Customer Reviews:
 Good While it Lasted June 19, 2008
TechSavy
3 out of 8 found this review helpful
Six days after Amazon's 30 day return window expired, my Linksys WRT54G2 router died. I cannot recall the last time a product spontaneously quit working on me.
After more than 30 minutes, Linksys' customer service chat led me to an RMA process that was arduous at best. Much of the time was spent scrolling through pointless directions for uploading new firmware to a router where none of the ports were working. At least I got an RMA. For the effort, I might have been better off just paying for a new router and considering this a lost cause.
Follow-up: decided to cancel the RMA rather than paying money to ship the old unit back to Linksys and waiting for a replacement to come out of backorder.
Summary: poor product quality and poor customer service experience.
 So easy even a dope like me can set it up! May 2, 2008
JeannieFal (Mineola, NY United States)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I was incredibly intimidated by the idea of setting up a router so I was diligent in my research. Just as I finally decided to bite the bullet to buy one of the other Linksys G routers they released this model. I liked the fact that it is sleek and there are no external antennae that you have to consider in trying to locate a space for the router. There weren't too many reviews for it because it was that new, but the reviews I did find were all favorable. Amazon got it to me quicker than they said they would and it was very easy to set up. The only problem I had was self-inflicted when I tried playing around with some of the settings, but the tech service was very cooperative and bailed me out. It's been smooth sailing ever since. All in all I am very satisfied with this product!
AWESOME ROUTER(yes I am screaming it) May 8, 2008
Craig Underhill (Irmo, SC)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
My USR5465 burned up on the 89th day of the 90 day warranty and TigerDirect pawned me off to the mfg, they sent me an RMA to return it, I literally mean it burned up smoke and heat and OMG...
This Linksys router set up so easily and practically all by itself in less than 15 minutes, I am using it with my new HP All In One C7280 also from Amazon and everything works great, from my laptop to the PC to the wireless printer, So Cool.
Very Good Router May 14, 2008
Samantha (Salt Lake City, UT)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
We are very pleased with this router. Setup was extremely easy, I have set up several wireless routers, and this was the easiest set up experience so far. Speed is comparable to the speed we were getting from the cable modem.
Solid router with great performance May 15, 2008
Shawn (Cincinnati, OH)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
I purchased this router to replace my 3 year old Netgear WGR614v5. The old router was fine, but when I upgrade to 15 Mbps service, it was bottlenecking the connection at ~3.5 Mbps. A firmware update did not help, nor did tweaking my settings. Enter the WRT54G2. This thing was flying from the get-go. It produces a strong Wifi signal and has all the features, controls and options that I want. It flawlessly supports VPN that I use for telecommuting. I haven't tried networking the Xbox 360 to it yet (which will be wireless), but I'm looking forward to seeing if it shows as an "Open NAT". That was something the Netgear router needed some help on. It eventually acheived "open NAT" status, but required several setting change iterations to get it right. On the ol' Netgear, settings changes required ~15 seconds of inactivity, while all of the network connections died (wired and wireless) and were re-estabilished, a bit of a pain. The new Linksys router performs setting changes very quickly with no need for wireless devices to re-find the router afterword (unless you make wireless security changes, of course). I also like the new router's package, compared to the old Linksys WRT54 (the big, blue brick).
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