Cisco Linksys Routers Item ID: #227Linksys by Cisco WRT54G2 Wireless-G Router
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£49.99
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Item Description- Shares a single Internet connection and other resources with Ethernet wired and Wireless-G and -B devices - Push button setup feature makes wireless configuration secure and simple - High security : Wi-Fi Protected Access 2 WPA2, wireless MAC address filtering, powerful SPI firewall The Linksys Wireless-G Broadband Router is really three devices in one box. First, theres the Wireless Access Point, which lets you connect both screaming fast Wireless-G 802.11g at 54Mbps and Wireless-B 802.11b at 11Mbps devices to the network. Theres also a built-in 4-port full-duplex 10/100 Switch to connect your wired-Ethernet devices together. Connect four PCs directly, or attach more hubs and switches to create as big a network as you need. Finally, the Router function ties it all together and lets your whole network share a high-speed cable or DSL Internet connection. Once your computers are connected to the Router and the Internet, they can communicate with each other too, sharing resources and files. All your computers can print on a shared printer connected anywhere in the house. And your computers can share all kinds of files -- music, digital pictures, and documents. Keep all your digital music on one computer, and listen to it anywhere in the house. Organize all of your familys digital pictures in one place, to simplify finding the ones you want, and easing backup to CD-R. Utilize extra free space on one computer when anothers hard drive starts to fill up. The new Wi-Fi Protected Setup feature makes it easy to configure your wireless devices. Just push the button on the router and on your other Wi-Fi Protected Setup-enabled wireless device to automatically create a WPA2 connection that protects your data and privacy with up to 256-bit industrial-strength encryption. The Router can serve as a DHCP Server, has a powerful SPI firewall to protect your PCs against intruders and most known Internet attacks, supports VPN pass-through, and can be configured to filter internal users Related posts: Item Reviews5 Responses to “Linksys by Cisco WRT54G2 Wireless-G Router”Leave a Reply |
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A week later after the initial installation I must say that I am pretty happy with the router performance and style, but the first two days were a complete nightmare with the support/setup software. My advice is to AVOID THE LINKSYS SOFTWARE and use regular Windows application to connect/setup. This is my experience: I followed the indications to install the software first, but this resulted several minutes and then hours of waiting the software to setup and install, at the end the Linksys software hitted very hard on my PC resoucers and performance and I found that I have to connect to the router MANUALLY EVERYTIME, even after hibernation or stand-by. Tired of trying to find a fix or workaround I uninstalled the linksys software and decided to used the well known Windows wireless services to manage the connection but I found that the “Windows Zero Connect” service was not available, will not start automatically and have to start it manually EVERYTIME, then go the wireless advanced setup to allow Windows to manage the wireless services… a complete nightmare because I did not find a way fix this, in some forums people told my to reinstall Windows from scratch!. Thankfully I MADE A RESTORE POINT before the installation and when I finally realized that I was on a dead end I used this lifesaver. Luckly the restore point fixed the issue and the Windows wireless services worked as silk as before, connected to the router using the regular Windows application and setup the router with IExplorer using the fixed address. I am very happy with the router performance, amazing kit, but the software gave me a really bad time. NEVER FORGET TO MAKE A RESTORE POINT BEFORE INSTALLING ANY SOFTWARE to your PC.
Once we installed the box, WOW it improved the picture quality of our normal tv never mind the hd chanels. Well worth the money. And now we dont have to miss a programme. The remote is large but so easy to use.
Probably my mistake but I purchased this then found out I can not use it to connect via my phone line to Tiscali.
This modem is for cable connections. Does not support PPPoa protocol used by Tiscali
Ordered this router early this morning and got it this evening (cheers Amazon, but could you reduce the £15 same day delivery charge?!?). As with other routers used in the past, this was really easy to install. Took about 3 minutes. What I will suggest to newbies is not to get carried away setting up passwords etc initially or securing the network. Seriously, who is interested in some boring home network? Mind you, if you work from home for the MI5…
The above suggestion is based on the comments on here regarding key/password problems. Get set up first then start configuring/securing later when you’ve read through the user guide. All I did during setup was set a network name and a router password.
The router itself is really sleek with 4 ports at the rear for wired devices enabling me to connect a wired Mac, a wired Windows desktop and 2 wireless laptops to a virgin media modem. For those wondering about range – I live in a big 3-storey detached house with the router on the first floor. The devices are located all around the house with a wireless laptop on the far corner on the second floor. Signal appears excellent in every room even at the end of the garden and no dropped connection yet.
Fab value for money but early days yet.
Out of the box, set up in 2 minutes, completely straight forward and it did a lot of it itself simply asking me to set passwords and network names. 10 minutes later, 2 PC’s, a Wii and an XBox 360 were all connected wirelessly. The signal range covers a semi-detatched more than adequately.