Linksys WRT54GS Wireless Router

Pros: Easy to set up. It took a little more time, but finally got it done.
Cons: Range is very low. Hard to get a decent signal going for my laptop.

I have a home business so I bought this so I could use at home with desktop and laptop. I do my business work mainly on my Dell XPS desktop in one room, while my laptop is for personal use such as surfing Internet, kids research for homework, getting recipes, etc. while in my kitchen.

Pros: Easy to use, really attractive design, great for people new to wireless networking.
Cons: Not as powerful as others in range, okay tech support, but other than that, none.

I have installed several of these in a church. For the most part, they are great wireless routers, they are some of the best looking routers (something you would like to be seen out in the open, lol), and setup is very easy. The only thing I seem to not like about them is their range, of course I'm asking a lot to want them to go through brick walls and walls with steel reinforcement. I have never been a fan of Linksys, but I have had several users that I installed them for say they like them a lot. Overall, a good router for the home or small business user. I've heard horror stories of their tech support and even of the equipment, but have not experienced any of these things for myself, so I cannot say. I have purchased and installed about 3 of these along with 4 or 5 of Linksys' APs. Overall, good router.

Pros: Netgear 614v8 is really great
Cons: WRT54 is not worthy

I am using Netgear 614v8 router for the last few months. Believe me it's a excellent product. It is a broadcom based router and well suited for many third party firmwares like Tomato, DD-WRT and Open-WRT. Netgear has also announced the Tomato firmware for this router. I have used Tomato with this platform.... So I got the enhanced feature set for a resonably low price. It's great man....
Come on, try it out.... Let's switch to this router why should we continue to pay much for the same functionality?

Pros: Easy to setup for both home local network and internet/file/printer sharing.
Cons: None that I have seen

I had the chance to work with several wireless router recently and I must say this one is the best of them, really easy to setup and has a very good range and network performance.

I used this tutorial to establish my home network and internet sharing: http://www.cguy.net/wlan_home_net/

Pros: Easy to use and good range
Cons: EXTREMELY POOR TECH SUPPORT

I was always reluctant to buy a wireless router, because of the security risks. It was on special (during Christmas), so I bought it. Quite easy to set-up and configure security.

However, ran into some problems while configuring network and viewing shares between wired and wireless devices. After a lot of playing around with and LOT of help from various newsgroups, finally got it working.

One thing for sure TECH SUPPORT SUX. After a looooooong wait on the toll free line, finally got through. The tech was very ill-informed and was (seemed like) trained to answer only basics. He plainly refused to help me and simply told me to search for help on the net. :(

Pros: If you like wasting your time then this is for you!
Cons: Tech Support stinks - software provided didn't work

I wanted to go wireless but with the linksys router and card it would'nt work at all. Non of the software that came with this worked on either of my machines and then I had to download everything. I spoke to 6 different people over 5 hours of time with their tech support, only one spoke English where you could understand it. They told me I had driver issues and that they would e-mail me the driver I needed. The e-mail never came so I took both the router and card back to the store (in a snow storm) and bought a netgear system. In 10 minutes of getting back home I was networked and running wireless from my laptop the way it was supposed to work. Save yourself the hours of pain and just get the netgear. I don't wish it on anyone what I had to go through with the Linksys.

Pros: easy to install
Cons: configuration interface odd in places

This product is a piece of cake to use. My apartment building provides network access (wired). I just plugged this router into the wall and it was ready to go. Of course, I went and changed the default network name, and set the security settings. But it did work right out of the box.

The software is a little weird in places. In the web based interface, there are some misspellings, these were corrected with a firmware upgrade. Like any router with security, it's possible to misconfigure it and lock yourself out of the configuration utility, but the reset button on the back fixes this quickly.

Overall, I'm quite happy with this router. The coolest feature is that it is capable of updating records in various dynamic DNS services (dyndns, etc). Unfortunatly, because my apartment ISP puts me behind a NAT, I haven't been able to use this feature.

Pros: Looks OK
Cons: Awful technical service

I bought this along with a Linksys WPC54G adaptor card for my Toshiba notebook but gave up after three days of over three hours per day trying to get some sense from Linksys so-called
"technical support" somewhere on the Indian sub-continent. They were incapable of helping me to get any wireless communication whatsoever and the sessions finished with incredible statements such as "You must delete Windows Service Pack 2 and replace it with Service Pack 1 !!!"
One most annoying feature of the WPC54G is that it comes with a sticker which insists that the user run the CD before doing anything else.On my first call to Linksys I was told that Windows XP users should NOT run the CD.
Many reviewers seem to have had good experiences so I might perhaps have a defective WRT54G/WPC54G but, after my exhausting sessions with their unintelligible "technical support people" I can see no point in trying to get Linksys to look into the problem.

Pros: they have good marketing skills
Cons: they suck

I had the exact same interaction with their Tech Support, they told me to buy this router when I asked them for the port redirection feature, after buying the router and installing it, I realized I was fulled.

Pros: Great signal, fantastic tech support
Cons: A bit complicated to configure for a total novice

When we switched from dial-up to DSL, we decided to simply go all in, and get a wireless router, too, so we could access the web on our other computers, too. Frankly, it was all a bit more work than I had anticipated, but that may have been simply because I was trying to get so many new things to work all at one! I had to call tech support a couple of times, but really, that was fine. They were very courteous, and quite knowledgable. The tech I spoke to patiently walked me through everything I needed to do, which was great, since it was somewhat beyond my scope of understanding, as far as computers go. Once everything was aligned, it worked like a charm, and still does. The signal I get on my laptop, as well as our other PC (with a Lynksys PCI card) is always excellent, and there has yet to be any problems. I'd recommend this brand highly, even if it were just for the tech support!

Pros: PHENOMENAL SIGNAL WHICH CAN REACH AT LEAST 120 FEET FROM MY CABLE MODEM
Cons: SETTUP WAS TRICKY.

I HAD PROBLEMS NETWORKING USING MY OLD WIRELESS B ROUTER AND COULD ONLY NETWORK A MEDIOCRE SIGNAL A FEW FEET FROM MY MAIN COMPUTER.AFTER SETTING UP THE LINKSYS-G 2.4 GHX ,I COULD ACCESS THE INTERNET FROM THE SECOND FLOOR OF MY HOUSE RUNNING 54 BITS AT LIGHTNING SPEED USING A CABLE NETWORK.I CAN RUN 4 COMPUTERS AT FULL CAPACITY ALL OVER MY HOUSE.MY 5 YEAR OLD GATEWAY RUNS TWICE AS FAST USING THE NEW ROUTER.

Pros: Fast to install
Cons: Too many reboots and no predicatability on when it will lose network connectivity.

We, my sister and I, purchased the Linksys WRT54GS and the pci card to go with it so we could share one internet connection. We've only been connected 2 months and just like that blam!!! it stopped working. There we were downstairs surfing and then it just quit.

I spent 3 hours with tech support, who determined that we had a faulty device and then told me that I would have to talk to customer service on the next business day. The product has a 3 year limited warranty. And I frankly don't see the point.

It was fairly easy to install, which is it's only good point right now. It required several reboots and one reset made it completely useless.

Pros: many great features
Cons: features are useless because it doesn't work

Linksys recently "upgraded" the WRT54G from version 4 to version 5. From what I hear, v4 is a great router. From personal experience I can say v5 is broken, even with the latest firmware version 1.00.6. I was able to connect, but not much more. Ping times to Google were 10 seconds or more per ping, and could not view many web sites because the browser would time out before a response came. Was not a problem with MTU, cables, computers, configuration-- I swapped the Linksys for another router and everything worked fine with the other.

Pros: Reliable working unsecured.
Cons:     Special web site essential for adding new computers was taken down by linksys.

I've never been able to use wireless when the network has been secured.

I ought this modem two years ago. Most recently, I bought a new notebook. The system refused to allow the notebook to join. When I attempted to use the software furnished with the router, it directed me to a website when the needed linksys program would be uploaded onto my new notebook. That website which was inside linksys was taken down...it does not exist.
   A visit to online support chat, told me it was out of warranty. I can pay for tech support if I want more info.

Pros: Easy setup, reliable, good range, firmware updates available.
Cons: Wish it had more than four wired ports.

I have had this router for 3 years and just realized that it has never given me any trouble. It works perfectly and seems to have good range in my two story house. I was thinking about gettting a new N type wireless router but after reading all the poor reviews I decided not to fix something that isn't broken. I have used it with a wireless laptop to watch youtube videos with no pauses or hangs so I know this wireless router has reasonable speed.