Cisco-Linksys WMP54G Wireless-G PCI Adapter
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Customer Review: Linksys software is Terrible
Summary: 1 Stars
I have had quite a few Linksys products since I started making a home network, their wired hubs and routers have always worked fine. My problem with Linksys both this product and other wireless cards and wireless routers is the software installation. I have never been able to install a Linksys wireless card or router (including moving a card to a new PC) without several frustrating attempts to install them myself, and that it has always required a call to Linksys support. The same applies to this item, I tried to install, reinstall, remove and install the software myself, 3-4 times, complete failure. Called support, and after about 4 unsuccessful attempts at installation, my connection got cut off in the conversation with the tech, but I can't necessarily blame him or Linksys for the cutoff. Needless to say I returned the item for a prompt refund, and bought a D-link 'N' wireless card as a replacement. My recommendation is to leave Linksys wireless products completely alone, and use another company's product. I will say that after you get a Linksys product working they run quite reliably.Customer Review: Easy, quick and powerful
Summary: 5 Stars
This is one very powerful and easy piece of equipment that you should be able to have up and running in under 10 minutes. I installed it on a relatively new (6 months old) Dell XP desktop. Like they say in the instructions, load the CD BEFORE you try to install the card. Follow the instuctions on the screen and you should be all set. I have an ATT 2WIRE wireless DSL router with an Apple Airport attached for increased range. This card detected both of the wireless routers and asked which one I would like to link up to. Since I was closer to the Airport I chose that one, clicked on it, and I was up and running in seconds. I don't really download a lot of big video files, but what I do download seems to open as quick, if not quicker, than when I was hardwired to the router. Web pages open as quickly also. Sure I installed it on a desktop that isn't going anywhere, but hey - one less wire under my feet.... Now if I could just get my stupid Dell to find and share my printer with my Mac...but that's another story.Customer Review: Multi-faceted poor experience
Summary: 2 Stars
I purchased the WMP54G thinking it would help me along my transition from 802.11b to 802.11g. What a mistake that was!Installation was a chore. On XP, it recognized the new hardware and I told the Hardware Wizard where the drivers were, but once I started to explore the settings in the device panel, things went awry. I selected 802.11b mode in the panel and everything went dead. No problem, I thought...all I needed to do was uninstall the hardware and reinstall. Nope, it kept throwing me errors about resource conflicts. I'm not much of a PC expert, so I decided not to wrestle with IRQ conflicts. I installed the card in another PCI slot and that fixed it, sort of.
Range is abysmal with the little black antenna. My access point is an Apple AirPort Extreme Basestation with a powerful external 8 dBi antenna. Where my Power Mac gets 90% signal strength with its built-in antenna, my PC only two feet away can't connect at all. It's puzzling to say the least. The antenna on the WMP54G is weeeeeaaaak.
Customer Review: A red cent is worth more.
Summary: 1 Stars
How anyone could put a product like this on the market beats me. I have never been so frustrated in installing a piece of hardware into a computer in my fifteen years working with them.
You can toss a coin and come up with the probablity of whether or not it will work in your computer. I tried it in my second one at the suggestion of linksys support (I never talked to anyone in India before)and it worked, whatever that was supposed to prove. The one that it wouldn't work in was the one I wanted to install it into and that one wasn't complyin'. And Linksys support was no help whatsoever. All they did was prove that their was nothing broken on their adaptor. If you buy one of these, make sure you get a list of the computers that it will work in. This card is priority to the nth degree. I tried to install mine during a moonless night and now I'm waiting for a full moon to try it again, before I consult with my vodoo oracle.
Or maybe I'll try to get it exorcised. Seriously! don't buy one.
Customer Review: It is great once it is running
Summary: 3 Stars
I run three computers on my home network using the Linksys Wireless G set up. Running my machine that is plugged into the router is a cakewalk. My suggestion is to get a computer running on your base first. Next, I recommend leaving the defaults as they are until you get your wireless computer connected. If you are connecting to an XP machine, be certain that the configuration utility didn't establish a 'bridge' connection. If it did, you'll want to disable it. In fact, disable all connections on your network screen except for the wireless connection. Once you establish a connection, start setting up your security WEP. XP will not recognize your passphrase and the Linksys software won't let you copy the wep key. What I did was type the key into note pad so that I could then copy and paste it into the XP field. Believe me, this step is a big time saver, you'll get sick of typing the key. Good luck with it, you only need to go through this mess once. It's great after its set up.