Linksys Wireless-G Broadband Router with 2 Phone Ports WRTP54G – Wireless router + 4-port switch – VoIP phone adapter – Ethernet, Fast Ethernet, 802.11b, 802.11g – external

2 Review to this product

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  S. Schwartz
  November 25th, 2010 on 11:48 pm

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  I bought this device in November, 2005 and it has worked flawlessly since. The only problem I have had, except for lousy customer service from my cable provider, is the power supply wore out, in August 2010, and I had to get a new one. It is external and took about 5 seconds to swap.

  I have it set up to be a wireless access point, hidden SSID, mac address filtering, WPA2, AES. All of this took about 5 minutes. I have never had a problem with the settings getting lost and it always works. I connect to it with 2 iPhones, a MAC laptop and three PC laptops. It takes a minute to add the new mac addresses, but after that no problem. I have access in every room in my house.

  I also have 2 hard wired computers using the switch and I use VOIP. I have used VOIP for 5 years and have been without phone service for about a week in that time. It had nothing to do with my devices, by cable provider was out in the whole neighborhood, but it wasn’t a system outage, according to them.

  Downloads work fine, printing works fine through it. Speed is fine.

  I can’t think of a better device to have.
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  J. Behar
  November 26th, 2010 on 3:26 am

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  I had to post this review when I read the other 2 bad reviews. This device seemed shoddy as well, i.e. I had to reboot it sometimes several times a day to get it to work, until I realized that it wasn’t the device’s fault at all. It was the lousy recycled cable modem that the Time Warner provided me. I confirmed this with a few tech support calls and Time Warner replaced the modem (they’re fault so I didn’t have to pay extra for the service call.) After that my Linksys WRTP54G router has been 100% perfect. In fact, it does static IP w/ Port forwarding (unlike the D-Link) which is essential for the fastest peer-to-peer downloads if you like downloading from multiple computers wirelessly. And who cares if the router has firewall or not. Your PC already has one that works fine. I highly recommend this Linksys WRTP54G.