SignalMax Wireless 4 Port DSL/Cable Router

Average customer rating: 4.5

Stunning but .............................
Revolutionary!
Might improve your home connection, but don't expect to roam
A networking product that truly delivers expanded range!
works as advertised

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SignalMax Wireless 4 Port DSL/Cable Router

Manufacturer: Parker Vision
Product Group: CE
Binding: Electronics
ASIN: B00062L3E4

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Product Description

ONE MILE OPEN-FIELD LINE OF SIGHT PERFORMANCE GUARANTEED TO COVE

Customer Reviews:

Stunning but ....................................2005-07-10

I have owned half a dozen wireless routers and access points. In my 3500 square foot 25 year old ranch home none gave 100% coverage. I had some such as a DLink that came close to 100% coverage but none that really kept a solid connection. Tried the ParkerVision and it is pretty stunning. No dead spots, no dropping of the signal, nice steady signal. The bad side is that they are exiting the consumer market. I am using it with a Dell Inspiron 9100 with a built in wireless 1450 card. Shame that the company did not continue on.

Revolutionary!.......2005-06-25

I do not know why this product is advertised more! This Router is the cure for wireless blues!! It is simply amazing, I am getting reception in my basement and in my neibors yard. (I live in a medium NYC suburb house). The best wireless product I have purchased. Whether it is B or G, it gets it at a constant, stable and reliable speed. I am going to purchase another and donate it to my school so I and my teachers can get wireless.

If there is a downside, The router is large..it is slightly larger than those typical desk alarm/radio clocks. It is rather light.

Durability is great (I believe I had it for at least 3 mounths) Iiit is durrable since Iam never fideling with the antenas like my other router therefore there is less ware and tare.

Might improve your home connection, but don't expect to roam.......2005-06-07

This router is advertised to have a 1 mile open field range when used with their LAN cards. I bought both items, the router and the usb lan card and decided to test it out. I work 2 blocks away from where I live so I thought it might reach that far at least (Maybe a quarter of a mile).

I configured the router rather easily and placed it next to the window that is in the corner closest to my workplace. I installed the USB lan adapter on my laptop and configured it rather easily as well. Next, I got in my car and placed the adapter below the windshield and put the laptop in the seat next to me to watch the range meter tell me how much signal I had.

Results:

In my car, directly outside the window where I could see the router, maybe 25 feet away, I received 90% signal. I started driving forward and watched the signal plummet. By the time I got 200 feet away, the signal was barely there. I didn't even make it to the first stop sign before I lost signal. I also tried the range from the opposite side of my appartment which puts about 3 walls between the router and the outside...The range was about 150 feet at the most.

While this router might be good for expanding coverage over your residence, do not expect it to give you anything near the 1 mile range unless you truly live in a rural area with line of sight between you and the router. It seems that the window and trees were enough to drop the range from 1 mile to 200-300 feet in my experience.

I returned the router and usb adapter to Compusa and am staying with my Linksys WRT54GS for now. We'll have to wait for MIMO, Wireless-N and WiMax before we can truly be wirelessly connected at broadband speeds.

A networking product that truly delivers expanded range!.......2005-05-30

In the last few weeks I have purchased and returned the Netgear PreN router/card and the DLink SuperG with MIMO router/card combos because they didn't eliminate the wireless dead spots inside my 2-story 3000 sq.ft. home. In fact, I got zero signal strength in many of the rooms on the first floor of my home with these products (the router is in a front corner bedroom upstairs). To be blunt, these products didn't increase my reception range at all.

However, with the ParkerVision SIGNALMAX WR1500 router in the upstairs bedroom and a WLAN1500 PC card adapter in my Compaq laptop, I get coverage EVERYWHERE inside my home AND my entire backyard AND up to one block from the from my home. I primarily wanted increased range at cable broadband internet speeds, and that is exactly what the SIGNALMAX products delivered. Using the local Houston RoadRunner broadband internet speed test utility, I get between 3300-3600 kbps download speed throughout the house and when sitting in the backyard patio. The other products mentioned got zero signal in many of these rooms. So, I am very happy. No, these transfer speeds are not as fast as can be had over short distances with 802.11g network products. And ParkerVision does not go out of its way to clearly inform buyers that this is a long-range 802.11b network solution. But, if you are looking for wireless network speed equivalent to fast broadband cable internet speeds throughout your home - then this is the product for you. I should also mention that I have 128-bit WEP security activated, which may slow things down a bit. But with this transmission range, you had better institute security protocols, unless, of course, you want to share your broadband bandwidth with your nearest neighbors.

One important note: the default router communication channel is Channel 6, which, apparently, is the same frequency used by 2.4 GHz cordless phones. This is dumb -- the default should be anything but Channel 6. This prevented me from being able to connect to the router from the laptop even though indicated signal strength was excellent. Fortunately, I made a quick phone call to a very helpful service tech (Rachel) at ParkerVision (at 9 a.m. on a Sunday morning with no waiting!), who instructed me to switch to Channel 1. As soon as I changed the channel setting on the router, the laptop connected and I was getting 85-100% signal strength throughout the house. In the farthest corner of backyard, signal strength drops off rapidly and I only manage 250 kbps download. (Remember, the router is in a front, upstairs bedroom.) However, I can walk a block from the front of my house, and get 2000 kbps so long as no other house comes between the laptop and my home.

So far, I can highly recommend this product. I cannot yet comment regarding the long-term reliability of this equipment.

works as advertised.......2005-03-11

my experiences pretty much mirror everyone elses. I had started with linksys and all the repeaters & booster antennaes seemed to be like late night ads for exercise machines - promise much and deliver little. This unit setup very easily - i was fine with b speed. I did buy a parkervision adapter card Which oddly enough seems to get worse reception than if i swap it with a linksys card - same pc same distance. go figure. worth it on price

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