KINAMAX NT-USB20 USB 2.0 to RJ45 Fast Ethernet 10/100 Base-T Network Adapter

Pros: According to the pictures and everyone elses review, I'm guessing Nintendo may have forced KINIMAX to change the product soon after finding it compatible to the Wii. Fortunately for me, I was able to purchase the old version which IS Wii compatible and it works great.

Cons: Sorry to hear that everyone else got shafted with the non-branded, non-wii compatible one... Hopefully you can find it online somewhere else.

Overall Review: If this new, non-branded version is indeed not wii-compatible, consider this a warning to potential buyers for purposes of wiithernet use. The Wii compatible one comes in a circular, plastic, black and red packaging if that helps...

Pros: Pretty nice so far. Does what it says and is actually faster than I expected. It was a cheap solution to my laptop's dead ethernet card and it worked great.

Cons: It's just a little bit bulky I think but I guess there really isn't that much to do to avoid that with this kind of device.

Overall Review: Deff the best bang for your buck I was thinking about buying a gigabit adapter because I use the laptop at work everyday that I was buying this adapter for and I work on a gigabit network at my office. Then I remembered that the max transfer rate for USB 2.0 is 480mbps and obviously it would not be able to even produce a 1000mbps connection. Sneaky hardware companies don't think you will ever think about little stuff like that. Just buy this adapter, it's easy, it's convenient, it's cheap and it works great.

Pros: Cheap?

Cons: 2 of these failed within 3 weeks of use. The first one stopped being recognized in the list of USB devices. On the second one, the blue internal LED that normally shows activity started blinking nonstop whenever an Ethernet cable was plugged in. In both cases, I swapped it out with a new unit to resolve the problem.

Pros: Laptop NIC died. Installed this for an emergency on XP, worked right away after installing software from disk. Perfect!

Cons: Not 1000MB? It does extend from laptop quite a bit. Only improvement I could suggest would be to change it from one plastic piece to a USB plug/wire/port so that it hangs down instead of sticks out. I'm being picky.

Overall Review: May not even get my laptop NIC fixed. I don't use it that often. Only when wired is necessary or more convenient that wireless.

Pros: Pluged it in, pointed XP at the driver cd, and it's working. Great if you want to add a NIC to you work PC but aren't allowed to add internal hardware.

Cons: While the construction is solid, it could break if the cable pulls it the wrong way. I tied a cable tie around it and some other cables to support it.

Pros: Small, cheap, USB to Ethernet. I used it to connect an old laptop with no previous networking abilities to my home network.

Cons: It's still working so far, so none I guess. ;)

Pros: Works with wii, works with whatever else youre going to use. allows you to have your wii connected to the internet at all times and is faster than wireless.

Cons: a tiny bit big.

Overall Review: If you cant wait for the official Nintendo one get this. There is no way for Nintendo to block this because it is external hardware.

Pros: Works beautifully on Linux. Didn't try it on Windows, but other reviewers can help with that.

Cons: As others have mentioned, this is only a USB 1.1 device (even on a USB 2.0 port). I didn't particularly need the extra speed, but it is something to take into account.

Overall Review: It's cheap and it allows you to get DSL/Cable on a machine that would normally only have dialup. If you need more than 10 Mbps (Comcast high speed or FiOS), you'll want a better adapter. Although, if you have the money to afford those, you can probably afford a more recent computer that has onboard Ethernet or a PCI card with true 10/100(/1000).