TRENDnet HotFlash TEW-429UF 802.11g/b Wireless Adapter review

Taking ZyXEL’s AG-225H product and adding a healthy 512MB of Flash storage makes the TRENDnet HotFlash TEW-429UF a highly desirable and versatile tool for mobile workers. Its wireless locator functions are extremely useful and the lack of wireless AP functions isn’t a drawback at all.

These types of devices could prove invaluable to mobile workers as they make identifying wireless hotspots a cinch. Rather than dig your notebook out, fire it up and wait for Windows XP’s zero configuration features to sniff around you whip out the 429UF and check its little two-line LCD panel to see if there is wireless activity in the vicinity. Thanks to the extra internal storage the TEW-429UF is slightly bulkier that the AG-225H and it’s not so nicely designed either. Even so, bar a couple of main features it is virtually identical.

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