Customer Reviews:
  Keeps me connected. November 3, 2008
This was purchased early June '08 after two iPod touch units were in the house.
Setup was easy. Up and running in ten minutes. Great speed on the iPods in all rooms and even outside. We have two laptops that run with wired like speeds. Wired of course is also good. Guests with their laptops log in and marvel at the internet access. Never a problem. The Linksys WRT54G2 is highly recommended here. Others may want to upgrade to 'N' wireless but this runs just fine for now.
 Could not get it to work November 2, 2008
I never was able to get it installed on my vanilla XP system. No LAN connection, just a DSL line and my computer.
Called the 800 number and spent almost 3 hours in a difficult to understand conversation. The rep was very pleasant but difficult to understand.
Did multiple variations of reset, power on/off, reboot, change settings, etc. Finally the rep gave up saying it was "broken...take it back to the store."
Amazon took it back and issued credit.
 Slick product, decent range November 2, 2008
I had a W54 for a really long time, and it worked very well. After I moved into a two-bedroom, I found the range lacking.
So I decided to try this product, it may have improved the single strength a little in my second bedroom, but its not phenominally different. Its still a very good product, sleek and occupies very little space.
 Disappointed with the Range November 1, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
I have placed this router in one of my rooms and expected it to cover my 1272 sq. feet house. But somehow it is not covering this. It is placed in my bed room and i have zero range in the living room. I wonder how I can increase its range :-( It doesnt even have a way to plug in high powered antennas.
also on another note, some people (like me) buy this router in the expectation that it can be flashed with a 3rd party open source firmware to do more cool stuff. However as of today no other 3rd party firmware is supported on this router.
Absolutely horrible November 1, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I purchased this product from the local store to replace an old Linksys router that broke. It has been a month of trying to make this garbage work with all the computers and laptops at home and I am still having all kinds of problems. It works fine with the desktop computer that it is connected to but it just does not work any way with any of the laptops. I tried calling Linksys and the tech pretty much said that bsaed on the information I gave him it does not seem likely that it will work with both laptops, maybe with one of them at a time. I asked him to walk me through the steps of verifying the set up and he wouldn't do it unless I paid him $10 and let him log into my machine remotely which I could not do as it had sensitive work information. He HUNG UP!!! I called a local IT person who came to my house and was also unsuccessful in setting it up to work with both laptops. Bottom line, save yourself the trouble and buy something that is actually compatible with more than one computer, that is unless you are only setting up one connection.
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