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User Submitted Cisco-Linksys Wireless-B Music System WMLS11B Reviews (cont...)Date: 2008-10-01 WMLS11B - General Ok, if you buy this item be aware that its limited to mp3 audio delivery. Also, you must upgrade to the latest bios on the system otherwise is very limited. To receive other radio station you need to purchase access to the radio software. Also, you should join the yahoo group for this radio. Outside that, the setup is easy (if you follow the instructions). Radio output is ok, it sound more boxy that anything else even if you change the output quality. Its ok for this inexpensive radio. Date: 2008-09-26 Works good for me All I needed was to play 2 mp3 web stations. Once I found the URL's and loaded them into the Favorites it started playing the stations just fine. I like the fact that you can wirelessly load the URL's. I also upgraded the firmware to ver. 1.0.9 and it gave more room for favorites. Date: 2008-09-06 Good sound, difficult to set up properly I am surprised to find out that this product was discontinued a year or 2 ago. I guess that's why I got it for about 1/3 of the original price when it first came out. Pros: -The sound is clear and enjoyable via wireless connection. -Wireless reception is strong enough so I can listen to music/radio upstairs even if the wireless access point is located downstairs at the other side of the house (about 40ft. away). -Windows Media Player can be used as the media server to stream music to the unit. Cons: -It was a hassle to look for the updated firmware so it could work properly. -With the speakers attached, the unit is rather big for a radio. -If you look at the back, there are so many wires visible even though I tried to tidy up with cable ties. -If you want to keep your personal radio stations selections, you need to pay $30 to join. But you actually don't need that "membership" to listen to hundreds of radio stations broadcasted on the Internet. Even though there are some cons about this unit, I still highly recommend it to a friend. Date: 2008-05-06 I just got one About 18 month ago, I purchased my first wireless internet radio. media player. An Acoustic Energy. I spent over two years arguing over what to buy, was it worth so much money, etc. One of the first I looked at was this Linksys Wireless Music System but at the time it cost 150 dollars. While I was arguing with myself overpurchasing this system, Acoustic Energy came out with its first wireless radio using the Reciva database. The AE was not my first system. I did have an earlier system, a "Sonowave" that used XML based software to transmit stations to a remote boom box by means of a separate USB tranceiver that was connected to the computer and transmitted on a 900MHZ frequency. It had wonderful stereo sound, but it died in six months and was only useful for FM after that. The Reciva system is very good and it has gotten a lot of the wrinkles out of receiving streaming internet radio. But the 30 dollar price of this unit makes it well worth anyones while to buy it, either as a second system or a first internet radio for anyone who does not wish to spend the 300 dollars that most wifi radios now cost As an internet radio, it works more than well enough. It does not handle Real Audio streams, but most stations also run on either MP3 and Windows Media formats as well, so this is not a big sacrifice. Many here have complained that some of the station that are programmmed into this music system do not play, but that is rather due to its reliance on the VTuner database. Reciva established its own database for its user, and Linksys relied on an existing product. Many of the vTuner stations are dead links. Users can send updates to urls to the Vtuner site as well as request that they add stations and they are rather good about doing this. But the fact that stations do not play is not a fault of the unit, but of the web site that runs the database of stations. On the whole I would recommend this radio as an inexpensive introduction to internet radios, a second system to those who already own one. I am not all that interested personally in streaming my music collection from my computer. My Reciva unit does that quite well, but it is something I actually never use. The unit is very easy to set up by anyone who has ever set up their own wireless router/dsl modem combo or a wireless modem. It is a simple matter of simply connecting the radio to your computers ethernet port and running the set up software. Updating to the latest drivers and firmware is recommended, its easy to get them both off the Linksys site. While people state that it only runs MP3 stations, I have been able to run radio stations that use Windows Media files as well. Again, there are many that are listed on the vTuner site that are not up to date and so do not run, but those that are up to date run on this unit fine, so far. If the station runs off of the VTUNER site on your computer, it will run on this music player. You just have to look at the VTUNER site, try to run the station from there, and then try it on your Linksys Wireless Music System. The only VTuner stations that will not run on this one seem to by those using Real Player modes. Date: 2008-02-27 Internet Radio Had trouble getting my computer to recognize this unit. Showed up on the router info, but the Linksys WMLS11B setup disk couldn't find unit. Finally figured out that I need to use the radio screen setup to tell the unit to use the ethernet cable instead of the wireless for initial setup. Didn't find this info in manual. After that, unit worked as desired.
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