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Summary: Wonderful
Review: After issues with installing the firmware and latest drivers on the Lynksys WAP11 Access Point, this USB Adapter worked flawlessly. I can access my home-based LAN as well as the Internet from anywhere on my property with great speed.Tip. Make sure you are running Windows XP Professional on the machine hosting the Access Point and that you download the latest drivers from Lynksys. XP Pro's simple wizard based ICS (Internet Connection Service) eliminates the need for a the router and a separate Proxy. I checked its built in Firewall for Stealth and it passes with flying colors. I have two computers running Win98 on these adapters. Great fun. Small criticism... I wish there was an activity light on the Adapter. There is a power LED and a link LED but neither provide any sense of activity.
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Summary: Poor instructions but great product
Review: I bought this to use with my Win98SE computer. When I decided to upgrade to XP I was worried that it wouldn't work because Linksys has no XP driver (yet). Not to worry. Setup was smooth (even though the directions are not helpful for XP or even 2000 or NT) and I now regularly connect at 11mbs over a distance of about 125 feet. Internet speeds are excellent (I broadcast from a Linksys BEFW11S4 wireless router/firewall) and file transfers are very good. Also nice to be able to print from either of the printers connected to the computers. If you are in a position where running wires is just not feasible or too complicated, this USB device is a very good alternative.
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Summary: Good, but remember to update the firmware!
Review: In general This is a good product. It works almost instantly after I pluged it into a Windows 2000-based system. FYI, the router in the network is SMC7004AWBR. However, on a Windows ME-based PC, it did not work the first time. I kept verifying all my settings, but I didn't see anything wrong. Finally, I downloaded the latest firmware and driver update from Linksys website, and it works fine since then! I am very happy that I have setup a home network with 3 computers sharing the super-fast cable modem connection.
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Summary: It simply didn't work.
Review: I use a Linksys wireless router, which works perfectly with my notebook's wireless PCMCIA card (made by Linksys). I naturally expected to have no problem with the wireless USB adapter ... but no luck at all! The configuration routine for the USB hub doesn't duplicate the capability of the configuration routine for the hub --- I couldn't input a security phrase and generate a 64-bit WEP "key" to match the one programmed into the hub. When I disabled WEP on both the hub and the USB adapter, or manually duplicated the key, there was still no joy.
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Summary: Great Addition to the Wireless in a Box
Review: This is a great complimentary item to the WAP11. Plus the cost is somewhat lower than purchasing the PCI Adapter/Wireless card combo.
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Summary: Difficult to set up, works with some glitches
Review: My setup has five PCs located widely scattered through my home. Two are notebooks using the Linksys PC Card wireless adapter, and the other three are desktops using this USB adapter. It took me over a week to get the first two desktops working correctly, and I still note that their ability to talk to each other is somewhat intermittant. I expect that it will take another month to get the rest of the PCs all talking to each other. In the process of setting these adapters up, I found that each of the PCs where I have it working has now lost the ability to access email and the Internet via their dial-up modem (no DSL or cable broadband in my neighborhood yet). This will probably have to be fixed through a complete reinstall of dial-up networking. Finally, I note that this equipment does not provide the software necessary to have one PC be an Internet host, using it's modem to access the Web with all the other PCs able to get to the Web through that one connection. My installation was probably complicated by the fact that I was using an Intel phoneline network before this, and there may be some installed software that is competing with this new equipment.
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Summary: Good, not perfect, but good
Review: This is what I use for my laptop, since my PC Card slot is broken. It was very easy to install and use. The only drawback I see is that just on the other side of the house, I tend to get a number of slowdowns to 1 mbps, while watching the comm status, but maybe that's the nature of wireless. Just like your cordless phone, it transmits much less distance than they advertise.
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Summary: Excellent device with one exception
Review: When the cable guy finished installation of my cable Internet, and left me with a six foot network cable, I was more than happy that I was surfing a blinding speeds. The one catch however was that the only cable outlet in my house was in a small nook, behind the TV, in my living room on the first floor of my house. I knew I had to go wireless. I've never set up a network before, so needless to say I was nervous even ordering the parts. And I've always been weary of USB as well, so that just added to the stress. But when it finally came, I hooked it up, installed the software on my PC, and had it configured and running in less than five minutes. I love the little icon in my system tray that let's me know how well the connection is going. And I can open it up to get exact statistics for both signal strength, and signal quality (as well as much more). I have multiple PC's in my office, and I use a switch so I only have to worry about one monitor, one mouse, and one keyboard. The switch has USB ports on it, so I can use this one device for two of my three computers. The one computer I can't use it for, and this is what really gets me, is my G3. Who's had USB for years before it was popular? Apple. Who do they make software for? Only Windows. Big let down here guys. I don't know too much about the technology being used so I can hardly rate the devices functioning itself, but if you're a novice like me looking for a quick way to go wireless, this device makes it a snap.
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Summary: Almost perfect product has a serious flaw
Review: This wireless ethernet transceiver can be very helpful in setting up a network not only because it's extremely easy to install (USB plug and play) but because it's the cheapest 802.11 transceiver I've found. It does, however, have a serious drawback... the internal antenna which has a limited range compared to every other 802.11 device I have tested, including PC cards. Even with "line-of-sight" to an Access Point only 100 feet away, the signal strength ranges from good to weak, occassionally dipping down to 2 Mbps. This is, of course, with other 802.11 devices operating in the same building even though they're designed to work with each other in proximity. There is one real nice feature in the configuration software... just double click on the icon on your task bar and you can pull up a "Site Survey" of all available access points with their respective name, ESSID, channel#, MAC address, and signal strength. This feature alone well justifies the cost because it acts as a conservative diagnostic tool when setting up an 802.11 network. P.S. It's self-powered via USB and you may want to invest in a USB extension cable to allow placement of this device in a better location.
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Summary: Not Exactly as Decribed...
Review: I've used this product for about 5 months or so and was a bit disappointed with the signal strength of my computer connected to the adapter after the first hour of using it each time. When you first plug in the adapter to the network, its signal strength is described as "excellent". Not too long after, it drops to "good" to "poor" in a matter of 20 minutes. After that such time, the signal would constantly cease to work, but then to kick back up to the "poor" signal strength every few minutes. I would have to make the prediction that my router and adapter are no further than 100 ft apart and one floor difference in my house. The product details on this site describe it to having 300ft range. I would expect that the signal strength would not fade to minimal or none after viewing that description, but after short usage or minimal intereference (i.e. a person walking by the adapter) the signal should not (but does) lose most if not all its signal strength. However, a month ago I decided to try using the LinkSys Wireless-B Signal Booster (WSB24) in the attempt to boost my signal to the adapter. It was an extremely easy "piggy-back" set up to my Wireless Router, and wouldn't you know it, the adapter has been working like a charm ever since. The average signal strength is now mostly "very good", every now and then rising to "excellent" or falling to "good". I give this product 3 stars because it probably works great 75-50 ft or less from the router to the adapter, but it's irritating and aggravating that I have to spend more money and more time to improve this product's performance ($50 for a booster!). Unfortunately, I don't think Amazon sells this product anymore. I got mine at Circuit City.
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