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4.5 stars
"Easy setup. Works as advertised"
Pros: Setup went smoothly.
Cons: Occasionally will lose signal
Summary: The hookup of the actual box was simple. I installed the program on my 3 year old laptop running windows xp pro with 512k memory. I access through a Linksys 54g router.
The setup was smooth, no problems there. After the install I was immediately watching tv on my computer. I got this unit instead of the Slingbox because it has recording capability and it was wireless.
Quality is actually pretty good. It has HD capacity and on the HD channels I noticed a slightly improved picture but nothing fantastically better. I have an old computer with an old video card so if you have something better I'm sure you'll get better results but I'm happy with it as it is.
Been using it about a month and had it lose the signal once. Had to power cycle the box and I was back up. They say they have a patch for this problem which is caused by a glitch in dynamic IPs but I haven't installed it yet.
Some people say if you live in close quarters with a lot of wifi networks nearby you'll encounter some problems so consider your location before you go with the wireless unit.
Customer support responded to a few questons I had within 1-2 days.
Overall I'm very satisfied.
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purchased hava wireless for the purpose of using out of the country - prior to leaving had tested and worked fine - got to my destination - frustrated as did not work - tried several times - wasted time and money - will return it - also if you don't know if you access it locally within your network you can only watch whatever one is watching on your tv - if they change channel it also changes on your pc/laptop -not worth the money spent
