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The adaptor is on the first floor almost on the other end of the house. Most all shoes now can be found on the internet and now you can even watch them in hi-def.
I had it installed and running in less than 5 minutes. I use it in conjunction with the recommended Linksys RangePlus wireless router.
I've owned this product for several months now and I have been extremely pleased with it. Since owning this product I have actually cancelled my cable TV and just watch internet TV on my desktop hooked to my 42" LCD in my family room.
My adaptor is plugged into the back of an old desktop running Windows XP SP2 using the USB extender cord that comes with it. I have this desktop hooked up to my LCD TV and use it to watch videos from Hulu, YouTube, and the networks websites (ABC, CBS, NBC).
My router is on the second floor toward the front of my house. I get just as fast of a transfer speed from it as I do on my computer that is "hard-wired" to the cable internet.
Don't know if it's a defect or this is all you get, but the range is much poorer than the old adapter I was trying to replace. Took many attempts to load s/w and drivers on Vista.I'm sending it back. "range plus". not so much.
Worked great out of the box. Installation took only 5 minutes. Would buy again.
I had to buy a wireless adaptor to use with my Sony Vaio because the WLAN card that comes in my laptop works very poor, and has problems to get strong signals form the router. I had to restarted by it did not affect the product performance. Thinking about my problem was interference from other devices, and lack of reliable speed in my laptop, I decided to go ahead for this product.
I thought the best idea would be to buy a new adaptor, easy to install,a nd hopefully USB. Fantastic. In the meantime, some other laptops and equipment that I have connected to the same router have no problems at all.
I installed last night and prove it, and found this is very reliable, and keeps the speed of transfer data is 54.0 Mbps, which is the maximum I can get. So, I spent couple of hours surfing the internet and doing my reseach to make sure I get the right product. So, I went to the store and got this range plus product because it has multiple antennas inside, so their promise is to get reliable signal and reach.
So, now I can listen to radio, watch videos online and not to worry about "freezing" screeens, and broken listening.The only down side is the fact that after clicking finish in the CD installation my computer got freezed. I will still test it for about two weeks to see if signal keeps same rate.
I've had this adapter for a year now, and it's been a year of constant dropped connections, blue screens, and software problems. When you don't use the included software, your speeds get throttled down to about half of what was promised on the package.and you still get randomly disconnected and attached to the slower open networks in your neigborhood. It never connected anywhere near the promised speeds, the software supporting it makes things seem simple.until you have to fix a problem.
It didn't help--but it did make me feel I'd just flushed more money down the LinkSys tubes. When the included software does work, you might find that one day it decides your network is differently configured. At one point I upgraded my router because I was told this adapter needed newer tech.
Not using the software also causes problems, most likely because the newest driver I could find as of July 24th 2009.was from 2007. You wouldn't know I'm a LinkSys fan from this review, but I am--that's why here I am very disappointed. This adapter, unfortunately, is garbage.
The Default configuration makes changes to your settings that don't work, and then you're off to reinstall the software from scratch (because you can edit any connections except the Default one, and you can't change the Default connection to be another connection). Sadly, when I look for anything newer on the LinkSys site.this is allegedly as good as it gets.Even worse, the LinkSys forums have users recommending you pull drivers down from the Taiwanese manufacturer of the chipsets, because they work better on LinkSys' products than LinkSys' own drivers (and they're newer, too).Not recommended--look elsewhere unless/until LinkSys can go back to writing decent software and drivers.
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