Wireless G Access Point with Srx (speed and Range Expansion)

List Price: $305.41

Features:

• Provides network access to Wireless-G (802.11g), Wireless-B (802.11b), and SRX devices
• New SRX technology - the farther away, the more advantage -- up to 8 times faster than standard Wireless-G (802.11g)
• SRX also increases wireless range by up to 3 times and reduces dead spots in the coverage area

Customer Reviews:

Never had a problem. [Posted on 2006-02-28]
Got the WAP54GX out of the box, hooked it up to my RV082, uploaded the latest firmware (ver. 1.16), manually configured it and was off and running. Works flawlessly. Up now for two months without any issues.

Also have two WRV54Gs at remote sites. Lots of people have had problems with these, but works perfectly for us with updated firmware (ver. 2.37). Have to admit the WRV54G was crap till the firmware update.

Could ver. 1.15 firmware be the issue with the WAP54GX?

Ditto what most have said -- don't buy this [Posted on 2006-05-23]
I can't tell you what you might want to buy, but it shouldn't be this unit. I've been unable to depend on it since the day I got it. I'm quite technical, having managed tech support geeks for several years, but this contraption has tried my patience. It worked sporadically for a few weeks, sometimes had good signal strength, but mostly a weak one. Well, okay, the PC that used wireless was in another building in our house, so I was willing to give it the benefit of my doubt. Then I brought the PC into the same room as the WAP and tried to tweak and fiddle with the settings on both WAP and PC, hoping to zip up the speed and make the connection more reliable. I couldn't even get connected at that point. Updated the firmware to the latest. Reset everything to factory defaults, then painstakingly entered the WPA2 key and the SSID, plus the admin password, and all the other things like allowed MAC addresses, etc. Okay, so now I can SEE the network on my PC but I can't connect. Then after a few more connection tries, I couldn't even see the network, nothing, nada, no dice. So I've gone downhill, from a sporadic and usually slow connection in another building ... to not even seeing the wireless network while I'm literally sitting next to the WAP. That's it, I give up. I've wasted at least 50 hours on this device, it's definitely not worth the money.

I bought this because I already own an industrial-strength firewall/router and didn't need another router. Maybe that's where I went wrong, don't you do the same thing! Stay away from this money and time waster.

DO NOT BUY THIS ITEM !!!!!!! [Posted on 2006-08-17]
Newsgroups are full of HORROR stories about this piece of junk. Cisco (Linksys) should be ashamed of themselves for continuing to ship these. Many of them don't work right out of the box, and the rest will soon fail. I think I'll stop buying Cisco products as well, hmmmm.

LanceLink, MCSE, MCT, CCA, CCNA

Avoid this access point [Posted on 2006-09-25]
I bought this to support just 3 users in a section of a small branch office that was too cumbersome to hardwire. Unless you want to blow your credibility as a network admin, don't put this device in your network.

It continually drops connections. I have the users trained to unplug this thing when it decides to quit working which has been at least twice a week, but now it's every day, sometimes twice. How embarrassing is that to have your users have to unplug one of you devices because Linksys didn't even have the commonsense to let you reboot it from the web interface??

I've only kept this thing around because I've been waiting for a firmware upgrade. (Current version is 1 year old at the time of writing) Can't wait any longer, I'm about to lose my job. Worst network component ever.

Wireless G Access Point review [Posted on 2007-01-13]
The wireless access allows me to work downstairs in comfort. Our office is over the garage and in the winter it is colder than the rest of the house. With the wireless, I can sit in front of the fire and do my work.
I LOVE THIS THING!!!

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