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Summary: Works great, right out of the box!
Review: Being a part-time programmer and game developer; not having to troubleshoot is a plus. I'm using WRT55AG for my Indie game company's main network. I was fearful, based on others having problems with the unit. Suggestion, make sure you buy this unit with the right drivers; Amazon.com sells the right version. Also before you buy, educate yourself on your surroundings, make sure you note most of the signal blockers(stone, pipes, heavy[thick]walls, etc) and then decide if wireless is right for you. If you do choose to go wireless, try to put the WRT55AG up higher than your desk; giving the radio signals a helping hand to clear objects and to help boost your reception. Why do you think radio towers are so high? ;)My workstation #2 had Quake(tm) 3 Arena set to multi-player(LAN). I took my Alienware(tm) laptop which has 802.11a/b built in, outside, and walked around. Although the signal got weak when blocked or further I walked away from the WRT55AG; I was still able to play Quake(tm)3 Arena in multi-player mode quite nicely. The WRT55AG has to work to push the signal around some of my signal blockers, two of which are concrete steps and some brick layers. Again, placing my unit higher than my computer table should help increase the signal strength. I would recommend WRT55AG to anyone considering wireless. Bill B., CEO
BabyBoy Multimedia Productions
Seattle, WA USA
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Summary: Buggy
Review: Bought unit when it first became available and it was immediately apparent that the DHCP server was unreliable. Linksys tech support acted as if I were insane, however. Then several months later came along a firmware update that, shock of shocks, stated in the release notes that it fixed a DHCP server that would cut out after 5 minutes. Now, the unit disconnects ALL 802.11b clients for 1-2 minutes every 5-60 minutes, and Linksys again is acting as if there is no problem. I've tried different channels and the other obvious solutions. I'm sure in a month or two (I write this in 12/2003) there will be a firmware update to solve THIS problem...
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Summary: Just Troubles
Review: Each day work worsts. Really I think I was rip my money. If I could return it I would. But just only 30 days to return.
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Summary: Wireless-A is useless in a home, use Wireless-G.
Review: I bought the WRT55AG as a way of consolidating everything with wireless in my home. For the most part, I've found Wireless-A to be useless in my house. Its range drops off easily and the quality of signal fluctuates enough to make it useless to me. Thus, I use Wireless-G as my primary connection mechanism. It's generally been solid, though once every couple of weeks the router flakes out for no apparent reason and I have to power recycle the box. Were I to do this again, I would not bother with Wireless-A: it's more expensive and isn't particularly effective indoors. Except for the problem mentioned above, the box has been pretty stable, much more so than my experience the Siemens Speedstream (Wireless-B only) it replaced.
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Summary: Don't buy this one; try Buffalo
Review: I bought this Linksys WRT55AG at Fry's on my trip to the US then come back Taiwan. Tried to set it up with my ADSL dial-up (dynamic IP) for whole night and still can't get throught the line. Its WAN/PPPOE doesn't work at all.
What happened is it retried PPPOE dialing to the ADSL modem for couple of times; could't establish the line for some unknown reason; then simply RESET itself. Once it reset, the PC used to configure it through Ethernet port runing IE Browser lost connection, then I have to wait for the lengthy bootup sequence before IE browser can connect it, then it failed to establish ADSL dail-up again, then RESET, then .... This happened just like a dead loop until I unpluged the ADSL modem.
After all night failure, I downgraded it to be an AP(instead of an IP sharing router that it supposed to be) and used WinXP to do the PPPOE job, then everything was just fine (even with strong AES security ON, but I just tried G band, not A band). But why you pay extra for this useless "router" feature?
Its PPPOE protocol definately has bug, and the RESET-system-upon-WAN-failure problem make this bug un-tolerable.
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Summary: Poor Performer
Review: I bought this product expecting to get good performance on both the 802.11a and 802.11g radios simulataneously. Boy was I disappointed. Whenever I use my 802.11a laptop, the 802.11g radio range from my desktop machine suffers. How can Linksys really claim this to be a dual-band router? It does not perform as expected. I'll be returning it for a refund. SAVE YOUR MONEY UNTIL A GOOD PRODUCT IS AVAILABLE.
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Summary: Works in NYC where walls are thick and loads of interference
Review: I bought this router the other day as a replacement for a 802.11b router that fried itself (wired worked, radio dead). It arrived in 1 day and it worked fine right out of the box - I'm using A at home with a laptop that has A/B built in - - no problems, through thick walls in my apt. the range is actually better than my old router using 802.11b. And, the best part is that my cordless phones work much better thanks to no conflict of wireless frequency/channels. Not sure why others are having issues...
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Summary: Not Happy with the Product- WRT55AG
Review: I bought WRT55AG a month ago. My main concern is with DHCP server and DDNS feaure.
DHCP server won't serve the IP address until the router is reset.It happens very frequently.
DDNS funcation is always disabled even if you provide all the setting for your DDNS provider.
I contacted customer support 3-4 times but no luck. Customer service is not good.
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Summary: Wep encryption
Review: I had a Linksys BEFW11S4 with a problem with WEP encryption. It would loose connectivity every 3 min . Not enabling IEEE 801.11b certification on the apropriate checkbox... solved it. Seems a problem in windoze not in the router itself (don't know what's the effect of doing that).
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Summary: An Expensive Dud
Review: I have used other Linksys equipment with great results, so when I recommended this unit to a friend I was sorely disappointed when it failed to meet his (and my) expectations. There are multiple problems with using Yahoo webcams via this router. The tech support people have a fix for one (the "superwebcam bug") but are unwilling or unable to understand that it is not the only bug. Regular Yahoo webcams do not function either until the WRT55AG router is taken out of the system. As observed elsewhere, Linksys tech support treats you like you're crazy or simply ignores your pleas for help. As a Cisco shareholder, I actually approached this company with a bias in their favor. And I would have been able to forgive them if they had admitted there is a bug and set a date for a bug fix software update. The buggy firmware has not been updated since June, 2003. As it stands my friend invested $500 on a complete wireless A+G network on my recommendation. I told him he was getting a top of the line system. It has never met his (reasonable) expectations. It has never worked as well as my much cheaper BEFW11S4 wireless router. He has to manually remove the WRT55AG every time he wants to view Yahoo Webcams and later plug it back in again to make his wireless network partially functional again. In short, if you want a Linksys wireless router, get the BEFW11S4; it costs way less, it's fast enough for use with DSL and cable modems and works so well that you will never have to use their dysfunctional technical support. If you want an all band A+G router look elsewhere or wait until version 1.04 of the firmware for this one has been fixed.
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