Sounds good, but at $50 us it's just cheaper to buy a very very good router. lol!
Take care. On Jun 14, 2013, at 11:08 AM, Dane Trethowan <[email protected]> wrote: > The Fritz! USB Stick is a wireless USB connection for your Windows machine > however this device is set well apart from the average Wi-Fi device. > > The Fritz! brand is well known for its value packed rooter offerings, the > Fritz! Box 7390 rooter has received many reviews praising its feature set and > has won various awards for its innovative technology and functionality, the > Fritz! Stick - as an accessary - builds on this innovation and functionality. > > I have a Fritz! Box and wanted to extend my Wi-Fi network to several machines > here that didn't have any network connectivity so thought the Fritz! Stick > would be the easy way to do this, the price for these was quite reasonable at > £25.00 each so I ordered 2, always handy to have a spare around. > > I was pleasantly surprised to see that each Fritz! Stick was well packed in a > small cardboard box, the last Wi-Fi USB stick I bought several years ago came > in one of those hideous sealed packages that seem to require a chain saw to > open. > > Packaging it simple yet elegant, there's the Fritz! Stick itself, a dock to > stand the fRitz! Stick in, printed documentation and a CD ROM containing > drivers and extra user guides. > > So after unpacking one of the Fritz! Sticks I thought it time to "Dive Right > in", according to the information I had at hand the Fritz! Stick was supposed > to accept all the security settings from my Fritz! Box and use these for > connection when the stick was plugged into a Windows computer so I plugged > the stick into the USB port on the Fritz! Box, waited for half an hour, > plugged the Fritz! Stick into the USB port on a Windows machine here and > hoped for the best. > > The install worked flawlessly and security settings were indeed transferred > to the Windows machine from the Fritz! Stick and the computer connected > automatically to my home Network so no need for me to enter security keys, > figure out what method of security to use work out which network to join and > so on. > > Having connected 1 machine I thought I'd try connecting another to the Wi-Fi > network using the other Fritz! Stick I'd ordered and here's where things > became a little tricky. > > It seemed that the network data wasn't transmitted to the Fritz! Stick as > easily as it was for the first stick I'd used, the drivers etc were installed > from the second stick to the second machine and a "Connection Wizard" was > then executed, I didn't expect this. > > The wizard asks for your Wi-Fi data, you can use "WPS" mode to transfer the > data automatically - if your rooter has this facility - or you can enter it > manually, I chose to enter the data manually. > > The Wizard is accessible enough though you'll need skill in using the JAWS > cursor to get around it and click on the appropriate items you use. > > Once the data was entered the Stick connected to the Wi-Fi network so it was > then a matter of selecting the Fritz! Stick from the "Network Adapter" list > under Windows. > > So how to know if the data from your Fritz! Box has been transmitted > successfully to your Fritz! Stick? Well if you have no vision then there's > absolutely no way of knowing, you'll just have to wait and take your chances > but if you have vision then you'll see a light on the front of the Fritz! Box > start flashing red whilst data is transmitted to the Stick, the light colour > will change to Green once transmission is complete and fritz! Stick is ready > to be unplugged from the Fritz! Box and connected to your Windows computer. > > So you don't have a Fritz! Box? That's no problem as you can still use the > Fritz! Stick with any 2.4 or 5.0GHZ Wi-Fi network and here's where the CD ROM > accompanying the stick comes in, the disc contains the full set of drivers > for versions of Windows XP upwards. > > I've only had the Fritz! Stick for 2 days so I've not been able to do much > testing but I can tell you that the stick certainly out perform the built-in > Wi-Fi of my Asus netbook computers here. > > You can feel the antennas on the Fritz! Stick, 1 either side of the device. > > I like the idea of the Dock, the Fritz! Stick stands in this whilst the cable > coming out of the dock plugs into a USB port on your Windows machine, having > a dock like this can make all the difference to Wi-Fi coverage. > > The Fritz! Stick is a USB 2.0 device but can be used on USB 1.1 ports, note > that throughput will be very slow indeed if the stick is used with USB 1.1 > > So now all the machines here are connected to my home network and whilst a > wired network is my preferred option there can be no doubt that a Wi-Fi > network is a lot cheaper. At £25.00 per Fritz! Stick then giving 2 machines > access to my network was a bargain and a time saver as I could use the Fritz! > Box to transmit the Wi-Fi data to the Fritz! Stick. > > > ********** > > Dane Trethowan > Skype: grtdane12 > Phone US (213) 438-9741 > Phone U.K. 1245 79 0598 > Phone Australia (03) 9005 8589 > > > > > ======================================= > > To post to this group, please send your message to: > [email protected] > The Windows-Access E-Mail forum is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus > and worm-free > > To modify your subscription options, please visit your personalise subscriber > options page, located at > http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/windows-access > > You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Windows-Access forum at > either of the following websites: > http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/windows-access/index.html > Or: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]> > > you may also subscribe to this list via RSS. 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