I had been really impressed by the high ranking of this item on amazon as well as its affordable price. Then I bought it and expected its excellent performance. However, it really disappointed me. So I had to return it.
First, installation from CD was painful although it is recommended in the description of the product. It was very slow, and some error message came up in the last step. I tried twice and met the same situation. It looked that the installation was incomplete, but that was not the case. The internet connection was actually set up already. What's more, the linksys easylink advisor(LELA) was a nightmare to me. If you would like use it to configure your wireless network, you would just waste your time. I always failed to set up wireless network using LELA, and it would prevent other softwares (like windows wireless network connection and thinkpad access)from configuring your wireless network. Finally, I had to uninstall the LELA to set up the wireless connection. After that, I found the CD was almost useless because you can easily initialize the router by going to http://192.168.1.1 and specifying all parameters. There is a detailed instruction on the website of linksys.
Second, the wireless connection was unstable. It seems that you need to wait several minutes for the stabilizing. Although the signal is very strong, but the repeating connect-unconnect cycles were really unbearable. Furthermore, it would be interrupted suddenly and I had to reboot the router to let it work again. This is a deadly strike for playing online games.
Someone may say you can use third-party firmware or software to manage this linksys router. But that's not the excuse that the product could be unstable or hard to use.Get more detail about Linksys WRT54G2 Wireless-G Broadband Router.
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