IOGear Wireless-G High Speed USB 2.0 Adapter GWU523 by IOGEAR
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Digital camera reviews of IOGear Wireless-G High Speed USB 2.0 Adapter GWU523
Digital camera Review: Works great!
Summary: 5 Stars
The IOGEAR Wi-Fi 54g USB Adapter did everything it was advertised to do. It installed quickly and easily on my HP desktop, and it performed very well in a different room from the router. Browsing speed/page loading was fine. I'm very satisfied with the purchase.Digital camera Review: Good product, spotty customer service
Summary: 3 Stars
Product 5 star - bad tech support drops the rating to a 3 star. Maybe a two star drop is rough since I'm now running but...
First the product - I found software install very easy with strong signal strength picked up from my Linksys router downstairs. My problem - WEP key encryption. I didn't know where to enter my WEP key code on the wireless LAN config tool. Hence I couldn't p/u the web even though I had a strong signal.
I couldn't find anything in the install directions. I sent email to Iogear CS with no reply. Phone CS is only Mon-Fri normal business hours. Plus, when I finally was able to call during the week from home, I was on hold for quite some time. But the CS rep who answered was helpful and I was up and running after about 1 minute of tech support.
So, here is where you enter your WEP key as I cannot believe I'm the only one with this problem.
1) Open the LAN config tool window.
2) Click more settings.
3) Click change and set encryption to WEP.
4) Then click WEP encryption key setting.
5) Click change set default key to #1,
6) Enter your WEP key value in #1 field.
I was logged on immediately. I hope this helps!!
Digital camera Review: It works!
Summary: 4 Stars
This adapter is pretty small like a regular thumb/jump/flash-drive. Roughly 2 1/4" x 1" x 1/4" including the usb end. It is currently working with my belkin wireless router and is really covenient considering I didn't want to open my cpu and install any hardware. The software could have been better though, it looks almost user-unfriendly, but it really have all the basic necessities used to configure the adapter. A newbie may be turned off by the software but as long as you can read, and know what to configure, you should be OK! No problems so far!Digital camera Review: Horrible Software, Doesn't install
Summary: 2 Stars
The Iogear does not install properly - I tried installing this on three different computers, and it wouldn't instal AT ALL on two of them. On the third computer is works, but only with minimal usage. It makes the computer slow down drastically and even freeze. The software itself also isn't very good, but I do recognize that the software on these are generally poor, so this doesn't only hold for Iogear. Regardless, this product was a waste of time and doesn't work well at all. Digital camera Review: Would be great accept...
Summary: 4 Stars
This product worked excellent practically right out of the box. It came with the software CD wich installed in under a minute along with the drivers for the USB Adapter. It worked wonderfully and was quite fast despite running it through a USB 1.1 slot. My only complaint and the reason for the loss of a star is the fact that its quite fragile. Somehow it ended up on the floor of my room one night and i woke up in the dark to get a drink, i felt a crunch as i walked across the floor. Sure enough in the morning when i checked it had cracked in half. It was a great deal though and i suggest it to anyone who can be more careful than i was. I prefer the adapter i'm currently using. for about the same price i got a netgear pci card adapter for the back of my desktop. That way it cant be broken as easily. All around great product. :)