Bought this for a remote computer with no hope of having a wired connection without the usual complaints from the wife. Installation was as simple as it could be, which was automatically recognized by operating system (UBUNTU 9.10) to be used with MythTV. No complaints so far. My house is a 2 story structure with a combination of wood and steel stud framing and the distance from the wireless router is about 35ft. and the signal strength is between 90% and 95% out of 100, so having the higher power for transmit and the higher gain antenna for receive help performance quite a bit.