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(340 customer reviews) 111 of 119 people found the following review helpful
Excellent for Converting Wired To Wireless,
April 5, 2009 Book Reviews Weekly - See all my reviews
This review is from: Cisco-Linksys WET610N Dual-Band Wireless-N Gaming and Video Adapter (Personal Computers)
I bought the WET610N for my Samsung BD-P1600 Blu-Ray Player. My options were either wired, which I didn't want to do, or buy a proprietary dongle from Samsung. I chose the option that Samsung did not mention - I bought the WET610N! The unit was easy to setup, and the instructions were clear. I've never been fond of using Linksys CD's to setup this kind of equipment, but I have to say it was painless and quick compared to some others I've seen. The value of this unit is simply that it will work with ANYTHING that wants a "wired" network connection. So, it doesn't matter if it's a video game system, a DVR type device, or as in this case a blu-ray DVD Player. For this reason, the unit is a great value and will be in use for a long time, even when the current equipment I am using it with now is long gone.
61 of 65 people found the following review helpful
Quick setup - up in 10 minutes,
September 9, 2009 E. Linder - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Cisco-Linksys WET610N Dual-Band Wireless-N Gaming and Video Adapter (Personal Computers)
Update 10/31/10:
This product has worked *flawlessly* for a year straight! Highly recommended without reservation!
Update 10/2/09:
New firmware update available from Linksys 8/31/09 (I went from 1.0.01 to 1.0.03 today). After applying new firmware, the reported signal strength increased significantly. So did the consistency and reliability of pings (previously would vary between 2ms and 410 ms as well as skip an occasional ping - now consistently below 5 ms!). I would recommend this product, but be sure to be running firmware 1.0.0.03. This update may address some (but not all) of the issues that previous reviewers experienced.
Original review:
Quick shipment from Amazon. As much as I dread Setup wizards, I used the wizard supplied on the CD-ROM, which I ran from my laptop, which is connected wirelessly via the wireless router. Connected bridge to router with the supplied straight-through Ethernet cable. The wizard quickly...Read more
62 of 74 people found the following review helpful
Works, but forget Linksys customer service,
July 21, 2009 E. Turner - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Cisco-Linksys WET610N Dual-Band Wireless-N Gaming and Video Adapter (Personal Computers)
After I got the unit set up, it works fine for my purposes - connecting my blu-ray player to my wireless home network. The distance is short, less than 30 feet, and just in the next room. The connection will not carry a lot of video smoothly, but it works OK.
But if you are not able to handle a few set-up issues yourself, reconsider. It took me the second try to set up the device through their setup disk. Then it couldn't find my wireless network, which had 2 laptops on it and was running fine. I called technical support. The manufacturer CLAIMS to offer free technical support during the 1-year warranty. But when I called, the very day my unit was delivered, they wouldn't help me unless I bought extended coverage for their router I was using with it. I didn't have any problems with the router, but they wouldn't tell me how to connect my brand new ethernet bridge to the router because the router warranty had expired. Real ripoff. These things HAVE to go through a...Read more
