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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Information you find out after you buy an item, 9 May 2004
With a desktop PC hooked up to a Wireless Access Point Router with a 4 point switch, I bought a Linksys PCMCIA card for my laptop. With modern laptops running hotter, I found the PCMCIA card cooked, and my laptop would crash and reboot itself. I found I could only use the PCMCIA Card for 30 mins, before taking it out and cooling it against a window pane. I tried the USB device, and this did not pick up the signals at all well between the walls and floors.I thought that using a WAP11 in another part of the house, I could use a crossover network cable between the WAP11 and the laptop, and that my problems were over. I found to my cost, after calls to the Linksys Helpdesk, that this will not work either. You need two WAP11 devices and the Wireless Access Point Router. So I bought a second WAP11 and thought I had finally achieved my goal. Next problem, was that one of the WAP11's was version 2.2 and the other was version 2.6. You need to know which version you are getting when you buy this item. Version 2.2 will never operate in Wireless repeater mode and has no firmware upgrade to provide this mode. At the time of writing, this crucial version information for the WAP11 you are buying, is not shown in the technical section of the Amazon website. You would only find out the version after the item was delivered. In addition the WAP11 version 2.6 needs a firmware upgrade to v1.07 to get the Wireless repeater mode. It wont work out of the box until you do this. So I finally achieved my goal, but I now have a LINKSYS USB device, a PCMCIA device and a WAP11 version 2.2 device to sell on eBay. You will not not find the information you need before you buy on the manufacturer's, nor supplier's website. In summary, you should contact the supplier's helpdesk first, pay to speak to a human, and ignore all the website support information which is often out of date, misleading and wrong.
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