Product Description

RANGE MAX WIRELESS USB 2.0 ADAPTER 108MBPS UK

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #12440 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: NetGear
• Model: WPN111
• Released on: 2005-03-08
• Platform: Windows
• Dimensions: .0" h x .0" w x .0" l, .7 pounds

Features

• Netgear 108Mbps Wireless USB 2.0 Adaptor

Manufacturer's Description
Staying wirelessly connected in your home or office can be tricky, especially as your environment continually changes. For example someone with a cordless phone might walk between your primary wireless signal and your computer or a microwave oven might click on. This interference can cause a drop in wireless data speed or drop out altogether.

The WPN824 RangeMax Wireless Router adjusts to interference and the physical barriers in your home to deliver up to 500,000 square feet of coverage. This means that with a WPN111 Wireless USB Adapter inserted, your computer or laptop will not be prone to loss of wireless speed or dropouts - ensuring continual high speed Internet and network access anywhere in your home or office.

By easily setting up WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy) encryption or WPA-PSK (Wi-Fi Protected Access, Pre-Shared Key) security on your WPN824 router and WPN111 USB wireless adapter your computer or laptop will be well protected. These security features and the Firewall built into the WPN824 router add powerful safeguards against unauthorised usage.

NETGEAR's Smart Wizard makes the set-up of the RangeMax wireless USB 2.0 Adapter easy and hassle-free.

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Customer Reviews

Don't install the buggy netgear software supplied!!!
I was having all sorts of problems with this device when I first got it. I had followed the instructions and installed the Netgear wireless software before connecting the USB dongle. The connection was dropping all the time, it couldn't cope with encryption, it was just a mess. I tried the upgrade patch, even worse if anything. The I uninstalled the netgear software and decided just to plug the USB dongle in - windows accessed the CD-ROM for the necessary .inf and drivers, and then it ran using the Windows Zero Configuration (i.e. Windows manages the wireless connection). I had actually been asking the netgear software to do this before when I installed the CD-ROM, but it ignored me and carried on making the netgear software managed the connection. So my advice would be if you want this to work:

a) Put the CD ROM in for the drivers
b) connect the USB Adapter
c) let windows find the driver on the CD-ROM and install
d) Use windows to manage the device - NOT buggy netgear software

I emailed tech support about this and they weren't any help, so hopefully anyone with problems with this might find the above solution handy.

What a nightmare...
I'd advise avoiding this adapter... I bought it because I thought it would work well with my Netgear router (which I'm happy with), but it's turned out to be a real lemon. I get loads of blue-screen freezes and the connection drops multiple times each day. I thought perhaps Netgear would be aware of this and have a solution, but googling the model number, I soon learned that many people were reporting the same problem and that Netgear didn't appear to be doing anything about it. The suggestion seems to be that the problem is with the firmware but that Netgear themselves can't do anything about it and the original provider of the firmware isn't coming up with a solution. So perhaps not Netgear's fault, but I'd still avoid this piece of kit.

WPN111 is pants!
I got a couple of these about a year ago, mainly because I have a Netgear Rangemax wireless cable router. You would think (well I did) that these two would be perfect for each other.

I've had problems after problems with these nasty little things. I know my way around computers and stuff reasonably well, but they have defeated me to get them to work without problems. You often have to disconnect them and reconnect to get them to work. They drop out when they feel like it, without any obvious reasons. I ended up using a cheap one I got from a computer fair and that works perfectly. The Netgear router is great, the WPN111 is a disgrace to the Netgear name. Overpriced and unreliable. AVOID IT!!