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Summary: Excelent Product
Review: I bought WRT-54G when I purchased my laptop (Hp ze4560). Setup would have been easy if I had read the directions properly and powered up the equipment in the correct order, but a quick call over to India and problem solved. The reception That I recieve Is very good, I can go any where in my house and get >36mbs/sec connection, even up stairs in the back room. I did flash the router with the updated software that Linksys has out, which went very smooth, and have had no problems out of this product what so ever. I do have MAC address filtering enabled but the WEP is not, and have not tried to enable it so I cannot attest to it's ease of setup. I would highly reccomend this product to anyone looking to add wireless capability to their high speed conn. The only complaint I do have is that the documentation is a little on the thin side, but none the less the product it self makes up for it.
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Summary: Excellent features & performance, with some problems
Review: Installation is easy and performance is solid. There are some nice features, such as the ability to use this router as an access point that can bridge systems operating under the older 802.11b standard (11 mbps), as well as the blazingly fast 802.11g standard. It also comes with the usual features: DHCP server, NAT, and firewall. I also like the fact that the wired ports are based on switching instead of shared as a hub. However, there is one major aspect of this router that you need to consider before purchasing - there is a firmware flaw (as of firmware version 2.02.7) that exposes the remote administration feature to hackers who will attempt to exploit ports 80 and 443. Worse, turning off the remote administration feature does not close the vulnerability of ports 80 and 443. This vulnerability was reported widely by Jason Meserve in the 6/3/04 NW Virus and Bug Patch Alert, and a workaround was provided by Alan W. Rateliff in a 4/31/04 port to the Security Focus bugtrack list. The workaround is to set the port forwarding to send ports 80 and 443 to non-existent hosts. Rateliff further noted that forwarding the ports to any hosts (including listening ones if you are actually running servers) will override the default behavior. He also recommended immediately changing the default admin and password before connecting this router on a live network. There is another issue with Linksys in general, and that is the quality of their technical support, which I consider to be poor-to-mediocre, depending on how lucky you are when dealing with them. Overall, this router has a lot of excellent features and performs very well. The downside is the security issue cited above and my opinion that they have less than great technical support. Therefore, if you are a highly technical user and can perform the workaround described above, and can solve most common problems without needing Linksys' tech support you'll probably like it. However, if you are a non- or quasi-technical user who wants something that works out of the box and does not expose your network to security problems, you may want to look elsewhere.
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Summary: This one is really great surprised for me
Review: I never think of installtion of Linksys is this easy. I used Microsoft wireless router before. Because I think I can't stant too many home networking setup. But previous one broken so I have to seek a new replacement. I check out PC magazine for product advice. So I narrow down to two product: one is this model another one is MN-700 from Microsoft. I didnt know which one is better so I walked into bestbuy to see these two. But I wasn't lucky to see them both. They are hot product. MN-700 sold out. Linksys has router but no USB adapter. I need router right away and can't wait for no service at all. So I asked sales for advice to pick USB adapter from Netgear whom said these two compatable. I thought it good to try. So I brought back with Linksys router and Netgear USB adapter. What amazing day. First, I opened box from Linksys and read thru. the instruction. Following the step 1,2,3... everything just plug-in and play. After install software from CD then plug in router and then let installation wizard guide me through the installation process. This is first time in my life without any error and trying. This product rock and no problem at all. I install this router with laptop at window 2000. And use cable modem service. Next I have to work on my remote site on desktop PC. Once again, I opened box from netgear and no problem again to install on my PC with window XP pro. Netgear did pick up frequency from Linksys which my old one,MN-51 from microsoft couldn't. So now my home networing blazing thru the whole house. I have another laptop whith Wi-Fi also pick up the frequency from Linksys. All I can say is this product's performance way over my expect before.
1. Very easy to install. As long as I follow the instruction. Just like step 1,2,3.
2. Great product for non-experience person like me. It seek setting info. for me from PC. The reason I say this is because my laptop need to connect back to office too. Needed to go through security company firewall... If it couldn't catch the setting for me, I will have problem to find those setting.
3. It got great compatable function.
4.It has great frendly interface for configuration later.
Hope these comments help.
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Summary: Excellent quality with some really cool features!
Review: Based on features and the price I decided to buy the LinkSys WRT54G AP/Broadband device. After I've ordered it, I surfed through the review list on Amazon and found a nasty surprise. There were a lot of negative comments about the device. However, I've also found about an equal number of positive comments about it. This left me wondering, but only for a short while. My WRT54G was delivered the next day and as soon as the delivery person left, I jumped into the package like a kid. As far as I can see it after two days of use, the device has these cons:
- Limit on number of port-forwarding rules for the WAN interface
- Darn ugly, and sometimes slow configuration system
And these pros:
- Simple and fast to install. I was up and running within 10 minutes, and had configured all the additional options in less than an hour.
- Enough details in the documentation to lead my existing knowledge of networks (I work as a software engineer) through the configuration
I've had two issues that were my snafus and not a fault of the device. First of all, it took me a long (relatively) time to configure my MAC address access list due to the fact that I mistyped my WiFi card's MAC address - this led to having to reset the router to the factory settings once. I also had problems geting the 128 bit WEP encryption running due to the fact that I never worked with it before. What really surprised me was a nice interface to handle DynDNS.org accounts, so you don't have to run a separate program to do it for you. I upgraded to the newest version of the firmware, although I didn't have any problems with the existing one which was seriousely out of date. I suggest to upgrade your device as soon as possible after buying it, though. All in all, this is a solid product which is just perfect for the SOHO environments. I would honestly reccomend it to anyone.
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Summary: Easy Installation
Review: Just what hardware should be. Quick and easy to istall, reliable, and powerful. Tried several different alternatives and the slight savings were not worth the hassle.
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Summary: Very bad experience
Review: My sincere advice is please do not buy this product, it not working at all for windows xp, customer service is poor, very incompetent people, I ended up returning this one and bought DLink which works very great.
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Summary: broken after a year
Review: I bought this product just a year ago. Now it is broken. The worst thing is that the warranty has just expired. What an inferior product!
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Summary: Super fast setup, high power range
Review: I have a Compaq laptop with a built in 802.11g wireless access. I have had SMC DSL/Cable gateway and SMC wireless access point 802.11b, All I did is unplugged both SMC router and access point and plugged in the Linksys WRT54G instead, The PCs connected using RJ-45 worked immediately, the laptop, I had to put the LINKSYS SSID instead of the SMC and everything works in less than 5 minutes, later on I went in and changed the ADMIN password and added more wireless security features, I tried to do the same thing with U.S Robotics Router, I gave up after few hours and took it back. As of the range I get 54mps even though my Linksys is in my basement, and my laptop on the main floor. Highly recommend.
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Summary: Bad User Interface
Review: The router was easy to set up and use, but I quickly found that the interface provided too few options. One key feature missing from this router is port triggering, making it impossible to play certain games online. I ended up selling it to someone else and getting a D-Link.
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Summary: Works Great
Review: I had problems at first but then I upgraded my firmware. No problems after that! Works great with two USB-G and one PCI-G recievers!
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