The 8.11b full compatible wireles device that works with almost any access point in your house including your Apple airport base station ! Install the drivers that will also work with Windows XP, connect your USB device to your computer or hub and restart your computer. The reach and power is beyond belief. The green monitor will show in the low right corner of your computer and you are on line.

Looks like a device from a toy store but is worth its weight in gold! ...

With Linksys WAP and wireless USB adapter I've connected my home PC to my office network. Buildings are over 300 meters away from each other, but usual signal quality is not lower than 70-80 percent. So this device allows me to control my network remotely and it also provides me broadband Internet connection, which we have in the office.

When it's rainy, I just stay at home and work from there. :) Thanks to Linksys.

The Windows ME drivers for this product caused blue-screen errors on my Vaio PCG-FX210 until I finally removed them. The Windows XP driver doesn't appear to work at all (it recognizes the unit, but won't see any networks.) The XP driver is also unsigned, and the installation instructions tell the hapless user to simply ignore the unsigned driver warnings from XP. Since they've had plenty of time to have the driver qualified by Microsoft, my guess is they just haven't gone to the trouble to make it reliable enough to pass Logo testing.

For what it's worth, I've relegated this thing to use on an older machine running Windows 98, and it seems stable enough in that configuration.

Maybe the "other" WUSB11 and its drivers are more stable.

Scott

Most of the problems people have are due to the router programming. "Remember to read directions throughly" on setting router controls.

I just upgraded to the latest driver and firmware which has left me unable to receive any packets. I am left wondering if I will need to replace my WAP11 access point with one of the other hardware revisions recently released.

Based upon how many hardware, firmware, and software revisions that these products have undergone in the last year, building a reliable Linksys wireless network can be an expensive and tiring project.

Linux users: Linksys has stopped putting prism2 chipsets in the WUSB11; current revisions are based on the Amtel chipset. Amtel refuses to release interface specs, so WUSB11 units above revision 2.5 will probably never be supported (especially since there are many much better options available.)

Finally, networking over USB is a lame idea; USB data transfers are vastly more CPU-intensive than PCI or PCMCIA. Because USB is a shared bus format, on a busy network or while doing intensive data transfer you'll be slagging your machine. The only reason to buy one of these things is if your machine has no network card and can't accept one.

One caveat... Linksys tech support is very hit and miss. The first guy I talked to was an [unknowledgable person] who any created additional problems that shut down my whole network for an afternoon. The next guy I talked to was awesome.

...I would create a "zero stars" category. 30 days of Linksys products operation and tech support activities related to this device included:
(1) A support technician telling me over the phone" "maybe you don't know enough about computers to be setting up a home network..."
(2) This adapter crashed Windows XP when connected via a sep USB 2.0 port residing on an expansion card (it worked fine when connected via the motherboard's USB 1 port; the Linksys tech who made the comment above was NOT the one who figured this out; guess who did).
(3) It took two weeks of daily tweaking (including multiple instances of key string re-entry) to get the 128-bit WEP to work.
(4) 30-days after purchase, the WUB11 wireless adapter failed. Linksys promised an RMA via email in 12-24 hours. It took four days and three additional phone calls.
If you are still in the product selection phase, avoid Linksys like the plague. I will never consider them for a future home or business solution, and will never recommend them to anybody in the market from home/small office wireless solutions.