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5 of 5 humans found the following review helpful.
Works great, needs 10-minute warmup after power-on/setup
By AHostileBanana
I purchased two of these, one to act as a wireless access point on my pre-existing network, and another to act as an ethernet converter to connect my XBox 360 and Blue-ray player to the wireless network.
ENVIRONMENT:
Netgear 802.11b wireless router, 2 laptops (Win XP/7), XBox 360, internet-enabled blue-ray player
PERFORMANCE:
I get 10 Mbps internet speed from my cable provider, as tested by [...] over a wired connection. I purchased these buffalo gimmicks to make sure I get that full speed over the wireless (using my old 802.11b router, I got ~5Mbps).
I’ve had these for a few weeks now. After installation I get the full 10 Mbps on my laptops (connected directly to the access point), my XBox (connected to the ethernet-converter device), and on my Motorola Droid 1.
Regarding local-network-only speeds, I tested a transfer from a Win XP laptop to a Win 7 laptop, and only get 10 Mbps speed; possibly my old router is limiting transfer speeds, I’m not sure. Luckily it doesn’t matter, I only care when it comes to the internet speed, and I’m getting all of it.
INSTALLATION:
For the most share just follow the instructions, but I did spend 2 hours with respective hiccups that may be avoided, so here are a few tips:
1. Remove your old wireless network from your computer’s list, or else disable the old wireless network. If your PC connects to that old network automatically, it will interfere with the wired connection too the Buffalo device that you need for the duration of setup, and you’ll get a warning that there are 2 network connections available.
2. When setting up a wireless-to-wired ethernet converstion, be conscious that if you use the AOSS feature to mechanically connect 2 of these devices, the way they do it is to generate a new network for that one connection (with it is own SSID and password). If you want to keep out of the way of that (as I did), they provide the option to install a piece of software on your PC that will let you connect the device to the same SSID you’ll be using with your other devices. It’ll want you to choose a device to configure and the list will include your network cards, the way to tell which is the buffalo device is to check the serial number printed on the buffalo device, it’s the same as the identifier staged in the device-selection menu.
3. *** IMPORTANT ***. These widgets seem to need a 10-minute warmup after you finish the installation and set up process. You’ll connect to your new wireless network, only to see your network speed drop from 130 Mbps to 65 Mbps to 1 Mbps. It’ll fluctuate back and forth and you’ll think there’s something wrong. Give it 10 min and it will stabilize at full speed. (seems to take place again if you power them off and back on)
CUSTOMER SERVICE:
I thought I had a problem for the duration of that warm-up amount of time I mention above, and called client service. The phone was answered by a tech without delay (no wait time). Beyond that I can’t say, my network stabilized while I was on the phone so I didn’t need any aid after all.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
Great Device for turning Ethernet into Wireless
By S. Martin
I employed two of these to convert an Ethernet WAN port on a router into a wireless connection. This permitted me to use a Sprint Overdrive device as the Internet provider for my network of Ethernet devices. It worked great. Not the easiest instructions but I was competent to get it working by using the Ethernet converter Manager software that comes with the unit.
1 of 1 humans found the following review helpful.
EXCELLENT Product
By desilou freebush
The Buffalo Technology Nfiniti Wireless-N Dual Band Ethernet Converter, Access Point and Bridge WLAE-AG300N was incisively what we were looking for in an access point for our home office. being that my husband and i both work from home, it was necessary to find just the right thing & have it be quality/reliable.
Set up was easy thanks to the manual included on the CD that came with the Buffalo/Nfiniti.
We’ve been using the Buffalo/Nfiniti for when it comes to two months and have had no difficultnesses whatsoever, this has been an EXCELLENT addition to our home network.
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