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I thought I'd be safe buying Microsoft..I was wrong

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 6
Date: February 21, 2004
Author: Amazon User

the router did not work correctly from the start. Approximately an hour after installing it, connected to a Microsoft USD Adapter M510, it quit all-together. I immediately called Microsoft Product Support. What a waste of time. After going through getting a case number I was eventually connected to a "router expert". The gentleman was very courteous but, unfortunately, had an extremely thick accent and I had some difficulty understanding him. (Another American job gone overseas) We spent almost an hour of my running between the base station (where the router was) and the slave (where the adapter was) Suddenly the telephone connection to support went dead. I had used up the power in my portable telephone. After a reasonable interval I received a call back from support and we continued to work on the problem. Unfortunately, with no success. The line went dead again. This time, at no fault of my own. There was no call back. I called support again and using my case number got a new gentleman, with less of an accent. We had to go through the entire procedure again and again, no success. After about two hours with the "router experts" I was told it was Microsoft XP that was the culprit and he asked me to hold on to be transferred to a "XP Expert"...he never came back. Nor did I. I chucked the router and adapter, drilled a hole through my wall and hooked up to a replacement wired router. (not microsoft's). All is well now.

Doesn't work well with PPP networks!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 6
Date: December 09, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I do consider myself tech savvy, and yet spent an unsuccessful 5 hours diagnosing why it wouldn't play well with a PPPoE DSL account. Finally gave up and will have to bite the bullet on Comp USA's crappy 15% restocking fee.

Perhaps an option NOT to use the "Wizard"? Microsoft, are you listening? Putting stickers everywhere to "MAKE SURE YOU INSTALL THE SOFTWARE FIRST" is a real turn off!

Get anything but this one

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 10
Date: March 22, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Man does this router really suck, tried to set this up for a friend and the first one was defective, ok maybe i just got unlucky, so he returns it.
Then we get everything running on the 2nd one, no problem, after installing the software for 30mins.
Then all of a sudden it just stops working so we go into the settings and the base station isnt even showing up.
Long story short go with a linksys, had it up and running in 2 minutes, the guy i was installing it for was like thats it? dont we have to go through some long installation process?

Quality Router

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: October 11, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I've had this router for some time now and I really like it. I'm not generally a Microsoft guy, but they have done a really nice job engineering a quality router. I would recommend this router over all others.

Buyer Beware!!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: June 11, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I bought this from Costco because its was only $40 for a Wireless G router and it was from Microsoft.

I am now going to return it because it is just an awful router. Not only is the signal reception poor, but my connection on the wired port gets dropped all the time! Yes I have all the driver updates etc. Come on, WIRED port experiences this problem!

I read on CNET from people experiencing the same problems. What will happen is you will encounter periods (lasting from 3-10 minutes) where you just get no Internet connection. It is sooo annoying.

Let me tell you, if you play any type of online games.. dont even consider this router. Like me you will probably be doing well in your game.. then BAM! Out of no where you get disconnected and you die, have to reconnect, or whatever. If you dont care about having a continuous connection, I still wouldnt recommend this. Just go for another product from Linksys or something; you probably could get something for around the same price.

I will say that setting it up wasnt too difficult, although I dont like the fact that I have to install a bunch of MSFT software to make it work. Simple software interface, but unfortunately the thing doesnt work well so this time the nice GUI doesnt help!

Excellent product, more excellent price

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: November 24, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Since these have been discontinued, it may be moot to recommend it, but you can find them on the clearance sites and refurb dumpers. I've had mine for about 3 months, smoothest hardware installation I've had in years, and has run like a champ since. I've had ZERO problems related to the router. As always, if your machine isn't maintained well or you run buggy software (warez, cracked, etc.) all bets are off.

Stay away from this product

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: January 19, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I purchased it one month ago. I connected to Internet using a DSL ethernet modem D-Link DSL-300 T. After a couple of weeks it froze. I was hardly able to make it work again and then, after few days frozen again. I relied upon Microsoft, but i read MN 700 comments only AFTER I purchased it: big mistake.

Microsoft Wireless LAN

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: December 05, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Although I've worked in the computer industry for 30 years, I just recently stepped up to broadband and a home wireless network. I bought microsoft's MN-700, 802.11g wireless base & MN-720, 802.11g PCMCIA notebook adapter. In about a hour (including a large ... 14MB ... firmware update) I was up and running. Simple to install and operate. Couldn't be happier. I'm not going to "stress" test it, but for printer/files/broadband acess sharing, it's great. The reasonable price and great security are addtional bonuses. I highly recommend the product.

If you are smart pick anything else

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 7
Date: September 07, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I have had this router for 5 months and every week I kick myself for not buying a replacement the week before. I have seen other complaints that are the same issues that I am having, dropped connections, having to unplug the unit wait plug it back in check to see if the wireless is working...it's not...repeat. You can unplug the unit then plug it back in and it will reboot but the unit will tell you, by the ready light, that the wireless is not up. ...it tells you it is broke.... most of the time the "it's broke" feature is broke. I would not buy anything that breaks so often that it needs a broke indicator.

STAY AWAY FROM THIS PRODUCT

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 8
Date: December 21, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Microsoft does NOT make this or any other router product anymore. I bought this and it only worked for 2 minutes. I had to go thru hoops to get my money back. Go with LinkSys.

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