waynedude's Full Review: NetGear WG602 802.11b/g Wireless Access Point
I bought this to upgrade to 802.11 G and because it came bundled with a USB stick for my laptop. Well from the get-go, I could not get the wireless connection running using a wep key because I tried using the phrase vs entering a full key (which took about an hour with tech support to figure out (and it is a known problem!). I initially tried to upgrade the firmware, which didn't work at all, and support suggested I go back to the old firmware because the new one has issues. I am going through three stories of house (computer in the kitchen on floor one, router in my office on third floor) and the connection is like a roller coaster ride! Sometimes it gets up to 48M (the best it has ever been) and then it will go down to 1M or drop altogether... I am using it with slingplayer to stream video over my wireless network, and you can watch the swings in realtime as the video stream drops to a crawl, audio drops and video freezes, until the stream picks back up. Frequently, it will just lose it altogether, and require you to enact a "repair network connection" which works some of the time. The most consistent way to get it to work is to pull the power on the router and reconnect it, at which point everything starts working again, for a while... Then it all happens over again. No rhyme nor reason, not even consistency in time! This product is a piece of garbage...
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