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Its not the best you can buy for this price, but still a very decently priced AP. The configuration is pretty straight forward and its well documented as well.
This baby has serious range. But easy to you if you should be using it. Also it is so much more secure than a regular 4 port wireless router. So I bought this AP, a Linksys VPN firewall Router, and an 8-port switch. Secure, safe, and awesome.
I wanted to secure my network more and have more LAN ports, but still have wifi. Worked flawlessy. I would go get the mail (our driveway is about 1/4 mile, and my iPhone would still be connected to the wifi this thing puts out. Not for the technically challenged. I had a home office and a Linksys WRT54g router.
Had the AP, the switch, my printer, and NAS plugged into the VPN Router, and my computers to the Switch. You can assigned the IP for it, which will be the gateway for the devices connected.
great price and a great product. it provides excellent reception throughout the house and yard.
I'm not using the POE support, because the range on this AP is good enough to allow it to sit in our phone room and cover the entire floor. Overall, this product feels like it's benefited from the Cisco influence, unlike some of Linksys' other recent efforts. The unit has never requiring a restart since I installed it. I was fully expecting problems deploying this somewhat bleading-edge feature, but so far it's worked perfectly (aside from the hassles associated with Microsoft's poor group policy support for WPA2 in XP Pro). I was pleasantly surprised that it has support for multiple SSIDs with tagged VLAN support (useful for creating a "guest" network for visitors, as well as a separate secure internal network). I bought this product to provide secure wireless services to our company network. It supports WPA2-Enterprise, which I'm using together with Windows Server 2003 IAS to allow domain users to be authenticated to the network using their windows login automatically. The physical hardware seems well made also.
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