Could not get it to workNovember 2, 2008 1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I never was able to get it installed on my vanilla XP system. No LAN connection, just a DSL line and my computer.
Called the 800 number and spent almost 3 hours in a difficult to understand conversation. The rep was very pleasant but difficult to understand.
Did multiple variations of reset, power on/off, reboot, change settings, etc. Finally the rep gave up saying it was "broken...take it back to the store."
Amazon took it back and issued credit.
Slick product, decent rangeNovember 2, 2008 I had a W54 for a really long time, and it worked very well. After I moved into a two-bedroom, I found the range lacking. So I decided to try this product, it may have improved the single strength a little in my second bedroom, but its not phenominally different. Its still a very good product, sleek and occupies very little space.
Disappointed with the RangeNovember 1, 2008 0 out of 2 found this review helpful
I have placed this router in one of my rooms and expected it to cover my 1272 sq. feet house. But somehow it is not covering this. It is placed in my bed room and i have zero range in the living room. I wonder how I can increase its range :-( It doesnt even have a way to plug in high powered antennas.
also on another note, some people (like me) buy this router in the expectation that it can be flashed with a 3rd party open source firmware to do more cool stuff. However as of today no other 3rd party firmware is supported on this router.
Absolutely horribleNovember 1, 2008 3 out of 4 found this review helpful
I purchased this product from the local store to replace an old Linksys router that broke. It has been a month of trying to make this garbage work with all the computers and laptops at home and I am still having all kinds of problems. It works fine with the desktop computer that it is connected to but it just does not work any way with any of the laptops. I tried calling Linksys and the tech pretty much said that bsaed on the information I gave him it does not seem likely that it will work with both laptops, maybe with one of them at a time. I asked him to walk me through the steps of verifying the set up and he wouldn't do it unless I paid him $10 and let him log into my machine remotely which I could not do as it had sensitive work information. He HUNG UP!!! I called a local IT person who came to my house and was also unsuccessful in setting it up to work with both laptops. Bottom line, save yourself the trouble and buy something that is actually compatible with more than one computer, that is unless you are only setting up one connection.
could have been betterOctober 28, 2008 0 out of 2 found this review helpful
the software that comes with this router is so bloated that setting up a network becomes frustrating. anything you want to connect to the wireless network must have the software loaded, which is fine for computers, but is impossible for printers or game consols. The security software prevents even your own laptops from connecting when fully enabled, even though you have the password. so you have to disable it to connect to the internet thereby rendering it useless. Even though the form factor looks good, the functionality is horrible. The linksys wrt54g, which is the older version, is a much more functional wireless router.
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