Linksys Wireless-G Notebook Adapter Linksys ( 28 February, 2003 ) Electronics Our Price : £ 51.60 Prices subject to change. usually dispatched within 24 hours.

Easy to set up and works well

Last night I set up my new Linksys 802.11g wireless router and connected to it via my Linksys Wireless-G Notebook adapter. No real difficult problems with setting up either, in total the whole thing took me less than an hour. The installation guide and software seemed to work well - the only thing that prevented it being totally problem free was that the network card software does not have the ability to work out your network authentication string from the passphrase that you use to generate it on the router. It took a bit of effort to work out how to log back into the admin screens on the router to get the authentication string before I could use the card. Of course, if you dont care about preventing anyone from accessing your network and dont enable WEP then this wont be a problem. But that wouldnt be sensible. It seemed to have a decent range and connected at 54Mbs is most places that I would use it around my flat - all in all well worth getting just to prevent me tripping over cables.

Simplicity itself

I fitted this to my laptop and the associated router to my new NTL broadband modem when my broadband was installed on Saturday. It took all of 5 minutes and I now have wireless broadband which is simply brilliant. The set up of the laptop card was simplicity itself - just plug it in and away you go. You need to connect up the router (I used the Linksys Wireless-G Router - also from Amazon) to the modem first. The longest part of the exercise was reinstalling Norton Internet Security (which you should uninstall before any broadband installations) - but within 5 mins of reinstalling it, it prevented some hacker from Berlin (Norton can tell you where the attack is from) hacking my new system. I am not a techy, just an average user, but this product is brilliant and simplicity itself. Very strongly recommended: 5-star.

Seamless & powerful integration with WinXP

There is really little to say about this little card other than it has workhorse performance and is really easy to set up. I can happily report Ive encountered no such problems with the Linksys kit - it just works superbly. Ok, they are not the cheapest but they are the biggest and best by a country mile. The few quid extra is worth it. Linksys are a division of Cisco - says it all really. My relatively simple setup is a hardwired broadband desktop into which I put the Linksys 54G PCI card. I then placed the PCMCIA 54G cards into two laptops. Less than a dozen mouse-clicks later I had a fully WEP enabled wireless home network; sharing broadband internet, folders and a printer. Scary or what! Total setup time (including fitting the PCI card): 1 hour. Linksys also have a superb website and support infrastructure. I really knew very little about networking when I bought these items (actually I still dont) but thankfully they are painless to implement and do the job well.