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Summary: Linksys Signal booster took me from 34% to 83% thru concrete
Review: I Purchased the Linksys Signal Booster for 81$ on Amazon.com, any store I found it in would run me $99, so I give Amazon 5*****Stars + with FREE shipping, :). Thru 2 concrete walls and about 30 yards, + 1 1/2 inch think would wall, the Booster took me from 34% strength to 83% strength. Quality went from 92% to 100%. Everything is faster and more stable. Excellent Deal and Product. btw, my neighbor 100yards away and also behind concete, well he gets 43% strength, up from 24%, and thats across the street from me. I can now walk 200yards in any direction and have internet access. Ofcourse at 200yards service is real slow.
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Summary: This Product Is Clearly Garbage
Review: I've been a longstanding Linksys customer. Linksys has clearly manufactured a garbage product in that this device is NOT compatible with the devices it states as compatible. As stated in other reviews here, you have to have specific releases of the Wireless Router in order for it to work.I ordered this device and went home on lunch to hook it up. When doing so my wireless signal went to zero. I disconnected and reconnected it twice thinking I must have done something wrong. Lo, after calling their technical support and verifying my information, this product is not compatible. Shame on Linksys. If I could I would give this product zero stars as Linksys has made no effort to state the limited compatibility. The phone rep cheerfully told me to "Take it back to the store." Nice strategy, Linksys. Hello Dlink!
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Summary: Sailing steady and fast
Review: I hooked up the booster on top of the router just as advertised. The 1/2 inch thick ends of the 2 antennas from the router had to be pulled off with plyers so the thinner and shorter remaining antenna would fit the booster. That was not in the instructions and should not have been needed anyway since I just bought the router two weeks earlier from this site. The design is defective. Anyway, I pulled off the thick ends in about tens seconds and tossed them out, after realizing what had to be done. I then went to my pocket pc, loaded the flash card in place, walked away through a few walls and rooms to see the difference. The connection was marginal or out of range as usual for about one minute. Then bing bang, I was flying as if I was on top of the router. What a kick! Worth $82 if you cannot put your router in a more central place in the home to have great service all over.
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Summary: Deceptive compatibility
Review: I have a BEFW11S4v4 linksys router/AP. My roommate's connection to the AP was aweful, signing on and off every 5 seconds with the signal strength jumping from 5% to 90%. This was the reason for me buying the WSB24, to see if I could fix this (turns out it was his wireless card that wasn't compatible with my AP; had no trouble connecting to the neighbors unencrypted AP and staying connected). Come to find out from Linksys (great support) the WSB24 isn't compatible with the v4 version of the AP. Could be that the WSB24 product and packaging was released before the v4 of the AP, but how many unsuspecting people are going with this exact setup and it not working for them? I did check the signal strengh before and after on both roommates computers & using a laptop throughout the apartment and building. From what I saw there was an almost unnoticable increase in performance. Turns out I was right. I give it a 3 only because I dont know how it would perform on a compatible AP.
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Summary: Great for old houses
Review: I recently moved into an old brick house with dense plaster and brick walls. Although my WAP worked great before in a condo with drywall, I was having serious signal strength problems in the older house I moved to. The WSB24 solved all that, quickly and easily. Install took a few minutes and my laptops went from "low" wireless reception in parts of the house to "vey good" and "excellent" with the booster. It really works as claimed.
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Summary: WSB24
Review: Recently installed Linksys router and cannot get signal @ 34 feet away from AP. Bought booster and the signal barely improved! How can Linksys get away with this? I have a $30 cordless phone that has better reception than my $300+ wireless system!
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Summary: Better, but not best
Review: Of all the network equipment I've added to my home, this has been the easiest to install. You take your existing Wireless router, unscrew the antennas, connect them to the booster, and then connect the booster to the router where your antennae used to be. Before buying this I was having problems with signal strength. Sometimes I'd have dropouts despite there not being a great deal of interference or distance between my router and my machines. I have to give Linksys credit: this booster *did* improve the quality of my network signal. Just not by much. I tried other positions and moving the antenna, but there really wasn't anything to write home about in the upgrade. If this booster were about half as expensive as it's listed here (currently $81), I'd say it's almost worth the money. However, unless you're really having a lot of trouble with your network, you do a lot of file transfers from one machine to another, or you simply insist on tweaking things, you might want to pass on this product and consider waiting for a better wireless standard to upgrade to, like 802.11g.
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Summary: Just like it says, it boosts your signal
Review: You should note that nowhere in the documentation does it say HOW MUCH it boosts your signal. It just boosts it. Well, I agree, it boosted my signal. My problem was that I live in an old building with dense walls (and maybe lead paint), so two rooms away from the router I was only getting about 15-25% signal. After I installed the booster (very easy), I'm getting 70% signal. If you just have one access point, this is the best way to increase your signal.
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Summary: Linksys WSB24 Signal Booster Delivers
Review: We live in a 2,200 square foot, old (1927) house with plaster & lathe walls, and wood shingles. With the base station located in an office on one end of the house, the wireless network's signal was Fair to Good through only half of the house, and wouldn't reach outside to the patio. My goal was to provide internet access throughout. Some reviews stressed that this booster would enhance signal strength within the existing range, but could not be counted on to expand that perimeter. Mission: Accomplished! The booster installation only requires simple screw on connections, and takes no more than 3 minutes. The unit is functional immediately. Signal strength is at least Poor to Good both outside and inside, even up on the second floor. Even at this level of performance, internet connection speed through our cable modem is still fast. This product did exactly what I needed. Amazon's price was $28 (29%) less than local electronics retail stores. Free shipping by UPS arrived in 4 days. Thanks you Amazon and Linksys!
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Summary: Great product, but WiFi throughout your house? Not quite...
Review: Probably around 2/3 of the walls in my home are brick. For whatever reason, this has always limited my ability to use my Linksys wireless router as far away as I could in an apartment with drywall. Anyway, adding the signal booster was an improvement. It doesn't extend coverage to the entire house, but it does boost the strength of the signal to the point that I don't have to worry about drop-offs in the next room (which is behind a brick wall). Installation was not even a 5 minute process, but don't think that getting WEP encryption up and running will be an easy process. I had to be walked through it on the phone by a Linksys tech support guy (who was great).
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