you should know about before you buy. Read our review to make an informed purchase!. Linksys Instant Wireless-G Broadband Router Summary Broadcom based 802.11g Router Update 2/1/2004 Wireless bridging support for WAP54G added in Version 2.02.2 firmware....

• -Basic Features

on the unit or its detachable base, and it has fixed position internal antennas. The pluses are that the antennas are dual diversity and that a higher-gain external antenna can be added via an MC type connector. The USB-G54 is based on Broadcom's BCM94333U...

firmware releases between now and a stable, standards-compatible product. What was disturbing, however, is that although Linksys starting shipping their products based on later Broadcom firmware than BuffaloTech, they still had significant draft-802.11g...

the "enhanced" 802.11g wars. It's based on Broadcom's "Afterburner" technology, which Linksys says "increases wireless network performance by up to 35%". Since this is my first review of an "Afterburner"-based product, I'll look at this claim pretty closely...

• -Internal details

was one of the first MIMO routers and the original model I had for test is based on a Broadcom BCM4704 processor. It's essentially the same as the Linksys WRT54GX, which was also among the routers tested. The 10/100 switching capability is provided via a Broadcom...

for prime time? Read our review and judge for yourself! . Like its single-band sibling, the 55AG is based on Broadcom's BCM4702 Wireless Network Processor, but uses a Broadcom BCM5325 5 port switch/PHY instead of the an ADMtek 6996 used in the WRT54G. It...

Getting Ready to Test. atheros super. As I described in my Comdex coverage, the short story is that Broadcom is asserting that Atheros' Super-G based products will interfere with neighboring 802.11b and g networks, severely limiting their speed and, in some...

pretty heavy load testing, with some surprising results.... You'll note from the table that products based on Broadcom and Atheros chipsets are equally represented, but that there aren't any products based on Agere Systems, Conexant PRISM, TI, Marvell, Inprocomm,...