Joseph Moran

Model: WRT55AG Price: $299 Rating: 4 out of 5 Features Performance Who says you can’t have your cake and eat it too? The newest broadband router from Linksys certainly suggests you can. The Linksys Dual-Band Wireless A+G Broadband Router (WRT55AG) one of many products coming down the pike which supports dual-band– or tri-mode, if you […]

Linksys Dual-Band Wireless A+G Notebook Adapter Model: WPC55AG Price: $99 Rating: 4 out of 5 Netgear Dual Band Wireless PC Card Model: WAG511 Price: $99 Rating: 4 out of 5 What has lots of letters and helps people to communicate? If you answered "the Post Office," you’re right, but it’s also an apt description of […]

Model: WG602 Price: $139 MSRP Rating: 4 out of 5 FeaturesPerformance The Netgear 54 Mbps Wireless Access Point (WG602) is the company’s recent offering in the category of stand-alone 802.11g access points. It distinguishes itself with its small size, and excellent software tools that facilitate setup and configuration of the unit. The WG602 uses the […]

Model: DWL-800AP+ Price: $99 Rating: 4 out of 5 Features Performance One of the frequent challenges encountered when setting up a WLAN is limited range and the resultant dead spots where the wireless signal can’t reach. You needn’t live in a mansion to have this problem — depending on the configuration of and materials used […]

Model: AWN-8060 Price: $109.99 Rating: 3 out of 5 Features Performance If you’re like me, hearing the same Adaptec conjures up images of all things SCSI. Of course, that’s the company’s first and best-known line of business, but they’ve gotten involved in a number of other areas over the years, all of them dealing data […]

Model: WRT54G Price: $149 MSRP Rating: 3 out of 5 Features Performance At $149, the Linksys Wireless-G Broadband Router WRT54G is probably one of the least expensive 802.11g-based routers around. Indeed, the router sells for the same price as the related WAP54G Wireless-G Access Point. The WRT54G can function as a DHCP server– no news […]

Linksys Wireless-G Notebook Adapter Model: WPC54G Price: $99 MSRP Rating: 5 out of 5 Linksys Wireless-G PCI Adapter Model: WMP54G Price: $99 MSRP Rating: 5 out of 5 If you’ve seen one 802.11g card, you’ve seen them all, right? Perhaps. While it’s true that most WLAN cards are more alike than different, that doesn’t mean […]

Model: WAP54G Price: $149 Rating: 5 out of 5 Features Performance The $149 Linksys Wireless-G Access Point is the market leader’s offering in the burgeoning market for products based on the still-draft 802.11g specification. Like the Buffalo AirStation and Apple AirPort Extreme Base Station routers I recently looked at, the Linksys Wireless-G Access Point uses […]

Model: DWL-J Price: $129.99 Rating: 3 out of 5 Features Performance When you think of Mitsumi Electronics — if you think of them at all — your thoughts probably turn to minor peripherals like keyboards, mice, and floppy drives, perhaps to CD-ROM drives. The company would like you to know that it is now a […]

I have a confession to make. I’ve been involved with computers for a couple of decades now, and for all that time was firmly in the "PC" camp. It’s not that I didn’t like Macs–just that they really weren’t for me. I think I may have found one that is: The 12-inch PowerBook G4. This […]

Model: M8799LL/A Price: $249 MSRP with antenna port/modem, $199 without Rating: 3 out of 5FeaturesPerformance The Apple AirPort Extreme Base Station Modem+Broadband edition sports a WAN port, a LAN port, a USB port for the built-print server, a connector for an external antenna, and an integrated V.90 modem (as opposed to just a serial port […]

Model: WET11 Price: $115 Rating: 5 out of 5 Features Performance If you want to connect a device to a wireless network with a minimum of effort, a wireless Ethernet bridge like the Linksys Instant Wireless Ethernet Bridge WET11 is probably the quickest and easiest way to do it. The little, blue WET11 can be […]