Linksys WGA600N - Epic Trouble
I bought this router because I wanted to speed up my Xbox 360 Live playing of one of my favorite games - Call of Duty 4.It has several problems:
1. To install, you need to call Technical Support. The installation disk is completely useless. You may as well shoot yourself in the head if you expect it to work outside of the box.
2. Every operator I've spoken with at Linksys was probably born in Asia. This is not a bad thing, but expect some heavy accents and peculiarly spotty connections when you call them. Also, they don't seem to pay much attention to your actual problem. Expect to be on hold for random periods of between 5 and 15 minutes while the Technician reads manga or the Bollywood Informer. Plan on being on hold 2-7 times.
3. There is no such thing as Plug and Play when it comes to things like this. You will submit.
4. Once you get it hooked up, it will probably fail the XBox Live Network Tests. Not to worry, for some reason, it will sign you in just fine. Gameplay is vastly improved, but good luck having Tech Support get your Network Tests to work. It will fail DNS. It will fail MTU. It will fail ICMP. There will be no explanation as to why. This simply is.
5. Linksys will tell you to call Xbox, which will tell you to call Linksys. Linksys will tell you to call Xbox again. 15% of the time, Linksys will tell you to call D-link (your router company). D-link will tell you Linksys is high. Linksys will tell you they teabagged D-Link's girlfriend. Xbox will snicker wickedly in the corner.
5. If you want it to connect in the N signal (which is way faster than the typical G signal), good luck, you snivelling moron. You will submit to playing in the G signal. Submit ... bitch! Submit!
6. You will gain a level in Networking & Communications, making you a 9th level War Driver with a + 3 laptop and a magic Headset of Achiness.
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2 comments:
Would you say that this connection is better than just hooking up the Xbox through a wired connection?
No, the connection on a wireless connection is notably slower. The fastest I've managed to get this to work is somewhere around 54 MB/sec. A wired connection (in the same G signal) would run around 100MB+/sec.
Supposedly, this adapter should work in the N signal (which would offer a 108MB/sec. wireless connection or a whopping 1 GB/sec. if I had it wired with an appropriate N card in my desktop computer). I have not been able to get the adapter to run in N, though.
Your best bet is always to be wired, but I don't have that option, since TV and office are in two different parts of the home.
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