So I thought what the heck, I'll just plug it into the Xbox and see if it works. The 'g' light won't light even though it's only about 7 feet away, however, it seems to work on some level. I played Project Gothem racing and Mechassault with no problems. According to the "ScreenSavers", you don't need 'G' speed anyway to run this stuff. My complaint is these directions and utilities seem to be useless and I followed the directions to a tee!

It took me about 2 minutes to set up this adapter. It works great.

I am sure this is a high quality product, and you should get it if you are not running WEP.

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 plug 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 the 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!

I bought the WRT54G and WGA54G at the same time, in order to use them together. Setting up and configuring the router was easy, as I had a BEFSX41, until getting the wireless router. According to Linksys, the only difference between the two (other than the obvious wireless LAN) is that you cannot turn off the firewall in the WRT54G. (There seems to be a firewall enable/disable on the web based utility, so I'm not sure what they were trying to tell me.)

Back to the game adapter. This thing cost me at least 1.5 days of heartache. True, if you follow the quick start directions by connecting the game adapter (GA) directly to the computer, and using the setup CD, you won't have many problems (although I found that I had to assign an IP address to my PC manually, instead of using DHCP for this to work reliably). The real problem comes into play when you want to use the web based utility.

If your first thought was that you could use the web based utility wirelessly, think again. Linksys says it should work. It doesn't. After spending 65 minutes talking to a support person, he finally got so upset with me (even though I was doing my best to keep cool about it, and do everything he asked), that he had me connect it to my PS2 and connect wirelessly to an online game, he said problem solved, even though I couldn't use the web based utility wirelessly. He was unwilling to go any further.

What I did learn was what someone else already said. If you want to use the web based utility, you have to be connected with a wired connection. My best luck was connecting directly to the PC, as before, and then typing the IP address of the GA into your browser. You can then set everything up you wish. I was even connected to the internet wirelessly after everything was set up correctly, through the GA (after I switched my PC back to DHCP). Once that is done, disconnect it, and connect up your gaming console, and you should be ready to go. I would hope that Linksys will come out with a firmware upgrade that will make the interface more reliable.

The problem with connecting it wired to the router is as stated below, that you will have an IP conflict, because you have the same IP address registered as a wired IP and a wireless IP (Windoze XP kept pointing this out to me, and I finally realized why). Unless the GA disconnects from the router wirelessly, it will be a pain to set up this way.

I would still recommend this product, as it works perfectly, once set up, however, here are a few tips to remember.

1. Don't use online chat with Linksys while trying to set up this game adapter if you are using the computer you are using to chat, as the computer you are trying to set the game adapter up with. Reason: You will most likely get disconnected because you are fooling with IP addresses, and you can't reconnect to the same person.

2. Set up your router and game adapter to be "Wireless-G only" if you don't have any Wireless-B devices, because your W-G connection will be faster.

Another thing is, even after I configured this with my playstation...I was able to connect everything...it worked great, but the wirless G light on the bottom wasnt doing anything...only the ethernet light was blinking. I looked closer to it and just found out it was a dim light because the light was Wireless G like WAS blinking very dimly at different times. All I'm going to say is remember to put this on infastructure mode, and plug this in DIRECTLY to your computer with NO CONNECTION present to your computer and the drivers should do the rest. All you have to do is reset you computer after you configure it so you can get your internet connection back again. Also, originally I thought the wireless G light not working was the cause of lagging on my PS2...but it turns out it all matters who you play and what connection they have.

Basically, you can set up everything correctly and the main page of the web-based utility will still say that the wireless adapter is "not connected".

What's happening? While the web-based utility is running the ethernet port of the wga54g is connected to the ethernet port of your pc. If, as suggested by Linksys, you manually select an ip address for the wga54g on the network (as opposed to allowing the router to assign an address using DHCP), the wireless address for you wga54g will share its internet address with the ethernet port of the wga54g, resulting in a conflict. Because of this conflict,the web-based utility will report that the wireless adapter is not attached to the network. If you disconnect the wga54g's ethernet port, however, the web-based utility will not function, as it seems to require a wired link to the network.

My advice. Follow Linksys's advice about manually assigning an ip address. Don't worry about the "Not connected" status reported by the web-based utility. If, according to the web-based utility, the wga54g sees the network, you are probably in decent shape. Disconnect the wga54g's ethernet port from the pc, connect the wga54g to the network port of your gaming system, configure the gaming system, and test to see if all works. Hint: To eliminate range concerns, it's handy to move the gaming system into the same room as the pc while you are configuring everything

This game adapter however cost me an entire Sunday afternoon, which to me is rediculous. I ended up purchasing two of these adapters, exchanging one after I worked for 2 hours on configuring it using a wireless notebook. It never once was able to connect to the wireless network and yes before I attempted to add this I turned on SSID broadcasting, disabled MAC filtering, switched the SSID channel to the default of 6. After waiting for approx. 50 minutes on hold for Linksys support, the call lasted 2 minutes instructing me to return it, as it was defective.

I returned with another adapter and called Linksys immediately, waiting for over 60 minutes this time and spent another 60 minutes on the phone with a support rep that was not very technical or experienced with the other Linksys 802.11G products I had (WAP54G, WPC54G, WMP54G) he concluded that I was too far from the WAP to receive any signal, although I remind you that I was using a notebook with a wireless adapter in the same room that had access/signal without problem. Even from within the same room as the WAP I couldn't get signal, I could only get signal when it was physically attached to my router.

After seeing the other reviews, I may try the 802.11B adapter and see how that fairs. I just want to express if you have difficulty, don't waste your time calling, just try to use the included and web materials or return the item. Cmon Linksys, please address this problem!

Update: I got it working, don't know for sure which of the many things I tried finally did it. I won't go into detail since I did a lot of steps and may only pertain to my Netgear WGT624v2 router. What a struggle, I raised my rating to 2 Stars since the performance is great. Note: make sure if using WEP, go to "Advanced" setup page and select Shared Key if not already set, mine wasn't (be sure to APPLY), then go back to first setup page, select your SSID from list (may have to Refresh) and click CONNECT, then APPLY.

I'm having the same issues as "an electonics fan", I even returned first adapter thinking it's defective. More like the Linksys tech support is defective (over hour on hold, online chat failed). She says I need to set static IP in PS2...Linksys intructions doesn't say anything about that in their 3 step instructions. She never asked what wireless router or firmware I'm using (Netgear WGT624). Going thru setp seems fine, sees SSID, enable 64bit WEP (she said it's not tested to use 128bit WEP)...but plugged into PS2 and no worky. She says they've done their part, now rest is up to Sony! Baloney! Buy at own risk.

I then hooked the Xbox directly to the WGA54G and, after cycling power on it, the Xbox was able to connect. Online searches found posts indicating that I could hook multiple ip address-based devices to the adaptor but only one mac address-based device to it. Now, I know what IP address and MAC address are but the whole thing doesn't make sense to me. Ultimatley everything is MAC address-based so I don't know what that distinction really means.

At any rate, this thing works for me as a game adaptor but does not appear to work as a true wireless bridge. Currently, I have to move cables from Xbox to Tivo when either needs to connect.

Hope this helps someone

I just went through my second unit. Both times, everything's fine with a direct connection to the router. Unfortunately, the Wireless-G light does not go on, and there's not internet connection, w/out a direct connection to the router, which makes the device useless. Tech support could not help. My router and wga54g settings are correct. Lot's of similar complaints here, but I'm not sure if there are this many defective units out there. It's possible that a fix exists, but Linksys technical support is clueless. So, it's either the problem is either an abundance of defective units, or a shortage of good tech support.