Universal Ethernet to Wi-Fi N Adapter - Speeds of up to 300Mbps on 2.4GHz - Push-button Wi-Fi Protected Setup (WPS) - Supports WEP, WPA, WPA2, TKIP and AES encryption - GWU637

I rarely rate products as five star. This one earned that rating. I have been struggling for about a week to find a good solution for a recent switch from Frontier FIOS to Spectrum Cable. Frontier allowed and enabled Moca, which allows networked devices to use the Cable as the network delivery medium. We use Tivo cable tuners and DVRs, which have to have access to the network to communicate with one another. One room out of five in my home that had a TV in it, did not have a network jack. I was using the Moca on cable to fill that gap. That went away when I switched over to Spectrum. I tried a couple of really nice wireless network adaptors, but both of the others that I tried created subnets for the device they were meant to service. This puts those devices on a separate network that passes internet through your main network. This did not work for the Tivo network tuners as they rely on all of their devices being in the same subnet. They apparently cannot be manually configured to find the other Tivo's using network addressing for the other boxes. So this remote box ended up isolated. I had to have something easy to use and configure that would give me an ethernet port that was on the same subnet, and act as a true bridge device. This unit did that, and was so easy to use that I wish I had tried it first. It is worth noting that this is a Tivo Mini, which relies on the network to watch everything, as when watching TV it uses the tuner built into a Tivo DVR in another machine. It has to have a high speed network to support streaming the TV shows, or to use any Internet based video service. This is also a high def TV, so its bandwidth requirements are high. Setup was very easy, just plug it into the network port of a pc, follow the instructions to hook it into your wireless network, and you are done. The range for me is about 50 feet. No issues with that at all. I plugged the configured unit into my remote Tivo, ta da, it worked! And it worked flawlessly. I do wish it had 5G wireless and not just 2.5G. That would allow for faster communication with my other Tivos. But it does support Wireless N, and that really does help a lot. My wife, who uses this Tivo tuner, really didn't notice any lowering of the network rate, and I was able to get somewhere in the neighborhood of 50mbs to 100mbs. So certainly no slacker even with 25G wireless. My home network is all GigE (1000mps), so I still want to get a network jack installed in that room. But this will bridge the gap really nicely until I can arrange to have that done.

SHORT VERSION: PROS: * Works great!! So far solid connection, no drops * Faster than the Panda usb wireless adapters (see screenshot) * This specific computer (Windows 10) didn't even recognize the Panda USB wireless adapters consistently, so had to move to something else CONS: * Searching for ethernet to wireless, this is the only product I could find, could be a CON if you're looking for choices * Setup is straightforward, but may not be easy. Easy for me since I am in IT. Non-IT, it could be easy, it could require some patience * NOT plug and play, and the manual is a bit hard to read (smaller print). You can probably make your way through it, the screenshots are too small to be helpful * Setup did not work with Chrome, had to switch to IE, so beware of that. Background: We had some Panda USB wireless adapters for our desktops, one is a Dell Optiplex 780, one is a Dell Optiplex 5040. The 780 runs Windows 7. The 780 we upgraded to Windows 10. For some reason the Panda Wireless USB adapters would just not work with Windows 10. Windows 10 would recognize it only randomly, random internet access NO GOOD!!! Tried powerline, got much slower speeds than is practical. So then found this for ethernet to wireless Setup is easy enough for me being an IT person. For non-IT it is straightforward and some people may find it easy, some people may need a bit more patience. The instruction booklet is REALLY hard to read, at least the screenshots. Or else I'm getting old. :) :) Or both So far so good, and will enjoy having my main computer at home not drop internet anymore. Price: could be a pro or a con, it definitely is pricier than most usb to wireless adapters, enjoying that I can plug the ethernet cable right in Lastly: Requires USB for power (whether your computer or an outlet) So far so good!!!!

If you need to connect an ethernet device that doesn't have Wifi, this adapter seems to do it fairly simply/reliably. I had problems with other brands that offered all kinds of different operating modes -- but found that re-connects after power cycling was very slow and haphazard at best. This product (at least for me) has worked quite reliably -- but don't expect all kinds of hotspot or multi-connection options. The included instructions were a bit complicated but since it has a WPS button and my router also accepts WPS connections I found that it was easiest to just ignore the Mfg instructions instead.

I have a pretty nice "office" set up in my bedroom... big desk, dual monitors and plenty of space for my office phone and desk supplies etc... but I haven't used it once in the 2 years I've been working from home. Instead I work from the living room couch, because I have an internet phone that isn't WiFi capable, ethernet only, and our cable outlet is in the living room. It's terrible for my back, it's distracting (tv, my fiance, cats... lol) all I have for surface space is an awkward side table and my laptop is just that... on my lap, which is bad for it AND for me. I figured I had 2 options: Pay $600 for the Wi-Fi adapter that is made for this particular phone or get an extremely long ethernet cord to run through the entire apartment, into my bedroom. Neither option was appealing enough to do. Then I ordered this device. I had low expectations, nothing seems to work with this phone. I purposely ordered from Amazon because I thought it probably wouldn't work and I'd have to return it. I followed the very simple instructions to connect the device to my WiFi, plugged it into the ethernet port of my phone and boom: it worked! Affordable, effortless setup AND it really works? I know... shocking right. Definitely recommend if you need to use an Ethernet device in a place you otherwise cant!

Purchased GWU637 to connect an Ethernet-only device (through wireless) across a room to a D-Link DIR-890L tri-band router. The device could "see" the D-Link fine in the site survey (line of site, 50' away within a commercial shop). Every attempt made to connect was fruitless. The device provides absolutely no diagnostics when it cannot connect. No logs, no feedback, nothing at all. I contacted support through email and provided details with hopes of receiving some troubleshooting help. I had a very disappointing experience. The screenshot sent in was lost it seems by their ticketing system (they never mentioned that despite my reference to it), they dismissed my router as unsupported because I referred to it an "access point", and finally, they simply said this: "If it continues to state "NOT ACTIVE" then there could be some hardware incompatibility. " Again, I provided the brand and model of the wifi router and re-shared the screenshot with site survey results proving it visible. No further information was provided regarding what incompatibility they were referring to. The description of the device suggests it should connect to 2.4GHz networks with specific security protocol (such as AES/TKIP) support which were met by my router. Ironically, a customer satisfaction survey was sent today regarding the support experience associated with this device. I completed the survey and received an error message due to missing/incorrect SSL certificate on their own survey. I was unable to provide feedback and only wasted more of my time. My advice is to avoid this brand due to the lack of skilled support, the lack of care that surveys are broken, and most importantly the lack of available diagnostics to work a connectivity issue.

WPS does not work, but then again, I've never been a fan of configuring new wireless devices using WPS due to security concerns. I'm an IT manager of 15 support techs for a Fortune 100 company with over 40 years experience and it took me about an hour and a half to get it figured out and working properly. I used a laptop with limited USB connections, so I ended up connecting a USB hub, a USB to Ethernet adapter, and used the manual configuration method. But you have to be aware of which ethernet adapter you are actually configuring or you'll end up configuring the laptop's wireless adapter with a static IP address, which then locks you out from your home wireless on your laptop when you're all done. Most will not know what I'm talking about, but a few will. If there's a mistake to be made, I'll make it along the way with these types of setups. Some things are a little bit intuitive, while other configuration issues seemed to work magically with a reboot. I kept getting an error when trying to connect the IO Gear to my home network and was just about to give up and disconnected it, only to say to myself "give it one more try" and I powered it up and BOOM!, the adapter's configuration was populated correctly. I connected it to my ethernet connection on my home security system and had to wait about 60 seconds and then it came up online. If you understood what I just wrote, this will end up being a pretty good adapter for you. I'll come back if I have more problems in the future.

I have been looking for one of these for a while and this device was perfect!.. originally looking for a way to connect my VOIP phone to a wireless router but then i was given a printer that did not have wifi so i pulled the trigger on this immediately and it worked out great! two ways to setup the device (push button) but i did manual setup which was super easy. - Turn off wifi, set ethernet adapter to the same range as the device (192.168.1.254 so use 253) - open web browser (i used safari on my mac) and point to the device in the address field - go to "Search" to find your SSID Wireless network - supply the password to join and save the config. - device restarts and then it can be used wherever I plugged it into the enternet port of the hp laserjet and then was able to find the printer and get on its management page as well. Easy Peasy! Highly recommend this device

Excellent little gadget. I just ordered four more. It's stupidly easy to setup. You connect to the built in web management server via IP 192.168.1.254. So setup your computer to 192.168.1.253 / 255.255.255.0 (no need to enter gateway or DNS). Login: admin/admin, click on 'Site Survey', enter SSID, Encryption, etc, then 'Apply'. If you have troubles saving, use a different web browser (FireFox worked for me). After the unit reboots, it will connect to the WIFI. Important: this is not a router, it works as a bridge (though I don't know if it will pass packets other than IP). Now simply unplug it from the setup computer, then connect it to any computer or device with a network card and you should be able to get a dynamic IP (if you have a DHCP server) or you can manually enter your IP settings. One little snag, it seems to drop VLAN packets, therefore, it does not look like it supports VLAN tagging. If I define a VLAN on the WIFI end, then tcpdump -i <nic> produced nothing. I did not test the throughput on the device because this is for embedded systems, like alarms, etc. However, the range is very, very good. I tested around 40 feet going through a patio (two exterior walls), and one partial interior wall. I did not believe it was going to connect, but it did, albeit sluggishly. I then connected a new access point (Omada) with the same SSID right next to the unit and within a few minutes it connected to the new AP. This is good to know because some devices are stubborn when it comes to roaming.

Todo bien

Takes 2 minutes from unboxing to full ready

After a software update the WiFi in my LG 4K OLED TV ceased to work... Ethernet was ok, so I added the IOGEAR Ethernet-2-WiFi Universal Wireless Adapter and it's all good... and with WPS it was super simple to make it go... with excellent speed...

It works but the documentation needs to thoroughly touch all aspects of setup, else non-technical users will think it does not work.

Facile a installer avec un PC pour configurer l'appareil. RAS sur le fonctionnement pour connecter une TV sur une BOX en WIFI.