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This WAP54G has performed as advertised and given me great speed and reliability throughout my house. My only problems are in the details. With the firmware upgrade it performs like it's supposed to even with the security settings. My problems:

1. The logging function is worthless. I wanna know MAC and much more detail for all connections and attempted connections. Don't even try Linksys tech support - they don't know: how often the unit attempts to update the log on the selected IP, how it does this, or why. The details are critical when configuring a firewall on the receiving machine. Nobody's got them.

2. There is virtually no way of knowing when and if anybody is actually connected wirelessly. Even the WLAN indicator lights don't work. In the user guide, WLAN link lights up when you've got a successful connection, and WLAN act lights up when packets are sent. In reality: WLAN link lights up solid and WLAN act blinks constantly - no matter what's going on wirelessly. The super-duper e-mail tech support says to "click disable wireless" on the setup page to turn off the light. This is not only a silly solution, but I don't even have a "disable wireless" button to employ the ridiculous solution.

This thing could be great. I really hope firmware upgrades eventually fix these little (but crucial) issues. If it does it'll go 5 stars for me. Linksys has gotta get some experts on the other end of the tech support lines as well.

I purchased this WAP to add wireless capability to my existing wired network at home. It worked correctly right out of the box with minimum configuration. During installation I changed the following values:

1.) Changed the default IP address to coorespond with my addressing scheme.

2.) Changed the gateway address to point to my existing wired router.

3.) Changed the default SSID and disabled SSID broadcast.

4.) Enabled MAC address filtering and added the MAC addresses of all five devices on my wired and wireless network.

This device has worked flawlessly and I am getting very acceptable data rates with no lost or dropped packets. Overall, I am very satisfied with this WAP and I would recommend highly for someone looking for an inexpensive way of adding 802.11g capability to an existing wired network.

Good Product, More detailed instructions needed.
This was my first WAP setup, needless to say I was a little disappointed in the instructions. It only showed how to use it right out of the box and nothing on how to use secure the network using MAC address and or WEP.
If I wanted to use the product out of the box, takes about 5 minutes to setup, but I wanted to secure it, took about an hour.
Still happy with the product though.