Product Description

WLS-G RTR W/ 2 PHONE PTS

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Product Details

Hardware Platform	PC
Publisher	Linksys
Features	WLS-G RTR W/ 2 PHONE PTS
Data Link Protocol	Ethernet Fast Ethernet IEEE 802.11b IEEE 802.11g
EAN	0745883564927
MPN	WRTP54G-NA
Brand	Cisco
UPC	745883564927
Label	Linksys
Studio	Linksys
Title	Linksys Wireless-G Broadband Router with 2 Phone Ports WRTP54G - Wireless router + 4-port switch - VoIP phone adapter - Ethernet, Fast Ethernet, 802.11b, 802.11g - external
Warranty	3 years warranty
Model	With 2 Phone Ports WRTP54G
Form Factor	External
Manufacturer	Linksys

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Customer Reviews

5 years and counting

Review by S. Schwartz, 2010-08-19

I bought this device in November, 2005 and it has worked flawlessly since. The only problem I have had, except for lousy customer service from my cable provider, is the power supply wore out, in August 2010, and I had to get a new one. It is external and took about 5 seconds to swap.

I have it set up to be a wireless access point, hidden SSID, mac address filtering, WPA2, AES. All of this took about 5 minutes. I have never had a problem with the settings getting lost and it always works. I connect to it with 2 iPhones, a MAC laptop and three PC laptops. It takes a minute to add the new mac addresses, but after that no problem. I have access in every room in my house.

I also have 2 hard wired computers using the switch and I use VOIP. I have used VOIP for 5 years and have been without phone service for about a week in that time. It had nothing to do with my devices, by cable provider was out in the whole neighborhood, but it wasn't a system outage, according to them.

Downloads work fine, printing works fine through it. Speed is fine.

I can't think of a better device to have.

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Utter garbage

Review by F. Silva, 2009-11-28

This is the third Linksys router I've owed in less than five year. I'm shopping for another make now. These pieces of garbage fry within a year, they disconnect your connection from the internet for no reason, even after several attempts at resetting. The connecting ports are just too cheap to maintain contact with the motherboard. And my units are left in cool, dark places, with no movement, no static to fry them. Customer service? You must be joking. This company needs to close and stop selling products and ripping people off. One star is TOO generous

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Doesn't Support WPA2 or AES

Review by BargainHunter, 2009-02-20

I bought the WRTP54G (v1) VoIP router at my local department store--not for VoIP but because I needed a new wireless G router and it was on clearance at a really good price. Because I wasn't using it for VoIP, I cannot comment on how well that feature works; however, as a wireless router, I'm a bit disappointed from a security perspective. It only supports up to WPA with TKIP (not WPA2 or AES). As far as I was able to determine, there are no firmware updates available for it--at least not through LinkSys. Also, you are supposed to be able to SysLog from it (in some manner), but I was unable to get that to really work using LinkSys' LogViewer. (Did not try it with something like Kiwi.)

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Works great

Review by J. Behar, 2008-05-03

I had to post this review when I read the other 2 bad reviews. This device seemed shoddy as well, i.e. I had to reboot it sometimes several times a day to get it to work, until I realized that it wasn't the device's fault at all. It was the lousy recycled cable modem that the Time Warner provided me. I confirmed this with a few tech support calls and Time Warner replaced the modem (they're fault so I didn't have to pay extra for the service call.) After that my Linksys WRTP54G router has been 100% perfect. In fact, it does static IP w/ Port forwarding (unlike the D-Link) which is essential for the fastest peer-to-peer downloads if you like downloading from multiple computers wirelessly. And who cares if the router has firewall or not. Your PC already has one that works fine. I highly recommend this Linksys WRTP54G.

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Bust product

Review by Datercon, 2008-04-26

Don't put this "dog" (sorry to insult my canine friends) near Vonage. Your VOIP experience will become a living hell. Go with the (only somewhat less terrible alternative) from Vonage (DLink router)

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