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This is an excellent bit of kit and has functioned flawlessly for me.
Far superior to some of the other router I have had.
Im not sure why someone would think it doesnt have a RJ45 port for a patch cable to/from a modem. IT DOES.
The earlier review was a bit confused I guess!
Not the cheapest wireless router I could find, but I decided to sacrafice price for reliability and ease of use, and I'm glad that I did. Had it set-up working with my Virgin broadband within 10 minutes and had my PC and laptop connected with wires. Had my Wii and PSP connected wirelessly within another 10 minutes, all with WPA security.
Very very simple to set-up, no problems so far and good signal strength.
This is the Linux based version of the WRT54G wireless router. The linksys sourced firmware has had a number of years to settle and so is stable. Whereas the new versions of the WRT54G are now VxWorks based and have been reported to have had a few teething problems. This router may easily be reflashed with OpenWRT - http://www.openwrt.org if desired.
Have no idea about the products performance but doesn't have a socket to connect a DSL modem. So unless you have a RJ45 connection you can't use it.
So you can't share you internet DSL connection as advertised.
So this has a standard RJ45 input for standard Cat5/Cat5e patch cable from a standard twisted pair ethernet cable/DSL modem?
I am fed up with picking up the pieces after people have bought devices like this one which is dishonestly titled by Linksys. Linksys Wireless-G Broadband Router, it says provides 3 devices in 1: wireless, cable and router. So how come it has the word BROADBAND in the title? People buy these thinking they can then get me plug their broadband connector straight in and distribute the internet. WHY DO THEY HAVE BROADBAND IN THE TITLE? Surely ANY router could have broadband in the title if this device does?
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