TRENDnet Wireless N Gaming Adapter TEW-647GA (Black)

I purchased this for one reason, it was an "N" band adapter that could be used on the XBox 360 and was less expensive than the Microsoft "N" adapter. I was, oh, so looking that the Trendnet adapter would work well given it's price point. I wanted "N" band as I'm looking to use my XBox to stream music and videos in addition to playing games. If that's your goal skip this adapter and get the Microsoft N adapter, sure you'll spend a few more dollars but, as they say, you get what you pay for.I have now been able to do side-by-side comparison on these two and can provide a summary of my experience. For full disclosure I'm using D-Link DIR-655 router with my set-up.First, the good on this adapter:- It will work on the XBox 360 (note comments below on performance, or lack thereof)- It looks good with status lights to show connectivity- It costs less than Microsoft's "N" band adapterHowever, let's look at the not so good aspects of this adapter:- Your connection rate will be MUCH less than if you used the Microsoft N adapter. With the Trendnet adapter my connection speed (as measured by the XBox network test) was just barely passable for TV. With the Microsoft's adapter I registered a full connection on the graph, now suitable for TV as well as HDTV! I also used my router's administrative status to get the actual hard reading, a 70-90 rate for Trendnet, 220-240 for Microsoft's adapter, that's a HUGE difference.- You may need to make some changes to your router, I did. I had my router set for AES "Cipher Type", by default the Trendnet required "TKIP". I made change to my router, but later found I could login to the adapter's administrative set-up and change this - however this is not an option when you go into the configuration screen the first time so you have to change your router to support TKIP. Time spent debugging the problem with Trendnet adapter 15 minutes, no time required with Microsoft's adapter.- You will need to set-up the Trendnet adapter using your PC, first installing the adapter set-up software, then configuring the adapter. I have 20 years of PC experience and given my set-up it was not as straight forward as I would have liked. I continued to run into problems where my IP address for the adapter wouldn't show up in on my router status screen (it showed as 0.0.0.0 - that's not right). I had to reset my router to get the IP address to show up. I found that I had to do this several other times over several days as it would revert to 0.0.0.0. I called Trendnet, they connected into my router remotely, they had no answers or suggestions. By comparison, I plugged in the Microsoft adapter to my XBox 360, selected my wireless network and entered my WPA password. Time spent setting up and debugging the Trendnet was 30 minutes, time with Trendnet Tech another 30 minutes. Using Microsoft's adapter was about 1 minute.- The Trendnet is advertised as "N" band, however my router only recognized it as "802.11g"("G" band only). All other "N" band adapters on my system (3 others, now 4 including Microsoft's) all register as "802.11n (2.4GHz)". I asked Trendnet's tech support why this would not show as "N". I found their response to be quite interesting. Per the tech support, they tested the speed in their lab and achieved "N" band speeds, they therefore classified this as "N" band. This seems strange that they make their designation based on speed and this is not recognized as "N" band by my router, nor is speed anywhere near the "N" dual band that Microsoft's adapter provides. As noted above, Microsoft's adapter is properly recognized as "802.11n (2.4GHz)".- You'll also need to have an additional A/C plug for the Trendnet adapter. With Microsoft's adapter it's powered by your XBox only.My conclusion:If you are looking for an adapter for gaming only (no streaming of music or videos), then this may be an adapter to look at.If you are buying this to stream music and videos on network devices, based on my experience with sub-par network speeds (and not registering as an "N" band adapter), I'd look at other adapters.If you are looking to use on XBox 360, go with Microsoft's product, you'll save yourself a lot of time and frustration, will easily justify the additional $$ to get Microsoft's "N" band adapter.Note: The unit that I used for my review was the latest hardware and firmware offered by Trendnet (HW v2.0R with FW v1.01.22). As noted above, I, like other reviews, was able to connect my XBox 360 to the network wirelessly with this adapter. What I was lacking was performance. For basic gaming the low throughput that I found with this adapter won't matter. What I've failed to see in other review is their actual throughput speed. If you are streaming video you'll want a high throughput. Trendnet didn't provide that, my experience was the rate was about 1/3 the rate that Microsoft's "N" adapter provided. I had high hopes this would meet my networking needs, just unfortunately fell a bit short of target for me.

I bought this router since we have the 847 model and use that for a computer, but I only needed to hookup an ancient laserjet printer that has a built in jetdirect ethernet port out on it; and didn't want to spend the money for the more expensive model.Setup on this was horrible. I tried using the included CD on two different windows 7 machines; and it never listed the router when it got into the "find device" screen. I also tried to connect to the router via my web browser on those machines and on my mac. I gave up and submitted a ticket to Trendnet. To their credit - they got back to me very quickly; and their instructions were spot on.Here's detailed instructions on how to configure it:* Plug in the router* Use a paper clip to push in the reset button on the bottom for at least 15 seconds. (The lights didn't change at all during any of that). Release the reset button.* Unplug the router for at least 15 seconds so it finishes the 'reset' cycle, then plug it back in.* Plug the router into your computer (mac is fine - that's what I used, and it's 10 times easier to change your settings in the next step)* Setup your computer to use a fixed IP address of 192.168.10.10 and subnet of 255.255.255.0* Use your browser (Firefox for me on my Lion OS macbook pro - it didn't seem to work in Safari) to go to 192.168.10.110* The username is "admin" (no quotes)* There is no password* Administrator button, Management link: Set the password to something useful that isn't blank* Wireless button, Profile link: Create a Wireless profile to use your home network entering the SSID, etc. Select the checkbox next to it.* Go to the network tab and make sure it's using a fixed IP instead of DHCP. I changed it to something I could hand out on my home network - and have my apple base station match the MAC address to give it that same IP address every time. (If you tell it to connect using DHCP then you won't know what address it gets and can't get back to the admin web page)* Once you save this setting, it will get to 99% saved and seem like it never finishes. Doesn't matter. Use the new IP address you assigned in the previous screen in the browser instead of the default and you should be back in business.* To test it I turned off my wireless on my mac, powered down the router, changed my mac back to DHCP and connected the router to the ethernet port. I was successfully connected to the internet using the trendnet device.I also found this manual more useful than the one that comes in the box: [...]Although it doesn't cover setting your own IP address to be able to see the device or how to reset the device.So far so good - I'll update review again after using it for a while.

nutze den Adapter an ner Sony Playstation um Videos zu streamen. Wird problemlos von der Fritzbox erkannt und baut eine stabile Verbindung mit 100M/bit auf, das reicht für HD-Videos.

Easy set up, hooks to my Xbox with ease, no problems what so ever. I truely like this product and its much better than the original WiFi adaptor.