Linksys Wireless-G Broadband Router with SRX200 (WRT54GX2)

Average customer rating: 3.0

Great product
Device not worth the investment....
Take 2 seems to work OK
Linksys SRX200
Defective WRT54GX2 routers!

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Linksys Wireless-G Broadband Router with SRX200 (WRT54GX2)

Manufacturer: Linksys
Product Group: CE
Binding: Electronics
ASIN: B000AXU76E

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Product Description

With the Linksys Wireless-G Broadband Router with SRX200 at the center of your home or office network, you can share a high-speed Internet connection, files, printers, and multi-player games with flexibility, speed, and security!

The Wireless-G Broadband Router with SRX200 is really three devices in one box. First, there's the Wireless Access Point, which lets you connect Wireless-G, Wireless-B, and other performance-enhanced SRX devices to the network. There's also a built-in 4-port full-duplex 10/100 Switch to connect your wired-Ethernet devices together. Finally, the Router function ties it all together and lets your whole network share a high-speed cable or DSL Internet connection. By overlaying the signals of two Wireless-G compatible radios, the "Multiple In, Multiple Out" (MIMO) technology effectively doubles the data rate. Unlike ordinary wireless networking technologies that are confused by signal reflections, MIMO actually uses these reflections to increase the range and reduce "dead spots" in the wireless coverage area. The robust signal travels farther, maintaining wireless connections up to twice as far as standard Wireless-G. And the farther away you are, the more advantage you get -- the higher data rate and reflection-friendly technology can yield up to 6 times more throughput than Wireless-G in some situations.

Customer Reviews:

Great product.......2007-03-11

Although it comes with an installation CD it is simpler to use the online tools provided by Linksys. It has a great signal and is very easy to use. Definitely would recommend this product.

Device not worth the investment...........2007-03-06

I did own this router for almost 5 months, Linksys WRT54GX2 v1. In the past, I did owned those routers for at least 6 months, Linksys BEFW11S4 v2 (4 stars), Netgear MR814 v2 (4 stars), D-Link 524 revC (3 stars), Linksys WRT54G v6 (5 stars).

I've bought this router for couple reasons. I wanted to have a router with QoS feature and gives a good signal. It turned to be very disappointing (at least for Linksys WRT54GX2 v1), it never delivered a good connection speed. My wireless client 802.11g speed was around 32Mbps sometimes and I was only a wall away and 10 ft. from the router, not mentioning some dead spots. It felt as if you were connected through a dial up. I have changed "Advanced Wireless Settings", flashed to the latest firmware 1.01.18, changed to different channel but it did not solve the problem. The device will lockup after 5 or 6 hours of activity but not every time. The WAP feature used to reject any client after "Group Key Renewal" expired but it was fixed with firmware 1.01.18.

I've contacted Linksys customer support and they told me the router was faulty. I am very suspicious because a lot of people had the same issue. I am not sure if it has something related with Linksys WRT54GX2 v1 (there is a v2).

I haven't tried with SRX wireless client device but regardless the case, I think it should work with standard 802.11g client. Do not buy this device, not worth the investment. I've bought Linksys WRT54G v6 and it works much better than this one. I think it's a device where Linksys needs to work a lot before it becomes stable and usable.

Take 2 seems to work OK.......2007-03-05

I bought the original version of this router. It always had some problems with the wireless connections (dropped connections, wouldn't work at all with WPA, etc.) It had the latest firmware, and I spent quite some time trying to troubleshoot the problems.

I recently exchanged it for a new unit. The new one was slightly different (same part number, but the status LEDs are now on the front (skinny side) of the unit).

The new one seems to work well, but it's only been one day.
We will just have to see how it is in the long haul.

Linksys SRX200.......2007-02-13

This is my second Linksys product and so far, so good. This unit was simple to set up with the cd provided, a few quick steps and voila', wireless secured connection for my lap top. The only glitch was having to reboot the modem and the info on the cd informed me to do that to get a connection with this router. I do not game on line so it appears to be a fast enough connection, and strong enough for the moderate sized home we are in. I have read good and bad reviews on this product. Also have read one might consider another brand for better connection speed. No matter, so far this unit is working fine and for the price at Amazon, no arguments on the value received. I recommend this product.Thanks

Defective WRT54GX2 routers!.......2007-01-26

Although I've had good success with other Linksys products in the past, the first WRT54GX2 I ordered had a dead Ethernet interface and had to be returned. Its replacement would freeze up 1-2 minutes after powering on. Read the other comments and you'll see that my experience was not unique. This is outrageous "quality control," -- beware.

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