order is strange (this is probably caused by using the filename rather than Tag information to derive the song name). Overall, great product, but there are costs to being an early adopter.
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Summary: Linksys WMA11B Wireless-B Media adapter
Review: Easy to install, easy to use and works like a charm. You only need to have the computer turned on anywhere within the wireless sytem and with the remote control you can access all photo and music files through the TV. No delays and no loss in picture quality.
This is a great addition to a wireless system.
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Summary: Excellent product!
Review: I agree with a previous reviewer about the installation challenges. Even after I connected the device via ethernet cable, it still could not find it. Calling tech-support didn't help at all - they had no idea what to do. The installation guide was a little weak - not much information and virtually no troubleshooting tips. I was finally able to configure the device by connecting it to my TV first. However, once the installation was complete - I fell in love with it instantly (hence my 4 stars). It is definitely worth its price tag. The connection to my 802-11b network was flawless - i have it connected to my home theater receiver and i finally feel as if my huge collection of mp3's have been freed from their computer prison. This product is highly recommended.
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Summary: Stellar Home Networking Graphic/Audio Device
Review: Very easy setup on Windows XP, aside from having to initially plug into the Ethernet plug on your PC/router to set the unit up. Took less than a minute once I was plugged in. Hooked the device up to my home stereo using the video/audio-l/audio-r cabling and Presto! It was that easy. One of the nice features was being able to manipulate the volume of the music without having to use your stereo remote. Also the shuffle and music/picture selection screens were extremely easy to navigate. On top of that I was able to slideshow through pictures while listening to the music at the same time. One of the first things I noticed when viewing pictures was the excellent quality in comparison to a majority of the scan-converters out there. Extremeley crisp and from what I witnessed, flicker-free. Very vivid! A recommend for anyone out there setting up a Wireless Home Gateway that wants to have those "precious family" photos and music favs at your fingertips at the drop of a hat. Great for holiday reunions for sharing pics with guests. If they ever come out the the "G" version of this puppy I'm first in line. Reception and signal for the unit was exceptional in the fact that my wireless access point was clear on the other side of the house to where my TV/family room is. Had a 70% signal strength from around 80+ feet away and there was no noticable signal drop at all when playing MP3/WMA files.
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Summary: Media Adapter Doesn't Adapt
Review: In trying out the new Linksys Wireless-B Media Adapter, I found what I think is a major flaw in the device. While the Media Adapter supports four popular picture formats: JPG, GIF, TIF and BMP, it does not support JPEG. If you want to see your JPEG photos on television, you have to rename all your photos to JPG. That's a big task when you have hundreds of photos to watch. I didn't originally name them with JPEG extensions; that was a function of Adobe. Every other software and device can recognize both JPG and JPEG; it's a shame such a neat device as the Linksys Media Adapter can't adapt. It does a good job of finding and playing MP3s, but there's no way to easily build playlists. It would be a much better device if it worked more closely with a popular program like MusicMatch, where you could build customized playlists and have them show up in the Media Adapter's menu. It's a good first attempt by Linksys, but [$$$], it needs a little more refinement. UPDATE:(Nov 2003) Linksys has now provided a patch on its website to ensure the Media Adapter can display JPEG images.
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Summary: Great Product if you have tons of MP3's
Review: Just got the Linksys Media Adapter from Amazon today. Had it up and running with my WRT54G wireless router in seconds. The connection quality has been 90%-100% consistently and the media adapter is in a different room than my wireless router. The media adapter can play all of my MP3's off of a wireless pc or a pc that is hardwired to the wireless router. This is a pretty ingenious product. The added infrared remote is a plus! I don't have to burn CD's now to hear my MP3's on my stereo system. Another plus is that I can finally see my digital camera pictures on my 65" widescreen tv!! Definetly a solid product from Linksys!!
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Summary: Just what I was looking for!
Review: I've been waiting for a solution like this to allow me to access my music libraries stored on my computer from my home stereo in a different part of the house. But I didn't want to setup another network, I wanted something that worked directly over an existing 802.11b network. I also thought a TV interface was a good idea for navigating a large library. I considered some other products, but was always turned off by the lack of detailed product information at the manufacturer web sites, or bizarre configuration requirements. I downloaded the user guide from the Linksys web site before making my decision to purchase this, and could see that this was just what I wanted. I was able to point it to my music collection, and it was instantly available for selection via the TV interface. Manually tracking down the directory where MusicMatch stores its playlist files was a minor challenge, but it works great with those playlists as well. And the sound quality is very good. It also does a great job displaying pictures from my digital camera. I'm only giving it 4 stars instead of 5, mainly because the installation was a challenge. The installation software couldn't find the device on the wireless network, so I had to hook it up with an ethernet cable to initially configure the device. I used the setup utility to configure the settings that I wanted for the device, and it kept reporting an error that it could not save the settings. I eventually realized that despite the error, the settings were being saved, and continued. Once I realized that the configuration settings were being saved, it came up on the wireless network just fine (needed to change default of "adhoc" mode to "infrastructure" mode). But then the software that runs on the PC would not install. No errors were reported, just a link on the desktop pointing to a missing file that was nowhere to be found on my hard drive. After several attempts, I was about to call tech support when I decided to reboot first, after which the install then worked properly. It would be nice if the install had an option to scan your hard drives for music and picture files, and then gave you the option to select the directories to include from the ones that were found, rather than requiring manual selections. But the manual selection approach was probably better for me personally. Now that it is installed, I'm quite happy with it. I've only been using it for about 6 hours, but the user interface is good. The "shuffle" mode for a playlist doesn't seem to work quite like I expect (the first song in the playlist is always first even in "shuffle" mode, and there doesn't seem to be a way to reshuffle the playlist once it is loaded), but other than that it is working quite well. I think I'm going to be very happy with it. I'm optimistic that now that the installation challenges are done that it will work its way up to 5 stars from my current 4 rating.
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Summary: Hard to get running, but once setup, works excellent!
Review: I agree that this unit is dificult to setup. It took me (an A+, MCSE, PC technician etc...) about 2 hours to get running. My problem was simply making sure "Infrastructure Mode" was selected, as it was trying to connect directly to the wifi card on my laptop instead of my Wireless Access Point. I already had my 2 XP home machines set up in a workgroup, so there were no problems with the unit accessing the files on any of these PC's. A lot of the problems people seem to be having appear to be related to the settings on the their computers. This is beyond the control of Linksys and reviewers should be cautious not to slam Linksys because of their personal firewall software or home Active Directoy labs don't allow file sharing. Yes the screen is too big, I wish it played movies, and it was a little confusing to setup at first, but it does what it advertises and I enjoy nothing better than putting my entire WMA collection on random and my entire "My Pictures" folder on random and enjoying the show for the evening. I guess with that said, WMA's sound WONDERFUL on this unit, I don't use MP3, so your mileage may vary.
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Summary: Works as Advertised
Review: I had this product up and running in about 15 minutes. I am using the device wirelessly with WEP encryption. I did have to disable my firewall during the setup process. It was annoying to have to approve every action the software was taking during setup. Ran into a problem using it, once I went from using the Ethernet port connection to wireless, because I re-enabled my firewall. Over came this by adding a static IP address to the device and then allowing that address access through the firewall. The device does everything advertised. I even have it pulling music from 3 different PC's on my network. Upgrades I would recommend to Linksys include:
1. Optical output
2. Enhanced scrolling through folders
3. Display of album art
4. Ability to play video
5. Component video output
6. Upgrade to 802.11g
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Summary: i really like linksys, but:
Review: i did not expect i would be writting this review for this product. my initial experience was very good and the product performed as advertised. Unfortunately some where along the line the software suffered the same fate as other customers. that is the client software crashes and refuses to run under xp pro. the online tech support is useless and the fact pages clearly are not addressing this problem. it makes the product useless and a nice paper weight. for background i have tried re-installing the software and .net many times to see if i could fix the problem (by the way the uninstaller also crashes so this is a manual process) with no success. i really like linksys products as they are doing some neat stuff but it is clear they are having some real technical support issues. make sure you can get a refund if you buy this product!
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