Linksys Instant EtherFast USB200M

Pros: optional dongle. wide bandwidth. driver-less with XP, Tivo.

Cons: to me, none.

The Bottom Line: Acts as a replacement NIC. Does what it is supposed to do. Reasonably priced. Good instructions included.

Review: How Dood? Boy, the other guy here with a review of this thing must have had a real bad experience. One star? Useless? This thing's plug-n-play, dude. Well, not entirely. I had to use the drivers disc for a Windows 98 box on my network. But ...

Pros: Cheap, easy to use, compact

Cons: Fall apart

Review: I have bought this adapter as a replacement for an ethernet card, since my computer could not fit it (it's a barby computer). It worked fine for some time, but it started to stop working about a month or so. I had to unplug it and plug it back in. In the ...

Pros: Very small size. Works well. Tivo compatible.

Cons: Flimsy ethernet connector designed to break.

Review: Products like this annoy me. It was obviously designed poorly on purpose. This would be a great product if they had made it about 2mm thicker which would allow a standard female RJ-45 ethernet jack to be the end. Instead, they made a little flimsy ...

Pros: Small, cheap

Cons: Ethernet cable falls out, will not keep connection

Review: I bought this adapter for my tivo. The tivo saw the adapter but could not find the ethernet. Because of the funny angle the ethernet cable does not stay connected. I spent an hour trying to figure out what was wrong with my tivo but really it because ...

Pros: Cheap

Cons: Everything else. Cable falls out, adapter falls apart, doesn't read.

Review: This adapter is the biggest piece of you-know-what. We have the Linksys router which works fine and we wanted to connect our other computer which doesn't have a network card installed, so we bought the Linksys adapter for it. Worst mistake we could have ...

Pros: none

Cons: cheap, flimsy, breaks easily, bad design

Review: I bought mine to use with my Tivo, it worked until I had to move the Tivo, then the plastic "door" that holds the cable in place broke - now I can't get the cable to stay in. I've tried taping it but can't get the cable aligned correctly. Basically, ...