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Connect your USB-equipped desktop or notebook computer to a wireless network at incredible speeds with the Linksys Wireless-G USB Network Adapter. By incorporating two new, blazing fast technologies - USB 2.0 and Wireless-G - the Adapter delivers data rates up to 54Mbps (5 times as fast as 802.11b), without the trouble of opening up the case of your desktop computer.
Pros: It works decent when it works.
Cons: The average unit life appears to be about a year. Reliability degrades over time and the units eventually die.
Overall Review: We have about a dozen of these in our office. The first few we bought seemed to work great, so we bought this same model for the rest of the office. A few of the additional units we bought would have issues either loosing their connection to the router, or the computer would loose its connection to wireless adapter. This would happen hourly for some of the adapters. Four or five of the units have completely died after about a year. I am still trying alternatives to see if there is something better on the market. Why is it that there is an endless variety of mediocre to super cheap products for this purpose, but nobody makes a bulletproof Cadillac model for a higher cost? I would rather have a piece of hardware I can plug in and forget about than something I am constantly troubleshooting and then having to replace in a year.