Netgear MA111 802.11b Wireless USB Adapter

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Summary: Netgear Equals Superb Service
Review: This holiday season I was a good santa and purchased numerous wireless networking products for my various family members. Sure it was partially a selfish act as I wanted to be able to easily connect when I went to visit, but for the most part it was just an act of giving. I purchased mainly G products and they varied from routers to USB adapters to PC Card adapters. I did also purchase a couple of B products for those in the family that already had some wireless networking products (yes, I know they are backwards compatible but I didn't want to take any chances).

Only two members of the family had installation problems (considering my family is very non-technical I was quite impressed) and those two people both had yet to upgrade to Windows XP SP2. The rest of the family members were up and running within minutes.

As for the couple of family members that did have problems, well they called me first (of course) and I told them to just run back through the installation procedure again. This solved the problem for Uncle Dennis but Grandma Joyce still couldn't get it to work properly. I reluctantly told her to call Netgear's technical support (hey the reviews on Amazon haven't been too pretty for their tech support). I however was quite pleased when an hour later I got an email from Grandma Joyce thanking me for the great gift. I called her back and she told me that after fiddling with the settings with the Netgear people she was up and running within 30 minutes.

Overall, I consider this the ultimate test of product quality and support and I would give Netgear two thumbs up.

I hope this review was helpful to you in putting your mind at ease regarding ease of setup and trust of technical support if needed.

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Summary: Perfect!
Review: I ordered the item and had it in less than 24 hours! Can't beat it, these guys are good!

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Summary: No 5 ft USB cable
Review: There is NO 5 ft USB extention cable in the box.

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Summary: horrible experience with installation
Review: the software that comes with it is horrible. Its not windows XP certified and has lot of problems in its performance. i had to install it several times and was puzzled since it used to drop the connection every now and then. finally i had to install it with configuring it to use the windows XP wireless protocol and so far its working fine. its only a day since i have got the adapter and already had to reboot my desktop, router, cable modem atleast 10 times. total crapy software/device.

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Summary: fast and easy
Review: How great is this USB device!!! Just plug and go. I am using it with my 4 year old laptop running windows 98 and my netgear super G wireless router. Great device at a price that is great!!