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This is exactly what we needed to get my computer and printer online and working at the office.
I highly recommend these products for anyone seeking an easy solution to home networking. I spent 2 days trying to get a Linksys WRT54g to work and it finally just quit working altogether. I just recently bought a WGR614 for connecting 2 laptops to the internet and it was amazingly simple to setup. However the Netgear FA311 NIC has some issues. I've had my DS104 since October of 2001. It has worked in a multidude of different situations and has always performed flawlessly. Netgear makes some of the best products i've ever come across.
I ordered this product on 10/10/05 and it still hasn't shipped. It doesn't even ship after the extra 3-5 days for super saving shipping. Don't buy it. They claim this product ships in 3-5 days. It doesn't. And they won't let you change the order, even though I have received three messages stating that I "may be able to." Customer service claims it is "in the shipping process" which is clearly a lie.
They will initially work but then, without any reason, the link between them will quit working. Since there was no way of reproducing the problem, they took the stance that there was no problem. If you are using just a single hub you probably won't have any problems.If you plan on daisy-chainging them together, you will run into an issue where the hubs must be reset every week or so. We had Netgear 200+ hubs and found this problem in nearly all of them.Netgear support was of no help either.
I am using windows xp on both cpu's and I am getting frustrated with the whole thing, I am getting sorry I bought this hub, it shouldn't be this much trouble to set up a connection between my computers. If I do not succeed in getting help from the people who manufactured it, it is history. I have tried to set up this hub with my home cpu and laptop and with no luck so far. I may take it back to the store where I bought it and find something a little easier to set up.
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