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This is not the sort of thing you expect to need to do after paying $80 for a two-inch-long device. The ethernet plug has to go at the exact right angle or it won't stay.
It's beyond me why they couldn't do with the tried and true RJ45 socket design. This has to be the most poorly designed device I've seen with the Linksys brand on it.
Which they will. Instead, the little door flips up, and the ethernet plug goes in at an angle, and the door is supposed to catch the plug hook to keep the cable in place.
The door is held at the right height by tiny plastic rods that fall out if you look at them funny and good luck finding them if they do fall out. And if both of those plastic rods fall out -- which they will -- you're going to have to wrap wrap some tape around that door to keep it at the right position.
Has to be the poorest physical design for a network device I've seen, ever.
I have had this device for many years now and it has worked well, except that you might need to install the drivers first. That can be a problem if the reason you are using it is because you have no other way to connect to a network / the internet. Before you try to install it (and if you do not have a CD for it), you might want to download the drivers from Linksys and copy them to a flash drive on another PC. Then, copy them over to the other PC from the flash drive.I have had to use this on two different laptops and a desktop and it has worked great.
However, it stays "attached" by way of the little plastic cover that comes off at the slightest provocation - like, say moving your DVR back into place or the cable moving.at all. OK. I contemplated duct-taping everything together but instead, chose to return it. So I'm stupid for having bought this thing in the first place but a stupider design I can't imagine. I guess I assumed, when I saw the cover on the USB gadget that they actually had a plug you could insert the cable into. Don't BUY THIS DESIGN.any model. Linksys, get a different design.
Needed this for my OLPC. Worked out of the box with no drivers needed.NOTE: works great with USB hub layout.
Nothing really to "review" as this is a "worked" or- "did't-work" product. It worked.
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