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Binding: Electronics Brand: Linksys EAN: 0745883559947 Label: Linksys Legal Disclaimer: Layer One UK does not offer any warranty other than the one imposed by the manufacturer. Consequently, the warranty conditions proposed by Layer One UK will be an exact copy of the manufacturers. Manufacturer: Linksys Model: WRT54GS-UK Number Of Items: 1 Platform: Windows XP Publisher: Linksys Release Date: 2007-02-07 Studio: Linksys
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Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: Worldclass Customer Support for the novice Comment: My wife, who is a complete computer novice, had Virgin Media Cable Broadband setup whilst I was out of the country on business. The technician from Virgin Media was very helpful and advised my wife to buy this Linksys wireless router plus a USB adapter for the desktop PC upstairs that is unable to detect a wireless network, unlike our laptops that can. This meant that the technician did not have to stapple an ugly cable all the way upstairs. (Virgin Media technicians are not allowed to drill through walls, but I suppose you could get them to run the cable and then get out the BlacknDecker when they've gone.) Anyway, installing the Wireless router was a daunting prospect for my wife, when she opened the box and found the disc and instructions... so she called me. Within minutes I had read the reviews on this site and knew the solution - phone the Linksys Customer support and let them help you through the process step by step. My wife later sent me a very cheerful email and described herself as a very happy bunny. She said the guys from Linksys customer support were 'fantastic'. They helped her for over an hour to install the router and then get all our machines connected to the wireless network. She said they were incredibly patient with her. They used cloning for the security as well and helped her secure the network. One of my daughters told me that she could see 14 other wireless networks from her laptop, so it is definitely worth securing yours with a password. I hope Linksys do something to help their customers in the Irish Republic, because the featured negative review on this site gives an inaccurate description of Linksys Customer Support for the UK. So, buy this product with confidence, not just because it is a good and reliable product, but because it comes as a package with worldclass customer support. Customer Rating: Summary: The worst router imaginable Comment: I bought this router in March, and it has never worked properly. From the very first day of usage, set-up screens would only load partially and several 'reload's were necessary, buttons clicked would not register, settings would disappear. This got increasingly worse. I then decided to download the new firmware, and install that, and from that moment every set-up screen became blank: no data on it AT ALL, so changing the settings is impossible. After about a 100 attempts to correct this, I've given up; I'm not even going to send it back, I will bin it and buy a real router. The router works, by the way: I need to reboot it only five times a day, and there is no protection on it (I can't set it!), so the whole neighbourhood uses my internet connection, but hey!, who cares. Do yourself a favour, buy something else. Customer Rating: Summary: Poor product quality Comment: purchased this router as a replacement for my long standing B series Linksys router which has a power supply that gets hot. I was also looking to use the firewall feature to limit kids access to the internet late at night and during exam time. Rather than replace the power supplly it appeared to make sense to upgrade to the latest Linksys G series with speedbooster. Previously I had purchased a WRT54GS for a friend and it had worked okay. This should have been a simple replacement, however as much as I try I cannot get the router to be stable in any sense and I am on my 4th attempt at trying to understand what the problem is. Even with the reset settings button pressed and open internet access some hours later the router just stops working meaning I have to revert back to my old Linksys B series. Which is wht I am using now. For the few hours when the wireless router was working I also did some tests against my B series router with two laptops against pcpitstop measuring upload/ download and RTT. I wont go into all the details but essentially on the high spec laptops there was absolutely no noticeable difference. Some cases there was a marginal drop in performance. I use Cisco kit at work and so have an impression of data centre quality when it comes to Cisco kit. This product has tainted my view. Also its not clear how you contact support or send the thing back. I will probably just destroy it and post on youtube as my replacement wireless G router. This will be some compensation for the time spent with this thing Customer Rating: Summary: Irish Buyers Beware Comment: Irish Buyers Beware: This item will NOT work with eircom (and perhaps some other Internet Service Providers). Customer Rating: Summary: Great value for money and easy! Comment: Having a PS3 downstairs and my PC upstairs, it was becoming frustrating taking the PS3 upstairs to download and install updates. I needed something to connect to my existing modem (Virgin Media) so that I could use the PS3 wireless downstairs. In a matter of minutes I was able to set up this wireless broadband router by following the instructions on the CD ROM (supplied). It is now password safe etc and job done! More Reviews
Editorial Reviews: The Wireless-G Broadband Router with SpeedBooster is really three devices in one box. First, there's the Wireless Access Point, which lets you connect Wireless-G, Wireless-B, and other performance-enhanced SpeedBooster devices to the network. There's also a built-in 4-port full-duplex 10/100 Switch to connect your wired-Ethernet devices together. Finally, the Router function ties it all together and lets your whole network share a high-speed cable or DSL Internet connection. The Wireless-G Broadband Router...