Hawking Wireless-G HWUR54G Repeater

The HWUR54G effectively doubles the operating distance of your entire wireless network. Whether its an area in your home that has limited or no wireless coverage or a warehouse in your office, the Hawking Wireless-G Range Extender takes the signal from your wireless access point and retransmits it at a higher rate. The Hawking Wireless-G Range Extender is placed halfway between your Wireless Access Point and wireless trouble spot. The HWUR54G is the ONLY wireless repeater on the market that supports ALL wireless 802.11b/g networks so you never have to worry whether the wireless network you have at your home or office will work with the Range Extender. The Range Extender will Extend ANY 802.11b/g network. The HWUR54G also features a Hassle Free installation. All you have to do is enter in the ID of your wireless network and you're ready to go!

Stay away if you have Netgear. Otherwise check compatibility before...

Pros: Small, pretty, not too expensive.
Cons: Does not work with Netgear. May not work at all. Misleading advertising.
We have a six computer wireless network over three floors - all Dell - all XP. The signal has always been ok - no complaints. However, we got a Tivo Series 2 which allows us to use the network to transmit Tivo ' ed programs to the main computer where they...

Beware - this product gives you a 2nd SSID

This extender ends up as a SECOND wireless network, with a different SSID than the network you're extending. This wasn't obvious (at least to me) from either the product descriptions or the the documentation. Hawking should be more clear - it's as simple as stating "this product works by creating another wireless network in your home, and that network has a different SSID". Why does this matter? Because I am unable to get either my laptop, running Windows XP Pro, or my PDA, running Windows Mobile 2003, to smoothly transition from one network to another when moved about the house. In both cases manual intervention is required, and in the case of the PDA I actually have to delete the network settings I don't want to connect to and add new settings for the one I do. Perhaps there's a better way to configure these devices, but I haven't found it. If you end up connecting only to the extender you should be fine, but I find that if I'm too close to either the WAP or the extender, I have to connect to a different SSID for reliable communications.