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Wireless Game Adapterwireless-g Game Adapter

List Price: $109.99
Your Price: $89.99
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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: WGA54G is useful for X-BOX
Review: WGA54G is easy to connect to your wireless AP or router. Just switch your button to INFRASTRUCTURE mode, and it will connect to your AP automatically. Also you can use setupwizard from PC to setup your WGA54G.

If you want to play peer-to-peer between your X-BOXs. Just switch your button to AD-HOC mode. And then everything is ok.

Even you can use WGA54G like ethernet bridge. It's more cheap instead of WET54G. For your information.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Did not work out of the box
Review: I own the new Linksys WAP54G and purchased the WGA54G to connect my XBOX. I configured the WGA54G to connect to my WAP and plugged it in. I immediately began seeing dropped packets all over my network (both the wireless and ethernet networks). I tried several configurations over a 4 hour period but never got it working. I called Linksys support and they could not help. In fact, they could not even supply me with one potential idea or fix for the problem. They simply put me on hold and then told me to return the product. I'm still looking for a wireless solution for my XBOX.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Worked out of the box, as promised
Review: Originally I was using a Wet 11 connected to my Xbox on a Linksys 802.11b network. The configuration of the Wet 11 was difficult but eventually I got everything working. After upgrading my wireless network to 802.11g, even after a great deal of effort I was never able to get my Wet 11 / Xbox connected again.

I bought this WGA54G game adapter, and as promised, it worked right out of the box (well, you still have to configure it from a PC initially). Most pleasing.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Nonfunctional product, nonfunctional customer support
Review: If only Linksys put as much effort into improving the quality of their products as they do trying to cut costs with their support department!

This product SHOULD be plug-and-play, but it's not. Setup is done through a PC, but don't even think about unplugging the power cable before you try to use it; otherwise, it will never connect. And when it does connect, its DHCP doesn't do its job.

It's very difficult getting that green "connect" LED to light up, and Linksys support is no help there. The web-based setup says "disconnected" when the light is lit, and "connected" when the light is dark. Make sense? Of course not. Linksys' only advice is to make sure all your network settings are as they should be; that's it. Guess what: even with the correct settings, this thing still doesn't connect. Think all you need is a firmware update? Wrong again - no fixes available for this paperweight as of June, 2004, and it's been on the market for a year.

In short, don't let the sub-$100 price tag lure you in; this is a hunk of junk. I'm returning mine!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Easy Setup for me...
Review: Well, I bought this item for my Xbox prior to reading all of the troubles most seem to have. My brother, who builds computers, as a side job, recommended the Linksys to me b/c he said they are the leader in wireless internet blah blah.
(I am no computer whiz by any means)
Anyhow, after I ordered it (from another company online), I then decided to check out the reviews on Amazon (I know, I worked backwards on this)...but I definately got worried after reading all the difficulty most have.
But too late, item was shipped.
Upon recieving, I hooked it up to my ROUTER (not computer as the instruction sheet said to) (my router is a Linksys G (not sure model #), then plugged it in the outlet, and ran the setup disk. That took about 2 or 3 minutes.
Then I unhooked it and took it to my Xbox which is in the next room, about 25' from the computer, seperated by a wall.
I hooked it up to my Xbox and plugged it in and was up and running.
Total time it took me to finally play someone online was about 15 to 20 minutes, b/c all of the inputing you have to do to set up online with the Xbox.
So, for me, it works great, no problems.
Only gripe is, this unit runs HOT. Hope that doesn't cause any longevity issues.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: A good buy, but...
Review: I purchased this product for my Playstation 2 after careful speculation, despite certain poor reviews given by some Amazon.com members. I tried for a while to get my computer to "see" the game adapter. Eventually, I just hooked it up to my PS2. Using Madden 2004, I tested the connection. The first time, it did not work. I tried again, this time replugging in the adapter of my router. This seemed to do the trick, at least for madden. However, when I inserted my Tony Hawks Pro Skater 4 disk, it said that the Game Adapter was not connected. My advice: Do not buy this adapter if you want to play THPS4 (It worked fine with my Madden 2004 and Socom games, though)

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Works great!
Review: I took the adapter out of the box, hooked it up to my laptop, followed the instructions and had it setup in under 2 minutes. Surfed the internet for a while using the adapter, then took it to my xbox where I continued to follow the instructions, the xBox went online immediately, signed up for xBox live and started playing online, the whole process took under 10 minutes.

My router is a LinkSys with Speedbooster.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Worked immediately
Review: Despite the presence of plenty of negative reviews about this product, it was the best suited for my needs. I have a Linksys WRT54G router all the way across the house from my PS2, and wanted to play games online. It worked right out of the box. The documentation that comes with all Linksys products is minimal, storing the full owner's manual on the included CD rather than printing a manual when you may not need one. I hooked up the gaming adapter to my router, ran the included CD, then hooked the adapter to my PS2 and was online in about 5 minutes. There was no lag time, even at extremely busy times of day. I understand that installation may not be this simple for everyone, but my installation process was what Linksys intended, and it worked just like it was supposed to. If you want to play online with a game console, I highly recommend this product.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Nice product
Review: The Linksys Wireless-G gaming adapter does what it says for me. The setup cd didn't work, so I had to go in throught the ip address and configure some settings from there, but it only took about 15 minutes. It's now working from 3 stories up at 128-bit encryption. The only problem is that it is a little slow and sometimes drops the connection, but that is probably because it is three stories up from my router. Overall a nice product.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: set it up in 15 mins
Review: After reading many reviews I was scared to buy this as they said making it work was very hard. I got this last week for my xbox and I also got my wireless router that same week and I am clueless to wireless networking(I just learn about B and G wireless, I thought it was all the same I'am that new to this) so I was scared of this after seeing many review.

I got it up and running in no time hook it to my pc then ran the cd and it work, my only thing is sometimies it will drop me form a game and kick me offline not allot but it happen mostly when my AC is off it gets too hot maybe, as when it drops me I feel it and it is very hot but when AC is on it is fine.

Online play is fine when it works no lag and everyone on the mic is loud and clear some games play a lil less laggy now like NBA2k when I would host there would be lag it may also be that I have a new router also but now it plays fine.


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