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Linksys Instant EtherFast® USB200M USB Network Adapter
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Price Range $25 - $43 Featured Merchants
Product Description Now you can connect to any 10/100 Ethernet network without having to open your PC. And with the power of USB 2.0, you
brad's Experience
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Written By brad Date Written Nov 05 2004 Summary How Dood? Boy, the other guy here with a review of this thing must have had a real bad experience. One star? Useless? This thing's plug-n-play, dude. Well, not entirely. I had to use the drivers disc for a Windows 98 box on my network. But... Strength optional dongle. wide bandwidth. driver-less with XP, Tivo. Weakness to me, none. Bottom Line Acts as a replacement NIC. Does what it is supposed to do. Reasonably priced. Good instructions included. Designed to break!
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Written By wiggiegee Date Written Mar 03 2005 Summary Products like this annoy me. It was obviously designed poorly on purpose. This would be a great product if they had made it about 2mm thicker which would allow a standard female RJ-45 ethernet jack to be the end. Instead, they made a little flimsy... Strength Very small size. Works well. Tivo compatible. Weakness Flimsy ethernet connector designed to break. Terrible terrible terrible
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Written By kabukidragon Date Written Feb 23 2004 Summary This adapter is the biggest piece of you-know-what. We have the Linksys router which works fine and we wanted to connect our other computer which doesn't have a network card installed, so we bought the Linksys adapter for it. Worst mistake we could have... Strength Cheap Weakness Everything else. Cable falls out, adapter falls apart, doesn't read. Falls apart, but is easy to use.
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Written By lizaochka Date Written Jan 07 2005 Summary I have bought this adapter as a replacement for an ethernet card, since my computer could not fit it (it's a barby computer). It worked fine for some time, but it started to stop working about a month or so. I had to unplug it and plug it back in. In the... Strength Cheap, easy to use, compact Weakness Fall apart flimsy, breaks easily
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Written By crpeck Date Written Jan 04 2008 Summary I bought mine to use with my Tivo, it worked until I had to move the Tivo, then the plastic "door" that holds the cable in place broke - now I can't get the cable to stay in. I've tried taping it but can't get the cable aligned correctly. Basically,... Strength none Weakness cheap, flimsy, breaks easily, bad design Badly Designed adapter
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Written By ilene64 Date Written Aug 15 2005 Summary I bought this adapter for my tivo. The tivo saw the adapter but could not find the ethernet. Because of the funny angle the ethernet cable does not stay connected. I spent an hour trying to figure out what was wrong with my tivo but really it because... Strength Small, cheap Weakness Ethernet cable falls out, will not keep connection |
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