Cisco-Linksys WET11 Wireless Ethernet Bridge by Linksys
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Digital camera reviews of Cisco-Linksys WET11 Wireless Ethernet Bridge
Digital camera Review: DO NOT USE WITH XBOX LIVE!!
Summary: 4 Stars
Xbox does not recomend wireless routers for use with Xbox Live. I Called them and that is what they told me.... go to there web site to see witch roters will work.Digital camera Review: Defective out of the box
Summary: 1 Stars
Out of three LinkSys items I ordered (WET11, PC Wireless NIC, and 4-port router/hub), two of the items were defective out of the box. The WET11 has a defective LAN port, and, after reading LinkSys's return policy, I will never buy another item from them again. They expect the consumer to pay for shipping on their defective [items]. Fortunately for us (the consumers), Amazon.com will pay for shipping defective items back to them. Good for Amazon.com, bad for Linksys.Digital camera Review: Didn't work for me
Summary: 1 Stars
I'm technically savvy but I couldn't get it to work with my network. I also brought it in to Best Buy to see if they could get it to work and they couldn't. From reading reviews there is clearly a problem with some of these units just not working.Digital camera Review: Difficult to configure if not using Windows
Summary: 2 Stars
Got this to connect a desktop Macintosh to a wireless network. I had problems almost immediately:1) Setup via CDROM was OK, but once configured it would not recognize the router. Of note, this requires a Windows machine to work.
2) Unable to upgrade the firmware via the utility downloaded from the Linksys website until I discovered that the computer had to be set to static.
3) Using a web interface was impossible; none of the changes I made were saved to the WET11.
Bottom line: If you want to use this for a single configuration without ever changing it, then it is OK. If you want to use this where you might want to occasionally change the configuration (i.e. change to peer-to-peer, change WEP, change base stations), then the difficulties in changing configuration make this too much of a hassle to get.
Digital camera Review: Does not work with Appletalk
Summary: 2 Stars
So Linksys claims this product works without drivers on Macintosh systems ("anything with an Ethernet port"). However, it does *not* handle AFP (Apple's file-sharing protocol) at all. If you are attempting to connect a Mac to a network file-share using AFP (common to versions of MacOS earlier than X), you will fail. This includes other pre-OSX Macs, as well as Microsoft UAM volumes.Otherwise this product works as advertised. The Mac could indeed surf the Internet and use network services utilizing standard TCP/IP protocol. However, I feel it is highly irresponsible for Linksys to claim that their product works on Macintosh PCs when 100% compatibility does not exist.