Linksys Dual Band Wireless N USB Network Adapter, WUSB600N

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The Ultra RangePlus Dual-Band Wireless-N USB Network Adapter is the simple way to add or upgrade wireless connectivity in your desktop or notebook computer. Just plug it into your computers USB port and enjoy incredible high-speed wireless network access.

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Reviewed on 2008-07-20 Very easy to install & works great. This product is easy to install, easy to use, and it works. What more could you ask for?

Reviewed on 2008-07-15 Great Speed but not bargain price I just bought this product. The transfer speed is great and work very well with both of my linksys and netgear wireless router. Top transfer speed was believe to be at the rate of 270 which is very close to the 300 promised by Linksys. The item is not as affordable as many other N wireless adapter.

Reviewed on 2008-06-24 Very good performance with occasional quirks I bought two of these; one for my MCE 2005 machine and another for my kid's Vista Basic. Installation went smoothly for both machines but it was easier on Vista. The Media Center 2005 (MCE, basically Windows XP Pro with SP3) experience has been mixed. For the most part the device works well, but it doesn't seem to like using XP's zero config service to run the adapter. My personal preference is to let Windows manage the wireless adapter so I don't have one more useless craplet installed in my Startup folder. Most of the time, (80%) Windows detects the adapter properly on start up and everything is fine. Occasionally, though, it doesn't and I have to manually start the Linksys config utility to force a connect to my network. (I'm using the "matching" dual band Linksys router with WPA2) It's not a huge deal, but it is an annoyance. Performance-wise, both my systems are reporting 270Mb/s and I can definitely feel the difference between this and my old 11g network. I spend a lot of time in first person shooters and the experience has been the same as when I was physically connected to my gigabit ethernet. The Vista machine is experiencing an interesting problem with stuttering during video streaming (via VideoLAN/VLC) that I wouldn't expect on 11n and that I don't see on my laptop running 11g on the same router. I have not had time to troubleshoot this yet, so I don't know the root cause of the problem. Some other reviews have noted that the 5 Ghz band signal strength seems to fall off quickly. To some extent this is to be expected; 5 Ghz is going to attenuate (lose strength due to walls and other interference) much more quickly than the 2.4 Ghz of b/g. However, I'm surprised by the signal strength drop between my two PC's. They're only separated by a single wall and perhaps 2 ft. Yet I get 5 bars on my MCE machine (same room as the router) and on the Vista machine I'm only getting 3 (just on the other side of the wall). I cannot prove it but, based on this problem and video stuttering on the Vista machine, I suspect that the Vista drivers may not be fully baked yet.

Reviewed on 2008-06-18 Tech Support told me to return it and get a different type !! I bought this adapter for my daughter's desktop PC in the hopes of obtaining a decent range. I had an old wireless "B" PCI adapter from Netgear for years, and signal was always very marginal on this PC. I also bought a Linksys WRT600N router to upgrade my whole wireless system too. The idea of dual band 2.4/5Ghz seemed attractive enough. Also, I thought that by buying from the same manufacturer I should have very few issues. I have four PCs at home 3 x wireless "G" (XP SP3 + Vista SP1 + MAC)+ 1 x wireless "B" (XP SP3), so this USB Wireless "N" computer would have been the only one capable of all the extra features and range. The installation of the USB adapter software went fine and it connected almost right away. So I thought I was done. Almost immediately my daughter started complaining of lost connection issues. I blamed it on her finagling with the wireless software, but it turned out that she was right. The system would take a long time to connect after booting up the PC, then would disconnect after 2 or 3 minutes, and would connect again may be 30 min later. I could not manually force a connection (even though Linksys software advisor would say that I was connected to the router). To summarize, I called tech support today and was pleasantly surprised to speak to a human after no more than 2 minutes. But after 50 min on the phone, and several holds while he was in turn asking questions to somebody else, he came back saying that I'd be better off returning the USB adapter and getting a Linksys WMP300N which he swore is a dual radio band (even though I read somewhere that it works at 2.4 GHz only). Too bad I bought this online, but it was from Amazon, so I am returning it today.

Reviewed on 2008-05-31 works like a charm where G version wouldn't work at all I have tried numerous adapters without success. This wireless n adapter with the matching wireless n router works like a charm.

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