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Summary: Give enough distance between wall outlets
Review: The wall outlet you use for the Adapter should be far away from the wall outlet you use for the power strip (where you connect to computer, monitor, printer, scanner, etc.) Otherwise, you may have trouble. I had no connection when the Adapter used the same multiple wall outlets with the power strp. I continued to have problems when they were 3 yd apart. Now they are 6 yd apart the it seems to work well.
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Summary: It was "plug in & go," no joke
Review: These babies worked right out of the box with xp. Plugged one into a laptop, and the other into a switch, and it immediately worked. Is it fast? Well, I'm used to 100baseT & 1000baseT, so no, I don't think it's fast per se, but it's a lot easier than stringing wires from room to room in a house where all the walls are closed up (or hoping wireless maintains connection over a long period of time).I did experience one caveat: If my laptop entered suspend mode, sometimes the connection would seize upon restart...not always, just sometimes. Who knows what the laptop's ethernet port is doing during suspend restart, but it isn't something these network devices always like. Minor issue imho - just leave the laptop up.
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Summary: When it works it's great, when it fails it's impossible
Review: These things look like a great deal. You plug them in and off they go. The problem is when something goes wrong - there is no way to troubleshoot or resolve issues. Unplugging and plugging back in is your only option. Netgear support does not exist. My area is prone to power spikes and very brief failures (less than a second) due to area construction, these events kill the network. Sometimes unplugging and plugging back in works, sometimes it does not and then you have no recourse but to leave them unplugged and hope someday they will decide to work again. For me, these things are better than nothing but only marginally so ...
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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: Works well, but beware of the iPod AC charger!
Review: This is a 'comment' rather than a full review -
I use this device to connect my Vonage box to the house router. Works great - no programming required, just 'magically' extends the port of the router through the house wiring to a convenient local outlet. BUT (and this is very odd) the network shut down / I lost my phone connection etc when my girlfriend plugged her IPod with AC charger into the house power. Suddenly, the Netgear link was dead. VERY VERY weird. I suspect the iPod was trying to detect a network through it's AC power supply, and these pings or whatever were causing problems with the Netgear. Be advised.
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Summary: Works well, but beware of the iPod AC charger!
Review: This is a 'comment' rather than a full review -
I use this device to connect my Vonage box to the house router. Works great - no programming required, just 'magically' extends the port of the router through the house wiring to a convenient local outlet. BUT (and this is very odd) the network shut down / I lost my phone connection etc when my girlfriend plugged her IPod with AC charger into the house power. Suddenly, the Netgear link was dead. VERY VERY weird. I suspect the iPod was trying to detect a network through it's AC power supply, and these pings or whatever were causing problems with the Netgear. Be advised.
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Summary: TOTALLY BLOWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Review: When it decides to bless you with actually working it's fine. Mine goes out at 6 PM every night, on weekend afternoons, and right now (10:30 am on a friday) I've had to keep a dial up service too! How hard does that blow?
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Summary: It's the Bee's Knees!
Review: Wow! I thought I was cutting-edge with my Wi-Fi home network, but these little silver gizmos are so George Jetson! Plug one into your wall, connect it to your router or directly to your DSL or Cable Modem and then take another Silver Gizmo (yes you need at least two of these babies) and plug it into any electrical outlet in your home and connect it to the ethernet port of a computer. Presto! Instant Network! Who needs Wi-Fi? Now I've got new super-charged POWERLINE with Frammistan!
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