Great Product Once It's Working... I didn't read all of the reviews so some of this information is probably repeated. Although some people have not had any problems, I feel I should walk through a good method for setting up this device with most security features, i.e. WEP, disabled SSID broadcast, and MAC filtering. I also use DHCP, so I will talk about this as well.
1) Log in to the web utility and perform all of the following manually (don't use the setup disk). If you are unable to log in to the web utility, t...
[Linksys WGA54G Wireless-G Game Adapter - Wireless Network Converter review by Jared Dove "Rico" can be read at Amazon.com] | | Amazon.com Rating: 8.0  |
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| Reviewed by: | Jared Dove "Rico" | | Review Date: | 03/17/2005 | | User Location: | ABQ, NM | | Review From: | User Review |  |  |
100% (13 of 13) Users Found This Review Helpful |
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IF you can get it configed, works great!!! Ok, several other people have left reviews here on troubles configuring this device and I ran into the same. After hours and hours of searching the web, I found a tip here and a tip there and eventually got it configured. Hopefully this will help someone who is having some trouble configuring this device.
First I have the WGA54G v2, however, I believe these should help anyone who has v1 or the AG devices.
1) Plug the adapter into your CPUs ethernet port with the RJ45 cable...
[Linksys WGA54G Wireless-G Game Adapter - Wireless Network Converter review can be read at Amazon.com] | | Amazon.com Rating: 6.0 |
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| Reviewed by: | | | Review Date: | 04/04/2006 | | User Location: | | | Review From: | User Review | | | |
100% (11 of 11) Users Found This Review Helpful |
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Not 100 percent Xbox 360 compatible I bought this because I have a house full of Linksys equipment and I figured this would make installation and setup a breeze. My wireless router is the WRT54GX2, with 4 wired ports to go with the wireless. The setup and install of the game adapter was no problem, even with WPA encryption.
To make a long story short(er), both my Xbox and Xbox 360 worked great with Xbox Live ... and then I could not get Xbox live on the Xbox 360 to work with Xbox games. Xbox live kept insisting that ...
[Linksys WGA54G Wireless-G Game Adapter - Wireless Network Converter review can be read at Amazon.com] | | Amazon.com Rating: 4.0 |
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| Reviewed by: | | | Review Date: | 04/10/2006 | | User Location: | | | Review From: | User Review | | | |
100% (10 of 10) Users Found This Review Helpful |
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Hardware works, software stinks This took me about 2 hours to set up, after about 20 attempts. The hardware works fine, but both the setup utility and the operating manual are poor and only handle connecting to simple networks. I have a non-standard (read: I didn't let Microsoft set up my network automatically) network and a Linksys Wireless G router, with 128 bit WEP (encryption) as well as MAC filtering set on. (My neighbor across the street also has a wireless network, which I didn't know until I started fooling around with...
[Linksys WGA54G Wireless-G Game Adapter - Wireless Network Converter review can be read at Amazon.com] | | Amazon.com Rating: 6.0 |
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| Reviewed by: | | | Review Date: | 08/28/2004 | | User Location: | | | Review From: | User Review | | | |
92% (127 of 138) Users Found This Review Helpful |
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So, where's the problem? This is a great product! After reading all the horror stories about this product left by other reviewers, I was hesitant to purchase it, even though it seemed on face to be the simplest way to get my ReplayTV on to my existing home network.
After taking a leap of faith based on past experience with Linksys products, I'm glad I did. Setup could not have been simpler. Using my laptop to configure it, I had the adapter running and connected to my Replay in less than 10 minutes. Though my updates run a tiny bi...
[Linksys WGA54G Wireless-G Game Adapter - Wireless Network Converter review can be read at Amazon.com] | | Amazon.com Rating: 10.0 |
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| Reviewed by: | | | Review Date: | 01/05/2005 | | User Location: | | | Review From: | User Review | | | |
74% (23 of 31) Users Found This Review Helpful |
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Worthless, save money and headaches... I purchased one of these several months ago, along with a Linksys wireless-G broadband router so that my son can play his X-Box online from his room. First of all, set up using the included instructions and CD was virtually impossible. I had to call their helpline, where I was on with an overseas tech who bare spoke English. However, I managed to struggle through the setup, and everything was working fine.
A few weeks later, however, the gaming adapter just stopped working. After seve...
[Linksys WGA54G Wireless-G Game Adapter - Wireless Network Converter review can be read at Amazon.com] | | Amazon.com Rating: 2.0 |
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| Reviewed by: | | | Review Date: | 11/09/2005 | | User Location: | | | Review From: | User Review | | | |
60% (6 of 10) Users Found This Review Helpful |
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If you enjoy frustration, go right ahead and get this one
[Linksys WGA54G Wireless-G Game Adapter - Wireless Network Converter review can be read at Amazon.com] | | Amazon.com Rating: 2.0 |
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| Reviewed by: | | | Review Date: | 12/28/2003 | | User Location: | | | Review From: | User Review | | | |
58% (7 of 12) Users Found This Review Helpful |
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Buy it for playing online games, not for the ease of setup I should first point out that I recommend Linksys products to other people.I bought the WRT54G and WGA54G at the same time, in order to use them together. Setting up and configuring the router was easy, as I had a BEFSX41, until getting the wireless router. According to Linksys, the only difference between the two (other than the obvious wireless LAN) is that you cannot turn off the firewall in the WRT54G. (There seems to be a firewall enable/disable on the web based utility, so I'm not su...
[Linksys WGA54G Wireless-G Game Adapter - Wireless Network Converter review can be read at Amazon.com] | | Amazon.com Rating: 8.0 |
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| Reviewed by: | | | Review Date: | 01/20/2004 | | User Location: | | | Review From: | User Review | | | |
56% (9 of 16) Users Found This Review Helpful |
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Very easy to set up, if you can R E A D This product has received far too many negative reviews claiming that it's difficult to set up. In truth, you should only have a problem setting this up if you are A) Illiterate, or b) Incompetent. It comes with a handy setup guide (which fits onto a single 8x11 sheet of paper) and a setup CD. Just plug the adapter into your router, run the setup CD, and then plug the adapter into your console. 5 minutes later and my XBox is running at full speed, 128 bit security, strong signal, no drops, n...
[Linksys WGA54G Wireless-G Game Adapter - Wireless Network Converter review by Craig Jacobson can be read at Amazon.com] | | Amazon.com Rating: 10.0 |
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| Reviewed by: | Craig Jacobson | | Review Date: | 11/07/2004 | | User Location: | Chicago, IL USA | | Review From: | User Review | | | |
52% (11 of 21) Users Found This Review Helpful |
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Don't even bother with this adapter
[Linksys WGA54G Wireless-G Game Adapter - Wireless Network Converter review can be read at Amazon.com] | | Amazon.com Rating: 2.0 |
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| Reviewed by: | | | Review Date: | 09/14/2003 | | User Location: | | | Review From: | User Review | | | |
45% (5 of 11) Users Found This Review Helpful |