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Linksys WRT55AG Dual-Band Wireless A+G Access Point + Cable/DSL Router with 4-Port 10/100 Switch |
Rating: 2 (out of 5)
Summary: It works, sort of
Comments: I purchased this to add 802.11a to my wireless network, and I do not think I'll be keeping it for long. I am not impressed.
I replaced my otherwise perfectly great Netgear router with this one, and other than the 802.11a support, found nothing to endorse this unit over the Netgear.
Installation is painful and took a lot of monkeying around. There is an obscure however obviously necessary step called "MAC Address Cloning" that seems to be an essential part of getting the thing to work. I have no idea what this does and the option did not even exist on my Netgear router, however I couldn't get anywhere until I did it on the Linksys. I also found that I had to reset my cable modem several times during the installation process. I do not remember having to do this with the Netgear. Oh, and the default internet access policy after a reset is to deny all computers access to the internet 24/7. It took a lot of digging around to figure out why my computers could talk to each other however not to the internet.
The Linksys management UI is not as friendly as the Netgear. Neither the MAC address filtering nor the static IP setup pages support naming devices, so if you want to keep track of what you have set up, you will need to maintain a separate spreadsheet of device names vs MAC addresses. The Netgear UI supports naming devices.
Upon getting it running, I immediately noticed a massive slowdown in the speed of my network. Downloads are taking much longer than they did with the Netgear, and the Netflix instant viewing speed test has downgraded the quality of my network from "Best" to "Basic." Not happy with this.
I set the thing up yesterday and had a 100% signal strength when I went to bed. When I came down this morning, I was at 56%. My laptop is 20 feet from the router and did not move during the night. Still trying to figure this1out.
I think it's time to throw in the towel, run some wires through the wall to replace the 802.11a requirement, and go back to my Netgear router for normal 802.11b/g stuff. There just doesn't seem to be a well endorseed solution for 802.11a support that I can find. |
Rating: 5 (out of 5)
Summary: GET THIS PRODUCT!!!!!!!!!! DO NOT LISTEN TO THE IDIOTS COMPLAINING!!
Comments: I am dead serious. Tis is a great product. i was stupid enough to listen to these morons that do not know how to set up a wireless router and go with a dlink di-784. Man was i dumb. that router caused nothing however lockups, and screwed up my cable modem,even after the firmware upgrades i did. I am happy i purchased this product. Set up was a breeze and simple. follow it step by step as it says on the cd. although i did not have to,however i did anyways, upgrade the firmware. as there is always something that is updated by anybody. and if your cable modem has a reset howeverton, reset or powercycle the modem!! thne ething will work!! ething was set up in a matter of minutes and easy to use!! |
Rating: 1 (out of 5)
Summary: This thing is a hunk of garbage.
Comments: Completly unreliable. Drops the connection at least once a week and requires power cycling, until it gets to the point where it just doesn't work anymore. Wireless connections are hit or miss, and the wired connections also tend to drop out. I can not believe a company is allowed to sell a product this awful. Linksys should refund e customer that wasted their time and money with this junk. |
Rating: 1 (out of 5)
Summary: Great when it stays connected - too bad it rarely does that.
Comments: I am never purchaseing another Linksys product again. The Linksys support forums are full of people complaining about their routers, seems like pretty much all of them, disconnecting for no reason and they offer no help. |
Rating: 1 (out of 5)
Summary: Horrible router, probably the worst produced today
Comments: Amazon did their portion, the seller did send the item quicker (still slow by todays standards) than usual with any Amazon company. Do not purchase this router, the other stories of poor connection quality on WIRED ports is true. Wireless is virtually worthless unless you configure a specific frequency to use, then it still drops regularly, even when sitting 2ft from the router. I thought I had upgraded from a D-Link, now I am back to using what works and I am stuck with this pile of garbage and out the money. DO NOT purchase THIS ROUTER, THERE ARE BETTER AVAILABLE. |
