Cisco-Linksys WAP54G Wireless-G Access Point
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Customer Review: Yet Another Wireless Piece of JUNK!!!
Summary: 1 Stars
This thing is JUNK!!! Don't waste your money. I am a computer professional and I had it working for about 5 minutes, then after powering it down and back up it never did work again! If you buy one, go through the setup and if it doesn't work immediately SEND IT RIGHT BACK TO AMAZON! Don't waste your precious time trying to get a $70 brick to do wireless because the odds are that you will just be wasting your time.
Finally, Amazon likes to keep the good reviews toward the top of the list to keep the potential customer from being discouraged. However, YOU SHOULD PAY MORE ATTENTION TO THE BAD REVIEWS THAN THE GOOD ONES. If the product is in fact good it won't have many bad reviews, or even possibly none at all if it is exceptional. However, look up all the bad reviews for this product. They should tell you that something is seriously wrong with this product.
Customer Review: very good WAP
Summary: 4 Stars
I have recently purchased your WAP54G. I did so becuase I have used other products like your 4 port BEFSR41 router/hub and it has worked great. Installation was a problem. I tried to install on a hardwired computer on the network with WinME OS. It didn't detect the access point. But I called and got a rep in less than 2 min and I had WEP installed and turned out the WAP was actually working with no installation at all. I popped the wireless notebook card (WPC54G) into my notebook with WinXP OS and again in less than 5 minutes, it was working. The hardest part of the install of a wireless network using your devices was actually typing in the WEP encryption key. I am very impressed. Total time to install a workign wireless network, less than 10 minutes. Hard to beat that. You won't get 54 MBPS though. Still very very fast. No problem with online games etc..Customer Review: Access Point needs constant rebooting
Summary: 2 Stars
This unit installed fairly easily. I mounted it in a first floor closet where it now provides an excellent signal to the entire first and second floors (my base wireless router takes care of the family room floor in the basement).
HOWEVER, I find that I constantly have to power it on and off to get my portables back online when they have been "asleep" for awhile - so frequntly that I installed a power bar in the closet just so I wouldn't have to unplug the Access Point to reboot it. None of the standard approches to "fix" the connection from the computers themselves works. One portable is an IBM using XP while the other is an HP using Vista, so it's apparently not an operating system or hardware issue. Besides these same computers did not have this problem connecting to my base router (also a Lynksys, although older), before I bought the Access Point.
Customer Review: LOUSY Tech Support
Summary: 1 Stars
I called the "No-Help" line after running into a minor issue with the WAP54G that I was setting up as a repeater. The individual who "assisted" me was worse than anything I could do alone. After I got off the phone, over 2 hours later, my laptop could not even connect to the wireless network at home. This individual would not pay attention to anything I said, instead seeming to read off a script. When I asked to speak with a supervisor, he said he was the floor supervisor.IF you buy this product, search the help section on their website for articles. Because if you have to call their "no-help" line you are in for trouble.
Work on it yourself or find a store that will come out and set it up for you instead. Linksys tech support = worthless!!! The lack of adequate tech support is the main reason for the poor rating.
Customer Review: Don't buy unless you have an IT background
Summary: 2 Stars
I bought this as an upgrade to the BEFW11S4. I already had plenty of the WPC11 cards so thought this would be a simple change of boxes. It wasn't. The new box found the Internet right away but I could not get any of my laptops to communicate with it wirelessly. Finally, I found an article on the Linksys knowledgebase suggesting changing the transmission rate on the Advanced tab to Auto from whatever it was at out of the box if you have a mixed (b) and (g) network. After that, my WiFi laptop with XP found the network. I still can't get my other laptops that have actual WPC11 Linksys cards to work with it. I've fiddled with every advanced setting there is--simple things like Beacon rate, fragmentation threshold, preamble mode, RTS threshold. Still no luck. I'm about four hours into it so far. Big loss of valuable time.