Linksys Wireless-G Music Bridge
Wirelessly brings your digital music collection to the living room
The Linksys Wireless-G Music Bridge lets you bring the digital music streaming to or stored on your computer to your Home Entertainment Center, without running cables through the house. Using a wireless connection, the Music Bridge finally frees your digital music collection from those little computer speakers to play in full glory through your stereo or surround sound system.
The Wireless-G Music Bridge sits by your home stereo and connects to it using standard consumer electronics cables. Then it connects to your home network by Wireless-G wireless networking, or if you prefer, it can be connected via standard 10/100 Ethernet cabling. The included software creates a virtual sound system in your PC, which sends the audio output of any application to the Music Bridge and the stereo system. Use your favorite media player to play your music, and listen in the comfort of the living room.
Unleashing your music collection from your computer is really easy! Just connect your sound system to the audio port on the Linksys Wireless-G Music Bridge using the included stereo RCA cable and enjoy hours of music in the comfort of your living room. Your music doesn't have to be confined inside the PC anymore.
Let the Linksys Wireless-G Music Bridge bring your digital music out into the living room for the whole family to enjoy.
Ports/Buttons: One 10/100 RJ-45 Port, Left and Right RCA Audio Ouput, One Line Out, Coax and Optical Digital Audio Ouput, One Power Port and One Reset Button
Connects your stereo system to a Wireless-G or wired network
Listen to your digital music collection in the living room
Creates a virtual sound system in your PC to send audio output to a stereo system anywhere in the house
Works with any program -- media players, games, streamed Internet audio, etc.
System Requirements
400 MHz or Faster PC
128 MB of RAM Memory
CD-ROM Drive
Network Adapter
Internet Explorer 5.5 or Netscape Navigator 6.1 or Higher
for Web-Based configuration
Windows 2000 or XP with Service Pack 1 (or later)
Customer Reviews and Rating
Customer Rating:
3.6
Customer Reviews:
10
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Value
3.8
Features
3.5
Quality
3.5
Performance
3.7
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Reviewer:
halltrista on
Aug 28, 2008 Customer Rating:
3.5
Value
4.0
Features
3.0
Quality
2.0
Performance
5.0
This product works very well but it seriously took 4 hours to setup - mainly because of one simple flaw - the MAC address on the back is for the wired lan output, the wireless MAC address (which is obviously what anyone would use) is one digit higher than the LAN MAC. You would have thought there would be some sort of note for this, but there isn't. And because the automatic install isn't worth crap, you will need the wireless MAC - not the one on the back of the unit! I also agree with the person before that stated Linksys support sucks - it does! One simple digit cost me 4 hours, had I known about it to begin with it would have only taken 10 minutes.
Reviewer:
Jim on
Aug 19, 2008 Customer Rating:
4.3
Value
5.0
Features
4.0
Quality
4.0
Performance
4.0
The Music Bridge works great once it is setup. BUT If you have a wired AND wireless network and youre running Vista, be prepared! Youll need to update the software AND the firmware. After an hour and a half on the phone with Linksys technical support in Malaysia, the final advice was to return the product and get my money back. I wasnt ready to give up so I called my brother who is a network engineer for AT&T. We determined that for some odd reason the music bridge was not retaining the gateway IP address. We downloaded the latest software drivers AND the firmware, and that finally did the trick. Now Im happy.
Reviewer:
Anonymous
on
Aug 01, 2008 Customer Rating:
1.0
Value
1.0
Features
1.0
Quality
1.0
Performance
1.0
This product is horrible, i spent 5 hours working on this, i spent 2 hours on the phone with tech support, that didnt help for crap, then an hour online chat with another tech support. This thing is so bad, i cant even get to the setup menu in IE since thats how you have to do it since the CD is crap. IM warning you, never buy this product or you will have tons of headaches
Reviewer:
skandranon on
Jul 05, 2008 Customer Rating:
2.3
Value
3.0
Features
2.0
Quality
2.0
Performance
2.0
Not the most reliable unit available. There are better units, but these do cost more, so if price is the issue, than this can be made to work. Vista drivers were an issue for the longest time, Linksys kept promising but no delivery. New drivers caused my system to reset so haven't tried them on that system since. XP seems to work fine.
Reviewer:
ruralmanda on
May 31, 2008 Customer Rating:
4.5
Value
4.0
Features
4.0
Quality
5.0
Performance
5.0
This product works flawlessly. Knowledge of networking is a great help in setting up, not for those without it. It is well built and has considerable range. I have installed in shop about 75 feet away from router in house and has a great connection through 3 walls. Sound quality is excellent. I would recommend this unit to anyone needing to ''pipe'' music to a remote location from their PC.
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So you’re in the gym and see nearly everyone with some device strapped
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The guy in the cube next to you at work always has his headphones on, his
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to visit your mom and even grandma has one.
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WMB54G UPC No:
745883568949 Box Size:
( Length:
10, Width:
7, Depth:
3 )
Shipping Weight:
1.3500 pound(s)
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