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If you have Vista I would get the newer model that is Vista compatible. It is still working great. First thing to do is update this adapter if you want it to work with Vista. It was a little complicated to explain to someone who has never done this before.We did get it working. The extension cable to set the antenna up high came in handy. Linksys has instructions on their website. If you have XP it should work out of the box.I was helping someone install this on a Vista machine over the phone.
Luck enough I actually spotted the latter note prior to installing the CD based driver. further down in the provided literature and manuals is a note stating VISTA users should not use the CD but download drivers from Linksys. - Not the brightest of moves by Linksys/Cisco. PRO's:This is the 2nd Linksys WUSB54G I have bought as I have found them simple to install (see exception below), reliable and they provide great throughput / speed. Others may not be so lucky. Never dropped my WiFi connection (unlike others I have owned) and speed always seems to stay at 54Mbps even when 100ft and 2 floors away from my WiFi base station.CON's:Not a biggie, but worth a mention. I use one on an XP machine and the other on a Vista machine, both worth impeccably. Instructions placed on top of everything else in the box state to insert the CD and install the drivers before doing anything else.
It's easy to install, and doesn't seem to drop the connection (unless of course it's the router that's having a problem).The only issue I've ever had with it. I've had this adapter for about 6 years now, and it's never given me any problems. You can't use a hub with it, it just doesn't work for some reason (though using the adapter cord is fine as long as the cord is plugged into the computer). It has to be plugged directly into the computer itself. I've used it on 2 different desktop computers, and with 8 different wireless routers, in houses and apartments both. The routers were of all different brands, but only 1 of them was a Linksys as well.
Downloads and file transfers are also quick. This is hooked up to my TV PC so I watch Netflix movies over the internet and the connection keeps up no problem at the highest quality available. For the price you can't go wrong here. This little guy set up easy and connects solid. It is obviously a little bit incovenient to have an external receiver with another usb wire but it's not bad on a desktop if you have room.
It took me two weeks to get this thing working, and then when I almost had the driver installed, the computer crashed. I originally had the WUSB54Gv4 Linksys adapter on an XP desktop, which worked okay. You can probably find a better product for the same price, just keep looking.Footnote: While trying to find drivers, I stumbled into several other owners with similar problems, and one posted a letter from Linksys in response to an inquiry about Linux support, and Linksys replied that this product was intended for Windows, no Linux or Mac. Never had any problems with Ubuntu on my laptop, but this was a headache. Though there was a wall in the way, I wasn't very impressed that it only got a 30% signal from a router 8-9ft away. Then I got sick of windows and installed Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron.
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