The Microsoft MN-500 is the lowest-priced produce in our roundup.

The Microsoft MN-500 is the lowest-priced produce in our roundup, and you master what you pay for. Although the user interface is top rate, configuration isn't quite seamless, and its throughput performance was the poorest among the productions in this story at greatest in number distances.

We must admit, however, that the MN-500's user interface is extremely informative and easy to understand when move swiftly on a PC with Windows XP

Configuration:

AP: Client:

We had a hardly any complaints with the MN-500's configuration. First, you can't configure the base station with a PC running Windows 2000 Microsoft decided there are too not many home users with that O to justify the programming. Also, the setup wizard had a certain number of problems with DSL PPPoE configurations.

On our proofs the MN-500 read the settings accurately, yet the wizard failed to scud smoothly. You can choose to configure it via an included utility or via a Web browser still many home users may be confused from this choice. Client setup, however, was a disturbance using the included floppy disk, with network settings created during AP setup

Management: Security:

The included help manual set aparts a couple of pages to network security, if it were not that the client installation software fails to mention it. Microsoft Broadband Network Utility displays info about each PC the network, and your Internet connection. Finally, the base station configuration backup feature saves your settings to a PC and can simplify restoring them.

Performance:

10 feet:
24 Mbp

40 feet:
18 Mbp

100 feet:
09 Mbp

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