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Sarah
Reviewed in the United States on January 4, 2025
This took me much longer to setup because I was not using internet Explorer.Windows 11 users must use internet Explorer, not edge, chrome, or another browser. New firmware fixes this, but this should be addressed prior to shipping.
Cliente
Reviewed in Mexico on January 20, 2025
Todo bien
DavidK
Reviewed in the United States on November 15, 2024
Was switching providers from cable wifi to 5G Home wireless internet and needed to place the router in a different room from my VOIP office phone line that required ethernet hard wire connection. Was a little worried about making the WPS connection with the 5G router but turned out be very easy. Within minutes I'm full strength dial tone and able to use the voip office phone with the wireless internet signal. I always thought I needed to plug the phone into the router - but now I'm free to move the phone anywhere!!
deepthinker73
Reviewed in the United States on October 5, 2024
Not only were some previous reviews correct, the product gets SUPER HOT to the touch, but the connectivity is the main problem. I set this thing up 3 ft away from my router and although it does connect to my WiFi and showed a connection, no matter what device I tried none could get a DHCP I.P. address and be able to communicate through it at all even after multiple troubleshooting attempts and I’m not a tech newb. Even if it adds another signal to your home, you’d better off with a WiFi extender that has a physical Ethernet port for JUST THAT ONE WIRED ONLY DEVICE, which is the only reason I bought this product.I bought this to connect for a device that monitors and sends data for my solar panels that is “wired only” and uses DHCP, but needed to move my router for various reasons, but that wired device had to stay within 50 feet of the outside inverter to be able to communicate. Well this product is DEFINITELY NOT the solution.
Ken
Reviewed in the United States on December 5, 2023
Initially when I obtained my Tivo Premier Series 4 DVR, I relied on the TiVo AGO100 WiFi to USB adapter. It was slow and became useless when streaming came onto the scene. Probably because it interfaces with a USB 2 port. I then upgraded the TiVo Internet service to utilize a Lincsys (Cisco) PLE500 power line Ethernet adapter. One adapter was connected to an Asus RT-N66 router via Ethernet and the other adapter connected to the Tivo also via Ethernet. Since I have two TiVo’s, a total of three power line adapters were needed. Eventually I noticed that the Lincsys PLE500 power line Ethernet adapters started slowing down after about three years in service. I then replaced them with spares I had on hand and with that the speed was restored. I not sure how long the PLE500’s would be available.I started to investigate WiFi to Ethernet adapters and tried a TP-Link RE105, it did not work very well, it kept interfering with the other devices on the network. It could be that it’s a range extender and there isn’t a way to disable it.It became very difficult to find a driverless WiFi to Ethernet adapter until I stumbled upon the IOGear GWU637. The setup was very easy, just plug it into the Ethernet port on the PC, follow the instructions to access your wireless network. Be sure to turn off the WiFi on the PC while configuring the GWU637. I use wireless MAC address filtering on my router for extra security and the GWU637 has the WiFi MAC address printed on the side of the device near the serial number, that’s a plus. After configuration, I then connected the device to the USB port for power and the Ethernet port on the TiVo Series 4 DVR. Next I checked the Settings > Network > View network status and Voilà it showed the Wired Ethernet adapter MAC ID. I then checked the Client List on the router it showed the GWU637 connected to the TiVo with max bars. Incidentally, the TiVo is about 75 feet from the router. That evening when I went to a streaming service, the selection process was faster and the show I selected streamed flawlessly.I tend to be very stingy giving a product 5 stars, but the IOGear GWU637 deserves it. I’m impressed!
V
Reviewed in Sweden on June 14, 2022
Takes 2 minutes from unboxing to full ready
Lincassable
Reviewed in France on August 19, 2020
Facile a installer avec un PC pour configurer l'appareil.RAS sur le fonctionnement pour connecter une TV sur une BOX en WIFI.
bertilight
Reviewed in Germany on July 22, 2020
Funktioniert einwandfrei bei der Einbindung in das WLan-Netz. Die Beschreibung ist aureichend und gut verständlich.
Lazyone
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 12, 2019
It works but the documentation needs to thoroughly touch all aspects of setup, else non-technical users will think it does not work.
Steve Graham
Reviewed in the United States on September 22, 2017
I rarely rate products as five star. This one earned that rating.I have been struggling for about a week to find a good solution for a recent switch from Frontier FIOS to Spectrum Cable. Frontier allowed and enabled Moca, which allows networked devices to use the Cable as the network delivery medium. We use Tivo cable tuners and DVRs, which have to have access to the network to communicate with one another. One room out of five in my home that had a TV in it, did not have a network jack. I was using the Moca on cable to fill that gap. That went away when I switched over to Spectrum.I tried a couple of really nice wireless network adaptors, but both of the others that I tried created subnets for the device they were meant to service. This puts those devices on a separate network that passes internet through your main network. This did not work for the Tivo network tuners as they rely on all of their devices being in the same subnet. They apparently cannot be manually configured to find the other Tivo's using network addressing for the other boxes. So this remote box ended up isolated. I had to have something easy to use and configure that would give me an ethernet port that was on the same subnet, and act as a true bridge device. This unit did that, and was so easy to use that I wish I had tried it first.It is worth noting that this is a Tivo Mini, which relies on the network to watch everything, as when watching TV it uses the tuner built into a Tivo DVR in another machine. It has to have a high speed network to support streaming the TV shows, or to use any Internet based video service. This is also a high def TV, so its bandwidth requirements are high.Setup was very easy, just plug it into the network port of a pc, follow the instructions to hook it into your wireless network, and you are done. The range for me is about 50 feet. No issues with that at all. I plugged the configured unit into my remote Tivo, ta da, it worked! And it worked flawlessly.I do wish it had 5G wireless and not just 2.5G. That would allow for faster communication with my other Tivos. But it does support Wireless N, and that really does help a lot. My wife, who uses this Tivo tuner, really didn't notice any lowering of the network rate, and I was able to get somewhere in the neighborhood of 50mbs to 100mbs. So certainly no slacker even with 25G wireless.My home network is all GigE (1000mps), so I still want to get a network jack installed in that room. But this will bridge the gap really nicely until I can arrange to have that done.
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