Linksys by Cisco WRT54G2 Wireless-G Broadband Router
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Customer Review: Excellent Upgrade for your Home Network!
Summary: 5 Stars
I had an old Linksys/Netgear Wireless B router that worked great for my loft/condo for 4 years. The wired connection worked great for my PS3/PC and the wireless was spot on in the whole condo. My wife's laptop was Wireless B so there was never a need to upgrade
We recently moved to a 3 level house and while the router still worked, the performance was poor outside of the immediate vicinity of our office (one end of the house on the second floor).
Fast forward to buying this router, all of a sudden my wireless range increased vastly from one end of the house to the other. I could actually sit on my deck a level up or in my garage one floor below on the other side of the house and still get a decent wireless signal. For PS3 gaming, it was an improvement but not enough as I ended up paying to re-do some wiring to get a wired connection for my games room, but that is not the fault of the router.
The stability of a Linksys router can not be doubted and is excellent.
One other point for those technically savvy - you can hack this router to get access to tweaks that are only available on $500+ routers. This is what made me get this router and I'm not dissapointed (although this will void your warranty - be warned!)
Whole heartedly recommend this router to anyone who does not need anything more than Wireless G (which is what the PS3 used)
Customer Review: Painfully slow
Summary: 2 Stars
Easy to set up and seems to make great connections throughout the house. However, files transfer extremely slowly. Over an hour for an itunes tv program. Watching live video is almost impossible. I wonder if I've done something wrong, but I'm about to throw it away and go back to one PC in the house.Customer Review: router
Summary: 5 Stars
Router works great. Set up included software which I didn't want or need. A demo downloaded and now it keeps coming back and wanting money. Bad software, bad, badCustomer Review: Does a great job but install was bit tricky.
Summary: 5 Stars
Product works great but the installation was a bit tricky and the directions were confusing at best. My husband is a machine designer and even he had difficulty. Customer Review: Quick and Easy
Summary: 5 Stars
Had a WRT54G that started dropping connection, replaced it with this router at $45 from Target. After spending hours the day before trying to set up the WRT54G after resetting it (had to change the default address, clone my MAC address, etc), setting this up took literally 5 minutes. Took it out of the box, popped the CD in my ASUS G1SN-x1 (Windows 7), attached to a black AT&T Westell modem, it guided me through about three steps, and then poof, I was connected. No problem.
I've only had it for a couple of days, so I can't speak to its longevity or reliability, but setup is the breeziest.