Customer Reviews

Linksys WRT54G Wireless-G 802.11g Broadband Router

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It's a great router with easy to use configuration. This is my third one and I have no complaints. Linksys is by far the best home router you can get.

This product does all that the Manufacturer claims. I am no network Guru but was able to have my home WiFi set up in less than an hour and working well. The documentation and the set up CD are clear and logical with no ambiguity.

Before buying this router, I had a Netgear router and it was the worst. The Linksys is such an improvement. It was super easy to setup. It is so stable, it has not crashed even once. We have three people who use it, both for wired, and wireless connections. The uses range from, the Kindle to multipliable Netflix streams. I have had as many as 4 wireless devices, and two wired connections active, and going full blast, at one time, with nary a hiccup. The Wireless range is a huge improvement over the Netgear, I can walk almost to the end of the block, and still keep my connection, on my cell phone. Even something as little as the time it takes to establish a wireless connection is much improved, it went from minutes, to seconds. This is the router, that I should have gotten the first time around.

I bought a few of these years ago, put DD-WRT on them and barely even notice that they're there. They just work. DD-WRT gives you complete freedom to do whatever you like with these devices (and it's not illegal). I have 1 that is setup as a router, and 2 that work as bridges. Sure the speed is a bit dated now, but it's still good enough to stream video at a quality to my HDTV that I don't notice it's not HD. Works perfectly to network all of your TV stuff via a bridge. I have my xbox, tv, blueray, all connected to the bridge. Definitely one of the best products I've ever purchased.

I bought this in Feb 2007 for $70 and it broke after 9 months. They replaced it under warrenty. In May 2010 I replaced my PC with a new PC with Win 7 OS. Their original CD that I kept would not work in the new PC. When I called them for help they told me that since the warrenty was over they would not help me operate it on a new Win 7 PC .. UNLESS I paid $40 for 6 months of telephone help. I borrowed my son's 5 year old Netgear router and it worked immediately, was easier to install and easily get all the necessary data for adding other laptops, etc. Plus the Netgear costs $35 here on Amazon which is half Linksys cost and less than their phone support. Additionally Netgear's relibility appears to be much greater than LinkS.

The on line setup was ,so slow that I could not get to the security pages. I sent it back for a refund. I replaced it with a Belkin N wireless router, which was up and running in no time at all.