| U.S. Robotics USR8022 Wireless Cable/DSL Router (22 Mbps) |
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Model: USR8022
Brand: USRobotics
Manufacturer: US Robotics
Average Rating: 
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Total Reviews: 15
Form factor: External
Hardware platform: PC
Data link protocol: Ethernet, Fast Ethernet, IEEE 802.11b
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| Features: |
Exclusive accelerator technology for enhanced performance beyond 22 Mbps
Compatible with all 802.11g and 802.11b wireless products
Built-in 256-bit WEP encryption for superior security
Share cable, DSL, or dial-up Internet access among multiple PCs |
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| Description: |
| U.S. Robotics makes wireless networking easy. Its 22Mbps Wireless Cable/DSL Router is easy to set up and use - it installs in three simple steps. Wireless convenience and ease of use means you can share your high-speed Internet connection across multiple computers - get everyone online at the same time. The U.S. Robotics family of 22Mbps wireless networking products provides double the transmission speed, greater range, and better area coverage than existing 11Mbps products. |
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| User Reviews (15 total): |
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fan of USR products, but not for the faint of heart, March 12, 2004
By lilestj (Houston, TX)
Well, our family has been using USR since the late 80's with a Courier 2400 baud modem (2.4Kbps). Anyways, regarding the 8022, in my experience this device has been rock solid. First the negatives: 1) Only 2 LAN ports (plus 1 for WAN) which may be too few for some people; most other similar products have 4 or so. 2) User manual is sparse to be generous. 3) Doesn't stand vertically (if that matters to you...I just stack the things on top of it and it seems to work ok). 4) One OS's on one of my computers (the other OS on that computer is fine) doesn't like it as a router without some tweaking (which fixes it), but nowhere would you find how to do it if you didn't know how to do it already. These are the only reasons it didn't get a 5/5 in my experience.
For me, the USR8022 is currently is set up to be an access point (I prefer using my SMC wired router still for a few reasons, including the above negatives), with far superior signal quality and range than the Netgear MR814v2 I was using before (which, by the way, shares negative points 2 and 4 with the USR8022). My notebook uses a 3com 3CRSHPW196 and web-browses like it was wired (much better than Netgear); granted I am usually fairly close to the 8022, but it performs as one hopes equipment would perform. I have also used it conjunction with a USR2249 (access point configured to function as an access point client) and was able to transfer 700mb files successfully (win98se->winxp machine), which took significantly longer than on the wired network, but was still successful.I have not yet connected a printer to this device, but I have not had issues with it's predecessor the USR8011 in connecting printers. I'm sure in the future this 8022 will become a print server too. both my thumbs up to this product.
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a piece of s..., November 22, 2003
By jsimao4 (Lisboa Portugal)
This is my second buy from USR. This one has the same problem: drops connection when downloading big files (the same happened with the USR2249). Must reboot router before it works again. The support people are a bunch of idiots, don't answer your emails. It will go directly to trash can. DONT'T BUY ANYTHING FROM THIS GUYS.
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Complete Garbage becomes somewhat acceptable with tweaking, November 16, 2003
By unknown
Like others, my box would lose its internet connection every 15 minutes or so. The wireless feature was dropping off at two feet! WEP was making the connection, but I was unable to get any further.I found that my 3.2GHz phone was causing the wireless distance problems. I figured the power supply may not be supplying enough current, so rigged a connection to my computer's power supply, which provides the necessary 5V. The system now only loses the internet connection about 5 times a day. I conclude that this device is garbage, but I am stuck with it for now. DON'T BUY ONE!! In fact, (and I would never have said this 5 years ago) don't buy USR products at all. Funny.. just found out my interent connection was down when I tried to submit this. had to reboot my box yet again. GARBAGE!
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Best Wireless Router, November 11, 2003
By rick6450 (Virginia)
Okay, I see that I'm swimming against the tide with this review, but I love my USR 8022. I do computer consulting and have installed about 8 of these. All have worked great. It has a excellent range (goes 3 floors away in my house), has a serial port (allowing it to use an external dial-up modem when my cable goes out), has a print server (which I use all the time, so it works for my Brother MFC), and has detachable antennas. IMO, this router is severly underrated. I have used the USR 8022 since it came out and find it to be rock solid. It has port forwarding, a firewall, and all the standard security options.One word of warning--use v3.1 of the firmware. That is what it ships with it currently. There is an upgrade to 4.2 but it is currently in beta. It works, but causes a printer problem for me, a line at the bottom of the page. So far as I can tell, the firmware cannot be rolled back to an older version. I have used new 802.11g routers from Dlink, Linksys, and Apple. The USR 8022 is my favorite among them. The only other option would be to try to go all 802.11g to get faster LAN speeds. This would cost you twice as much. You'd need to buy a seperate print server, and you'd loose the ability to attach an external dial-up modem to the router for a back-up connection. Because most people just care about Internet speeds, 802.11b is more than fast enough.
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Junk, November 4, 2003
By unknown
I took this router - tossed it in the garbage after spending an hour on the phone with the "tech" - (the phone call at my expense) after the hour his comment was "well maybe it is defective" - I then went out and purchased a D-link router and junked this one - they wanted me to pay $25 to expidite the replacement - or I could wait two to three weeks while I shipped mine back (at my expense) so that they could fix it - by the way I won't be buying any other US Robotics junk any more
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Apart from the printer port, works well at 11MByte/sec, May 19, 2003
By Michael A. Kinsella (Wilsonville, Oregon USA)
I have been using for 6 months, apparently with more luck than other reviewers.
I network 2 PCs and one laptop. I am using USR 1120 (USB) and USR 2414 (PCI/PCMCIA type II) 11Mbyte/sec adaptors on the other machines. All use Windows 98SE.
I get the full 11Mbyte/sec over distances up to 80', though several walls in the house - one computer located upstairs, the other on the ground floor. Where computers are in the same room I get signal strength and link quality reading of 100%. Across the house I get readings of 60-70%, but good communication/connection speeds which is what counts. I have not tried running at 22Mbyte/sec as the other computers all have 11Mbyte/sec access points - I bought the higher speed router as there was no price difference for an 11Mbyte version.
Maybe the unit works better with other USR Wireless access points than it does with those of 3rd parties- I have not seen the communication speed issues reported by other reviewers.
Installation was easy, once you get used to running the set-up via your web browser. But I would have preferred more comprehensive technical reference manuals than seem to be available from USR. There is little on their website, nor on the CD that comes with the equipment.
I like the serial port feature, which allows the use of a regular of ISDN T/A as backups. I used these with an EICON DIVA T/A no problem. There is an "Extra settings" line on the modem set-up menu that allows you to add "AT" commands for the modem. This is not explained anywhere in the sparse documentation supplied. I had to phone their technical support who answered the phone quickly and were efficient and friendly. But a decent manual would be good.
The broadband internet connection comes via a Westell wirespeed 890 DSL modem supplied by Verizon. No compatibility issues. Just plug and play.
The 2 ethernet ports are useful and work with no problems
The printer port does not support 2 way communications. This is useless from my perspective, so I stopped using it. I find it better to just let other computers share a printer connected directly to one machine on the network. This means the machine connected to the printer must be on to allow printing. Not always convenient.
I am very pleased with the way other devices (scanner, cameras) can be shared.
I mailed my rebate coupon on Jan 02, got the check back April 16.
Overall I find this reasonable value for money. As long as it works with your hardware, it is low cost, easy to use and reliable.
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Great features and price - terrible performance and setup, April 12, 2003
By A Thoughtful Tech Geek (Santa Barbara, CA United States)
I fiddle-dinked around with the USR8022 unit for hours trying to get it to work with my Cox Cable modem (Motorola Surfboard) with no results. I could get the unit to grab an IP address from my LinkSys router (which I hoped to replace with the 8022 to go wireless), but it refused to get an IP address from the cable modem. I called Cox, and they explained that the cable modem should self-register any device attached to it (i.e. the MAC address) but it was not working with the USR8022. Finally, I went into the configuration for the USR8022 and cloned the MAC address of the LinkSys router (which was working with the cable modem) and voila! it worked. Now the only problem is that the signal strength is TERRIBLE! I am using a laptop with a Symbol 802.11b card and a Toshiba e740 PDA with built-in Wi-Fi. Neither of them will work from more than about 25 feet away from the device, regardless of the antenna position... I wish I had read the other reviews on this site before buying the unit - the comments about performance are very consistent with what I have experienced. Maybe it would be better with a USR Wireless card in my laptop, but I want to use this network with other devices that have BUILT-IN Wi-Fi antennae (like my PDA and Tablet PC)
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Print Server just to watch, March 16, 2003
By lG2003 (Lisbon, PORTUGAL)
...From the experience I've had the last 2 weeks with this wls router, all I can say is that it's a fine piece of hardware. My house has 60 to 70 square meters in each of the 3 floors. I have a quality signal above 40% at the farest pont in the house from the router (router installed in the 2nd floor). This is a brick/cement walls house. As for the print server, what a mess USR has made!!! This is an SPP peculiar port. I needed to contact with USR support so they could say to me the parallel port specs ("SPP - unidireccional port. does not work with adavnced printer features, like photo settings"). What about an HP Dj520 printer? This is a 1994 model, very SPP compliant (works with an 80286 Olivetti PC!!) and prints garbaje, locks, ejects before time. With a recent HP P1100 I have the same result. Directly connecting the printers to the PC is fine but through print server is a mess!! USR doesn't support Linux, but it works using Macintosh settings ... but not with an HP520 or 1100 printer. List of compatible printers? USR support says "We don't have a list of compatible printers", and "If a printer is not a Winprinter and does not require bidirectional communication, then it should work". If you need the print server, try it with your printer first or look elsewhere! ...
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The worst PC product I ever bought, March 8, 2003
By bctea (Union City, CA USA)
This the worst thing I ever had. The instruction is bad. It only has a "quick" start card with no details on how to setup some basic stuffs like configuring the router. The rest of the manual is in the CD.
The signal range is unacceptable!!!I have a "Wireless" router and adapter pair in my room and my PC adapter keep getting poor signal; if not no signal. My room is not big, the two devices are just 15 ft apart. ... Please avoid it at all cost.
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no better than speedstream 2624, March 2, 2003
By luu vong (bay area, CA United States)
i looked for a wireless router with print server port. so far speedstream 2624 and usr8022 failed my test and expectation. both can work in WEP disable mode. if i'm enable the wep 128. these two start drop signal every 15min. they may work with other speedstream or USR only. for sure they are not work with netgear, ipaq and belkin usb wireless router. avoid at all cost
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Caution Range is limited, February 26, 2003
By Robert Fowler (North Carolina, USA)
The USR8022 router worked in a home network with a laptop using a USR2210 PCMCIA card. However, the range is essentially limited to inside a single room. Moving the laptop outside the room requiring the signal to pass through a single gypsum wall with no insulation slowed down the system but it could still function at lower bandwidths. Moving further away to approximately 25 feet and 2 interior partions resulted in loss of function.USR email help merely tesponded by recommending I purchase additional antennas or repeaters. No general expectation of performance was provided although I requested whether my performance indicated a possible hardware failure. I believe anyone expecting to be able to have a system which allows a laptop to be taken out of a single small room which contains the base station router will be disappointed. This is likely to apply to short walls dividers in small bull pen style offices as well. A further note of caution is that the PCI adapter USR2016 will only function in newer computers meeting the PCI 2.2 specification.
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Great Router, February 16, 2003
By unknown
Easy to set up. very well built and no failures yet.
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This is a good product., December 2, 2002
By Charles Colaco (Maynard, MA USA)
This a good product, it has everything a small office will need, Wireless access point, print server and also Up to twice as fast as standard 802.11b 2.4 GHz products
Works with all 11 Mbps 802.11b wireless products
Four products in one - 22 Mbps wireless access point, router, 2-port Ethernet switch, and print server
Share Internet access across multiple PCs -wirelessly**
Share printers, files, and data
Built-in security protects against hackers
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Great Solid Router, November 30, 2002
By Ben Wong (Mequon, WI USA)
I have been using this router over a month now and it has not given me one single problem in terms of network connection. The wireless range is far much better than the SMC Barricade 7004AWBR. I initially bought the SMC 7004AWBR because it has been out on the market much longer and most people have given thumbs up to it. But it literally keeps locking up on me when I tried to transfer a 120MB file from one computer to another over the wired connection. The U.S. Robotics, however, never gave me one single problem. The setup was fast and painless (like 10 minutes or so) and everything just work. The only slight issue I have with this router is that the printer server does not behave as I expected. If I turn the printer off, the admin screen will show "Device Printer" error and sometimes I have to reset the router. Also, the router only comes with only 2 wired LAN connection, whereas most other ones come with either 3 or 4.
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