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 enlarge | Brand: Linksys
Category: CE
List Price: $49.99
Buy New: $31.69
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New (49) Used (7) from $19.99
Rating:  70 reviews
Sales Rank: 738
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Network Interface: Hi-Speed USB
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3
Dimensions (in): 15 x 7.5 x 11.3
Warranty: 3 years limited warranty
MPN: WUSB54GC
Model: WUSB54GC
UPC: 745883568598
EAN: 0745883568598
ASIN: B000CRFI8A
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Shipping: Expedited shipping available
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| Customer Reviews:
 Great product February 4, 2007
18 out of 19 found this review helpful
I recently moved into a new house that has three floors - 2 stories and a basement. I made the decision to go totally wireless with my home network (2 PCs and a laptop). This adapter went on my older PC in the basement and it works perfectly. A no hassle set up means I was up and running 5 minutes after opening the package. I have not experienced any connection problems, slowdowns, etc.
I highly recommend Linksys wireless products for your home networking needs.
 Great hardware, gratuitiously bad software. Avoid if you are non-expert. January 29, 2007
15 out of 16 found this review helpful
First off, the good. The stick gets pretty good reception, IMO.
Next the neither here nor there: if you follow the advice of the sticker and run the install CD, it will replace the standard Windows wi-fi zeroconf with Linksys's own utility. Zeroconf is not really all that great, but it would be decent of them to ask you first. If you are used to doing things the Windows way, you'd probably prefer to keep doing so. The Monitor software is not bad, but it has its own faults. You might prefer it to Windows, but don't expect any help from your resident Windows expert if you have problems with it.
Next the truly bad: the softwarte mucks around with windows settings (e.g. the notorious GTGINA.dll/logon problem) without asking permission, informing you, or giving you a clue as to who is responsible.
It is utterly amazing this thing earned a Windows compatibility sticker given this. When you buy something with the sticker, you should at least be confident you aren't going to be sucker punched by the software installing unasked for and unwanted "improvements".
This is why this software is not just BAD, it is GRATUITOUSLY bad. It's one thing to make software that is dreadful at what you buy it for (which indeed the Linksys drivers are not), it's another to spread dreadfulness around to completely unrelated functions (which the Linksys drivers do). There is no reason at all for Linksys to do this.
YOU might not have a problem right now, but in the future you may end up with mysterious and uninformative error messages which will have you digging through the Windows registry to track down.
For this reason, I strongly recommend that non-experts avoid this device. I understand that the changes this driver installs are intended to make life easier for non-experts. It may even succeed at this for some. But if you run into problems (particularly later), you are going to have to handle your resident Windows support guy getting very cranky. The problems the included software create are not only completely unrelated to the functions this device performs, they persist even if you don't have the device plugged in.
It is incumbent on a vendor, when replacing standard ways of doing things with a way that is supposed to be "better", to achieve 100% success. Otherwise they leave the poor user high and dry with no viable support. Better obvious flaws that everyone knows about than mysterious, untraceable flaws.
For Linux users, the device works flawlessly, but you have to do the following:
(1) compile the RT73 driver source and install the package.
(2) obtain the RT73 firmware deb or RPM (From the same soruce as the driver) and install it.
Once you do this, when you plug the device in the system should recognize it as a wifi network adapter and give it the device name "rausb0". You then use the method normal for your Linux distro to configure it, either iwconfig on the command line, or the KWifi program for KDE users (also Ubuntu Gnome users).
If you have never compiled a kernel module before, have no fear. Just google for "wusb54gc rt73 compile" and you'll find directions. Follow them step by step and you'll have success.
 Good product January 20, 2007
When it arrived it was smaller than i expected and it looked kind of cheap and easily broken. However when i connected it, speed increased by double the amount it was before. Anntenna level went up one bar. USPS gave some issues with shipping there was a period when i thought it was lost. Overall a good product.
 Hardware seems fine, software is terrible. January 11, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This USB adapter appears to do its job OK, although the signal reception is (of course) poor compared to adapters with proper antennas.
The software has one major flaw- a horrendous memory leak that renders the PC unusable after just a few hours. This kind of fault should never have made it out of the Linksys software group, and yet they have done nothing to correct it in the YEAR that this software has been on their website.
I would not buy this product again.
Insallation and Download Disaster December 25, 2006
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
Awful product, awful service. When I tried the install on my PC it froze my computer at the 50% done level. I rebooted and tried to install again....said I had to uninstall, but it couldn't find file and kept hanging up...Called 1-800 India and told I had to download up dated software and install that...(of course without cxn I had to go to other computer in house, write CD which I did) and tried to install update drivers BUT same thing happneed....After three hours tech tells me the cannot fix will try to find registry cleaner...then hangs up on me....I call back and then get 1800 Phillipines who says there is no registry cleaner for this product....four hours now...tech wants me to install it on another computer (where not needed to see if software works)...I say no thanks...after four 1/2 hours I'll return it and never buy Linksys again...may also sell my Cisco stock as the level of customer service I got (poor) is probably indicative of larger problems at that company...do not know what I'm going to do to get rid of the unneeded program segments...
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