Samsung WIS12ABGNX LinkStick Wireless LAN Adapter

I moved into a new home where I wanted to stream movies to my TV; one upstairs, one downstairs. My modem and wireless router is in my "office", which means the signal has to go through at least two walls for each location. I haven't had the best luck with wireless in the past, especially when going through walls, so I tried an ethernet over powerline solution. That didn't work so well. The TVs were constantly dropping the network. Tried other devices (such as a Sony Blue-Ray player) and those didn't any better. So it wasn't the TVs.The only other solutions were ethernet over coax, running ethernet cables through the walls, or going wireless. I figured ethernet over coax could have the same issues as ethernet over power lines, so I opted for wireless (bonus points, it was cheaper).The setup involved was as follows:1) Plugged up the LAN adapters to the TVs.2) Disabled the wireless access control list on my router.3) Copied down the router security pass phrase.4) Went into network settings on each TV and set them to use a wireless connection.5) Entered the pass phrase.6) Added the TVs to the list of permitted devices.7) Re-enabled my device access list.Voila. Secure, functioning TV. No wires. No drilling. I was kind of surprised it worked as well as it did. I watched TV off and on all weekend, and I had zero issues. Netflix worked flawless.I will say from past experience that going wireless may not work for everyone. If you are in an apartment or condo with lots of wireless access points you may get interference from those devices. I cannot see any other networks from within my house. I am a Netgear N900 Dual-Band Gigabit router, for reference.

I purchased this item as a cheaper alternative to the Samsung WIS09ABGN Wireless LAN Adapter. I searched the internet for quite some time trying to find this item for a reasonable price and stumbled over a review that stated that this was a replacement for the WIS09ABGN adapter and would be compatible with my Samsung bd1250 Home Theater system. Keep in mind that the WIS09ABGN adapter sells on the Amazon marketplace for over $100. I found the WIS12ABGNX adapter on Amazon for less than $27 delivered. After speaking to Samsung customer support and being told that it WAS NOT compatible with my unit, I was concerned and disappointed but figured it was only 27 bucks and, if doesn't work, I can always unload it on eBay. The product arrived after about a week in excellent, like-new, condition in its original box with all of its original documentation.I plugged it in to the back of the unit and, much to my surprise, my bd-1250 was able to detect both mine and my neighbor's wireless network. I made a few attempts to connect to my network but they all failed. Keep in mind that I used the default settings and changed nothing. I noticed that signal strength was low so I used the supplied 6 inch usb-to-usb cable to move it closer to the front of my unit. That did the trick. I was able to connect to my home wireless network and am now enjoying Netflix movies in HD.I'm glad I ignored Samsung's advice that this WAS NOT compatible with my Home Theater - doing so saved me about $75. The WIS12ABGNX may not be a suitable replacement for the WIS09ABGN in ALL units but it works perfectly in mine.

This product is awesome compared to having my 2010 model 46 inch Samsung 3D led 7000 series machine connected to the power line network via ethernet cable and a switch to the power line interface. This unit connects via the 5Ghz band on my dual band router and I can now stream video to the tv via my computer's and Netflix comes up super fast now on the internet part of the Tv. It can connect on the 2Ghz band if you do not have a 5Ghz dual band wireless N router but I am not sure how the streaming would be since it is slower in the old wireless G band than the wireless N band and since the adapter would connect either way, I knew to set it up on the 5ghz band since I had very good signal strength and knew that this connection would provide the fastest connection I could get. It is a lot faster than the bluray player in my bedroom that has wireless built in when connecting to Netflix. I should have bought this thing ages ago instead of hooking up to my very slow power line alternative internet connection. The power line network is for when the wireless signals are kind of marginal in the basement at times but yet I want to get on the internet. Most of the time it worked ok but would ocassionally have to buffer on Netflix. No buffering anymore on this wireless adapter. You can not beat the price or performance and it is a Samsung adapter as well and comes in a Samsung official box, wow what a bargain!!!

As long as you're only interested in the applications (Netflix, Pandora, etc.) that are directly supported by Samsung for this particular device, it works as advertised. Being able to have anything you can do using a web-browser play through your TV is the end-game and this device has severe limitations in achieving that goal. You cannot, for example, stream a video to your PC and watch it on your TV using this device. Of course, you can plug your PC into your TV via an HDMI connection from your PC, but that is inconvenient. You can wirelessly "play" a video that is stored on your PC to the TV using Samsung software and this device. As I have no videos stored on my PC, instead streaming video from Amazon, this feature is useless to me. Amazon streaming is not supported by this device. One last caution regarding the device: the number keys on the remote control must be used to access content. You type a "b" by hitting the "2" key two times, for example, just the way text messages were entered on cell phones that only had a number pad. This makes it very tedious to access material from any of the available applications. All in all, this will get very limited use at our home.