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Summary: Simple and Effective
Review: My broadband connection is in the basement. My wife's computer is on the second floor.Now, I could either buy a wireless Wi-Fi router, or tear up a bunch of walls and install a couple hundred feet (or more) of network cables. The only question I had was, would this LynkSys router be powerful enough to travel up two storeys and through six walls. The answer, surpringly, was yes, it is plenty poweful. So not only are my wife and I sharing a fast internet connection, complete with firewall protection, but it took me only twenty minutes to get everything set up. And I'm no computer specialist. If you're looking for wireless connectivity for your second computer, your laptop, or your home network, I can't recommend this product highly enough.
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Summary: Excellent product !!
Review: I've tried other brands of wireless router with mixed results.
Could not get full speed in my kitchen and on the balcony.
Usually 1-5Mbps, low signal. Didn't expect the Linksys BEFW11S4 to be much better, but I wrong. The Linksys BEFW11S4 v2 was amazing. I got full speed (11Mbps) all over my apartment, on the balcony, even outside the house.
The ultimate test was to take my laptop down the street to a friend of mine (150 meters away). My laptop reported 11Mbps and full signal strength....Wow!
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Summary: Quick and easy install and works like a charm
Review: Fantastic product. Installed in minutes and extremely strong signal.
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Summary: Excellent Product
Review: I had a very easy install. I downloaded the useres guide and studied it for about an hour before I bought the product. The instructions which come with the router are very basic, all the advanced functionality stuff comes on a CD. I highly rcommend reading the users guide first.
I have two desktops(one ME one 2000) in one room and then a laptop for the wireless(windows xp).
It took 10 minutes to hook up router to modem and router to PC's ethernet cards.
It took 2 minutes to set-up PC's and 5 minutes to input router settings.
Bam!! Both PC's working on Cable Internet after reboot!
The laptop was even easier. Install CD, Install Linksys wireless card. Sit and watch it automatically set-up(20 seconds). Re-boot,
Bam! Highspeed cable internet less then 2 minutes.
Download speeds off NVIDIA's site for free USA ARMY GAME download: 23 Meg file I got the following download speeds:
PC1 WIndows ME -- 180kBs
PC2 Windows 98 -- 160-180kBs
Laptop Windows XP -- 110 kBS anywhere in the house (thru 3-6 walls single story)
Excellent buy - easy install. Hope it lasts a long time.
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Summary: Wonderful!!!!
Review: The Linksys router and wireless card works like a charm. I had things set up in about 20 mins. My wife can access her work computer via her VPN connection and the only configuration I had to do was the log-in for our DSL modem! Later that night, I spent about another 10 mins. to share our printer (never possible on the Panasonic unit as far as I could tell!) and was printing out the rebate info from our laptop in the living room. I would highly recommend this product.
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Summary: Works for me
Review: I'm not a "techie" - yet, I was surfing wirelessly at home on my computer in less than 5 minutes after opening the box! Then, I followed their step by step instructions on how to set up the highest level of security. I didn't know that anything computer related could be so easy to use. I called tech support just to walk through installation. Tech support is easy to reach, although the guy I spoke with had problems coming down to my level of little tech expertise. The tech support website is exceptional - they use step by step pictures. I use Windows XP. I was totally covered by the directions provided.
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Summary: Giving up on Linksys
Review: Well, I used to be a fan of Linksys. But it seems that more of their products are defective than good these days. I recommended linksys to a friend and he purchased one of their products. After hours on the phone with tech support, they declared it defective. He returned it and got another, same thing, defective. He returned that one and got a different brand which he got running in 5 minutes of setup. I was really surprised to hear of this. Then my router stopped working. I call tech support and after 2.5 hours, they declared it defective. They sent a new one which took 5 times longer than they promised, hence my entire network was inoperative for a week and a half. I called them everyday to check the shipping status, and everyday they claimed it shipped that day. It didn't. Very aggravating. The new one finally arrived and guess what? Also defective. I'm now waiting on the third which again, day after day, has not shipped out as promised. To make things more interesting, before I found out that the second replacement was faulty I ordered this product and Linksys's wireless print server from amazon for our other office. It just arrived and I have tried to get it running but the IP address is not the default and the reset won't change it back as it's supposed to. I can't connect to the internet (and I know what I'm doing). In addition, the unit gets so hot I can hardly touch it. I've been on hold for tech support for 40 minutes and I'm about to hang up. I intend to send all of the new linksys components I just purchased back and get a different brand. If I could trade in my old stuff, I would. When they work they are very good, but it seems to me that quality control doesn't exist and you have less than a 50% chance of getting a working product.
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Summary: I forget I even have it!!!
Review: I've had this since November 2001 and after I set it up I almost forget that I have it! Setting up was easy as plugging the cables. Very little configuration to do. Range is reasonable and covers almost my entire 3-story house. I enabled wep encryption and am port forwarding so I can have some servers running on my network acessible from the outside. I'm not sure how strong this firewall feature is but it's an added security.
I've never had problems with it and even when the power in my house goes out and comes back up the linksys just restarts itself as it was before.
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Summary: The Best value for an all in one wireless router !! A+++
Review: I was amazed with this product (actually I bought the ver 2.0). as soon as I plugged everything and turned on my laptop that has a lucent wireless card, like by magic everything was working without any setup or changes from my side. Really impressed ++++ I have a cable modem from time Warner (RCA Modem) and a laptop with a Lucent wireless pc card.
Good product 02 thumbs-up...
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Summary: even a dummie like me, can set it up.
Review: Ok, just got it yesterday and hooked it up in under 10 minutes. Now, read the instructions, but really just put the cd-rom in your drive and follow the prompts. Do not forget to wear a white shirt and tie, and ill fitting chinos, so you look like the geek from your office. Now the important stuff. The cards for the other computers take a little longer, but don't give up. Now my house has 3 desktops (2pcs and an Apple)., plus my Jornada 720 clogging up the internet. HANG TEN!! and have a great summer
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