I am shipping it back for a refund now

First of all, I have two wireless devices on my network. Both work flawlessly, and did so out of the box. DHCP did everything for me with those items. However, although this product boasts that little or no configuration is required, it's basically a lie. You have to run the setup utility to get it to work on any resonable network.

After running the setup and specifying my SSID, I first tried DHCP. Didn't work. So then I tried specifying an IP. Same problem. So, and here's where it got fun, I called tech support. Linksys has BY FAR the worst technical support of any company selling wireless products. I was on hold for over two hours before I got through. When I did, I could hardly understand the gentlemen on the other end of the phone. We tried several things, but none worked. I figured I'd sleep on it, and try to get someone else to help me the next day.

I called after work, and again waited, this time for an hour and a half. All the while I continued trying different things to get this thing up and running. When I got though, the lady on the other end of the phone told me to hold while she got someone more experienced. I waited yet another hour before I heard some weird clicks and the line on the other end went silent, then dropped.

I would not recommend this product to anyone. The technical support is horrid, and the product does not fuction as described. If you want something that works, try d-link or netgear.

After seeing how easy it was to set up the WGA11B both on the CPU and the PS2 I deceided to make the jump to an all "G" network because I heard that the mixed setting can really slow down your network. I literaly had the WGA11B hooked up in five minutes without wep. Just set it to In mode pjug it in and your off. Then I decided it's better to be safe then sorry so I used the P1 setting to add wep. That was another hard 2 minutes. Up and playing PS2 online in under 15 minutes including boot up time and setting up my EA account.

The WGA11B works flawlessly. I play at my brothers house who has a wired connection and there is absolutly no difference!

The WGA54G on the other hand seems impossible to set up. I still don't know if anyone is able to do it. I have a base knowledge of computers and tried for about 1 1/2 hrs. I then called Tech support. Very nice guy that tried anything possible other that saying just whack it once real good on the side. After about an hr he said it must be defective so I drove the hr one way to return it for another. Got it home fired it up seemed to loading much faster than the other one. Wasn't locking up all the time like the other one. I spoke to soon. It must start messing up when it gets warm and it does get warm.

Called tech support again this time got a woman who was also very nice was transferred once, everyone very polite. But other than when it would freeze up the wireless light would not come on. 0-2 and not attempting #3. I will stick with the much more reliable WGA11B and hope that they come out with updates that allow "B" products to work with out slowing down the network. It doesn't slow the internet only the speed between you wireless CPU's. I still have a Linksys router WRT54G and the game adapter that work perfect. I learned my lesson and it cost me about two days.... If it's not broken, don't fix it!

Called tech support, they said it sounded defective. Returned it, got another, same results, same answer from tech support. Either their quality control standards are poor, their tech support is poor, or their product is poor.

I think it's all three.

Get the Xbox wireless adapter, if you're using Xbox. Granted, it only works with the Xbox, which is somewhat lame. Keyword, however, is WORKS.

I finally got one of the presets to work with my custom SSID in place and WEP turned on, so I'll be nice and not give this thing a one-star rating. I do recommend you just purchase the Microsoft Wireless Game Adapter. It's almost twice the price, but at least you can configure it through the Xbox OS with any hassles.

I do not plan on buying anymore Linksys products in the future.

I still have not been successful in hooking up the adapter and will be bringing it back to the store from where I purchased it. If you're stuck and haven't had any success in installing this to your gaming system and network, you might as well get your money back since the support folks over at Linksys don't give a crap about your problems with their products.

My network was originally setup with Netgear products and they were very user friendly. I'm going to see if Netgear offers a gaming solution.

Linksys sucks!

As for the gaming itself, well it is much better than I expected. I have basically used Mech Assault and Links 2004 Golf. While golfing I have suffered no lag, and no dropped games (unless some idiot decides to quit). Only complaint I have with Links is that the live voice is choppy 50-60% of the time. So choppy that it is unintelligible. I have yet to figure out if it is a Links gaming problem or a wireless gaming problem.

I also play Mech Assault. Again the gaming is very smooth. No drop off's at all like you would expect using 802.11b. But with Mech asault the voice chat is very clear and well heard. So I am guessing that the Links golf is more of a gaming problem. the only problem with MA is that you can get a real group of jerks at times, and they have forgotten that once upon a time they were new gamers also. Other than that the experience has been more than positive.

Not too difficult. It took me awhile to figure out the proper steps as the documentation is lacking on setting up with WEP enabled. The main thing was to connect the adapter via lan cable to a computer first that will be running the auto-detect software. Hot swapping didn't work for the auto-detect either. I got past this by restarting the setup software to get the auto-detect to work.

Well, with this product, I literally plugged it into the back of the xbox and BOOM... I'm online playing games.

Definitely recommended as an easy product for those of us that don't know all that much about setting up networks or troubleshooting.