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I turned off Silverlight and was able to configure it normally. The only gotcha is that it cannot be configured with a connectiin to a machine that is using MS Silverlight. This is an excellent product for turning a wired ethernet port into a wireless port. I have used them for networking printers and for connecting a Linux machine that wouldn't work with USB wireless adapters. The only way I was able to figure this out was to find a reference to another D-Link device on their website that said it wouldn't configure with Silverlight.
It works fine. I purchased this item to tie into my Direct Tv DVr to beta their On Demand Service. a little convoluted to set up but once it was set up at my PC , I moved it to the TV and it worked great.
This device fails the wife test. Don't think it was onsale when I bought it. Did have to upgrade the G820 firmware to 2.20 to get the thing to work. I believe not all versions of the Linksys adapter support WPA. The small size makes the G820 a perfect fit and the throughput is fine.
Everything else on the network is Linksys but the form factor and WPA encryption made this device an attractive choice. Took me about a hour to get everything working together. My wife just connected a new HP printer to the network, as a novice she would not have been able to hook up the D-Link without help. Given the ongoing price drops with electronics I am surprised the adapter has gone up in price here at Amazon since I bought it. Bought adapter to attached my DirecTV DVR to my network.
According to the documentation if I was on a fully D-Link system configuration would be automatic, can not vouch for that. For me it does not run particularly hot and has been stable since being installed a week ago.
it is always connected to my router and delivers great speed. i have had this product for almost a month now and i have had zero problems with it. when playing Call Of Duty 4 i always have a full signal.
Even though the D-Link website claims it does, after getting bounced around their tech support line for an hour a 2nd level person told me it does not actually support that recommended that I run the less secure TKIP cipher. Guess I will give the Linksys a try. The device seems easy enough to set up, but I returned it within hours after discovering that it does not support AES as a cipher with WPA-PSK. nice.
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