Linksys WRTP54G Wireless-G Broadband Router for Vonage Internet Phone Service

Average customer rating: 2.0

No, thank you
Works Perfectly - Just as Advertised
Not working properly after 1 1/2 year
Run, don't walk away from this device!
Terrible device

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Linksys WRTP54G Wireless-G Broadband Router for Vonage Internet Phone Service

Manufacturer: Linksys
Product Group: CE
Binding: Electronics
ASIN: B0009P657S

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Product Description

Use the Linksys Wireless-G Broadband Router at the center of your home-office network, you can share a high-speed Internet connection, files, printers, and multi-player games, and Internet phone service!

The Linksys Wireless-G Broadband Router is really four devices in one box. First, there's the Wireless Access Point, which lets you connect both screaming fast Wireless-G (802.11g at 54Mbps) and Wireless-B (802.11b at 11Mbps) devices to the network. There's also a built-in 4-port full-duplex 10/100 Switch to connect your wired-Ethernet devices together. Connect four PCs directly, or attach more hubs and switches to create as big a network as you need. The Router function lets your whole network share a high-speed cable or DSL Internet connection. The fourth function is the phone adapter which enables high-quality feature-rich telephone service through your high-speed connection even while you're surfing the Internet. There are two standard telephone jacks, each operating independently -- like having two phone lines. With Vonage Service, you'll get low domestic and international phone rates, Caller ID, Call Waiting, Voicemail, Call Forwarding, Distinctive Ring, and lots of other available special phone features. Choose any free local dialing US area code, regardless of where you live. Add a virtual phone number in any area code, or even a US-wide toll-free number. To protect your data and privacy, the Wireless-G Broadband Router can encode all wireless transmissions with up to 128-bit encryption, and supports both Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) and the industrial-strength wireless security of Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA). The Router can serve as a DHCP Server, has a powerful SPI firewall to protect your PCs against intruders and most known Internet attacks, supports VPN pass-through, and can be configured to filter internal users' access to the Internet. Configuration is a snap with the web browser-based configur

Customer Reviews:

No, thank you.......2007-05-31

May 30, 2007

If you already started the bad Vonage trip, be sure to close out your
debit card BEFORE you attempt to cancel. They are experienced at
getting there before you can. You'll open your account and find those
add-on surprise fees for cancelling their very bad product/service.
PLEASE keep records and file complaints. This is dirty business.

Works Perfectly - Just as Advertised.......2007-05-20

Summary: This product works perfectly as a wireless router with my Dell laptop PC and also works perfectly with the new Vonage phone service that I signed up for. I'm using a Panasonic 5.8 GHz cordless phone plugged into the Linksys. Call quality is great - domestic and overseas.

My only surprise was that I needed to wait several hours after signing up for Vonage before I could routinely make and receive phone calls. I don't know if it was normal or not but now - 12 hours later - all phone features works perfectly. Most importantly, it operates just like any regular phone service - no difference.

I've worked for local telephone service providers my whole life and they FEAR broadband (or VoIP) phone service in a big way - whether it's Vonage or the cable TV version of VoIP. They will do anything to discredit it. The fact of the matter is that I can now speak from first hand experience that this service - along with this particular wireless router - is great.

Not working properly after 1 1/2 year.......2007-03-31

I got this router and vonage service for about a year and a half. For the most part, it worked OK - vonage voice quality and the router, except I have problem with the fax and it didn't work with my security monitoring service. But starting a week ago, the router started to lose packets and connection -- and I have to reboot the router every 2 hours or the phone line will not work. I called Vonage and they said the warranty of the router has expired and I'll have to pay another $50 just to get another router/phone adaptor, or I can bid and get one off eBay. I tried Sunrocket before and the sevice is much worse than Vonage -- frequency of drop, voice quality, customer service. I may consider switching back to the landline with AT&T.

Run, don't walk away from this device!.......2007-01-26

If you use a VPN connection to work from home, don't buy this device. I did thinking it would be nice to upgrade my router, but ended up wasting both time and money trying to make this device work properly. If you have a router that is working just go with the phone adapter. I would hate to total up all the time lost trying to get this to work (and I am IT savy). My stubborness prevented me from crying uncle as early as I should have. So if your considering Vonage or any VoIP service, run don't walk away from this device.

Terrible device.......2007-01-09

Not much to say here. I bought this and for months had a delay when I answered the phone using Vonage. I'd say "Hello? Hello? Hello?" and after 5-10 seconds someone would answer. At first my friend suggested that my phone was bad!

Not only that but when calling out it'd take 3 seconds to hear a dial tone.

I replaced this with the new D-link Vonage Wireless router and the problem was instantly fixed! Too bad I can't return this defective product.

Works fine as just a wireless router though. I've had no problems with using my laptop wirelessly using this device.

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