Product Description

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.Let the Linksys Wireless-G Music Bridge bring your digital music out into the living room for the whole family to enjoy.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #682 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Linksys
• Model: WMB54G
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: 5.12" h x 5.57" w x 3.76" l, 4.00 pounds

Features

• Product Type - Wireless Music Bridge
• Warranty - 3 Years Limited
• Headphone jack connector for powered speakers
• Easy Setup Wizard for configuration

Amazon.com Product Description
You're having a party, but you don't have the time it will take to burn a disc of your favorite digital tunes. This is where the Linksys WMB54G Wireless-G Music Bridge comes in. By letting you wirelessly stream audio files from your PC to your stereo or other speaker system, no matter which music service you use, the Wireless-G Music Bridge gives you all the convenience of digital music with the sound of high-performance stereo.

Toss out the cords and wirelessly stream music with the Linksys WMB54G Wireless-G Music Bridge. View larger.

With the Wireless-G Music Bridge, you can send whatever music your PC is playing--whether it's from media players, games, Internet radio, or MP3 files--through your home network and to your stereo system. If you're running a wireless (802.11b and 802.11g) network, the Music Bridge will send your music to your stereo with no need for any additional cables. Simply connect the Wireless-G Music Bridge to your entertainment system via the included RCA cable, and you'll be ready to start cranking the tunes. Alternately, you can also use standard 10/100 Ethernet cabling to connect to your network.

If you have a 5.1-channel surround sound system, the Wireless-G Music Bridge includes software that creates a virtual 5.1-channel sound in your PC, so that you can take full advantage of your stereo system. The Wireless-G Music Bridge also lets you choose what audio from your PC you want to play over your audio system. For example, you can choose to send music but not email alerts or other PC tones. Or you may want to keep the alert tones streaming. It's entirely up to you.

An easy-to-use setup wizard will guide you through the configuration so that you can be up and running in no time. The Wireless-G Music Bridge supports 128-bit WEP encryption to ensure a secure connection and is compatible with wireless 802.11b and 802.11g standards.

What's in the Box
Wireless-G Music Bridge, Ethernet network cable, stereo RCA cable, power adapter, setup wizard CD-ROM, user guide on CD-ROM, and quick installation guide.

Customer Reviews

After 5 minutes, I love it
Thanks to the other reviewers here, I had this up and running in less than 10 minutes. My router, PC, and stereo are all in the same room. However my stereo has speakers in other rooms. So I will be using this to pipe music from my PC (MP3, internet radio, etc.) throughout the house. So far, after listening to it for 5 minutes, it does exactly what I want it do. I would prefer a deeper sound but I haven't played with the settings yet, nor have I tested different music sources.

waste of money
This was the biggest waste of time & money. I am a network engineer. I have 15 years of experience with wired and wireless networks. I could not get the bridge to see the SSID of my AP. I tried for over 6 hours, thinking that I had done something wrong. I even used my Linux wireless tools to diagnose the traffic to no avail. This device just plain sucks.

I wish I could rate this a zero, but the only choice is a "1".

Tricky install but works great
I read a lot of reviews before buying this item. I wanted to replace a NetGear Music Player 101 which performed the function of transmitting radio transmission and music from the PC to a home stereo system. The NetGear unit was flakey and the service restricted to a pay service that was very limited and flakey as well.

What I read about the Linksys music bridge put me off some. I am familiar with adding hardware to computers but wireless is always tricky and some of the reviews on installation were bad. However, I took the leap and found some online help in terms of a step-by-step tutorial that one gracious fellow put together and shared and voila, the unit took about a half hour to install (not counting some false starts) and is working flawlessly as I write this. It is really great in that you don't need any paid service to listen to radio broadcast provided free by stations or any music stored on your PC over your stereo system. One could also use your PC like a tivo and 'tape' shows during the day to listen to at your convenience.

With the prices quoted here at Amazon (as low as $25) this thing is a bargain.