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Old 5th Feb 05, 08:23 AM
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Thanx for the info, I think I am going to trade my Netgear 4 port wireless for a linksys ..
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Old 5th Feb 05, 01:17 PM
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@Leech - Why are you going to trade your NetGear 4 port wireless for a Linksys wireless? Please fill me in.

I like Linksys more than NetGear and I own a regular Linksys 4 port and never really needed a wireless router. It was only when I seen I could get the NetGear wireless for $9.99 after rebade did I decided I'd try one. So far I'm happy with the wireless router. I just hooked up the wireless router and it connected with no problems.

Althouth, I also bought the NetGear USB wireless adapter MA111 which also is only $9.99 after rebates.
WARNING - AVOID THE MA111 AT ALL COST!

Currently I have been unable to get the drivers that came with the the MA111 or even the SP2 beta fixes off NetGear's website to work correctly. In fact, I've tried it on two of my three computers and it gives me a blue screen memory dump. It even screwed my LAN card in one of my systems and I might be looking at a reformat if I can't figure out what it screwed up. I've uninstalled the NetGear drivers and tried to restore my system to a previous state and still it has my regular LAN card screwed up and unusable. I would agree with those that say in the case of the MA111, you get what you pay for.

Edit - Today I was on the phone with tech support at NetGear for almost an hour. At one point they wanted me to uninstall SP2 and I told them to go blow!

When I finished on the phone with them they were of no help and after I hung up I continued to work on it. I found another Beta driver setup on their site and yes I have it working now. Their tech support really sucks, well the guy I got today and the women that put me on hold yesterday and never returned sucked anyway!
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