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Linksys Wireless - G Music Bridge
By: Shayne Rana  &  Jayesh Mansukhani   |   Jun 06, 2007
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Wirelss freedom
Good range
Expensive
Configuration is a potential problem

Installation & Performance
The Music Bridge despite being a Linksys product was quite a pain to configure. It's not exactly rocket science to configure a device for Wi-Fi connectivity but getting the Music Bridge to work with our Wi-Fi test lab setup, it certainly seemed so. For starters, despite our best effort it refused to detect our 802.11g network. It took a lot of fiddling around, not to mention changing the network to WEP security, before we were able to get the music bridge to acknowledge the network. Finally when it did we started checking out the Music Bridge's audio playback capabilities. This test lasted for all of 10 minutes before the music bridge lost the connection to Wi-Fi. No amount of coaxing or resetting the router would allow it to detect the network. Darn it!

Having never faced a problem like this in the past with Linksys products, we decided to check out their support website to solve the problem. It was no big surprise to discover an updated firmware was available. One upgrade later and we were all set to retry our little experiment. This time the whole experience was way smoother. Not only did the music bridge easily find our network, it was able to connect to it using WPA.

Despite the limited bandwidth Wi-Fi offers, the music bridge was up to the task and did not drop the audio stream even once. To test the distance the music bridge was capable of, we moved the bridge to the farthest point in the lab and into the next room... the audio playback remained smooth and suffered no lag.

Conclusion
The bottom line - The Music Bridge at the end of the day is a specialty product. It is expensive at around Rs. 5,905 and requires some basic knowledge of networking to get it functional. However, if you are experienced in setting up a Wi-Fi network, and willing to shell out dough like this for wireless freedom, look no further.


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hi it is said in this article that we can here music playing on our laptop or pc which is connected you our amplifier so i wanted to know which are the wireless devices which we can use to hear the music which is transmitted by this wireless device?
Raj Shah @ Oct 07, 2007
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