I just got two of these this week and i've been satisfied so far.
Product Description
The EZ-Stream Wireless Audio Adapter is an innovative solution from SMC for your Home Entertainment Center. The new EZ-Stream 802.11g Wireless Audio Adapter is fast and easy to install on your 802.11b/g wireless network. The SMCWAA-G features a large flip-up LCD Matrix display and an infrared remote control for quickly selecting the audio tracks or Internet music station you want. The SMCWAA-G gives you the freedom to play the MP3 and WMA (unprotected/ protected) music files stored on your PC to any room of your home. You can specify audio tracks or Internet radio stations as "Favorites" by the click of a button, so with one menu you have quick and easy access to the songs or stations you listen to most.
Was able to successfully connect to my wireless network (which even had TKIP). I had to change the key to all lower case since the unit only allows lower case letters. Build quality cheap when you hold it but you wouldn't notice it from 10 feet away. Sound quality is fairly good. Instead of plugging in my laptop to the home theater this unit does the job. Just wish it had some facility to rate the songs played. Don't know how long it will last so keeping my fingers crossed.
Bottom line: It's the best toy you can get for the money. I only spent $25 at buy.com. It's very simple to set up and easy to use. In fact, it's so simple that you don't even have to read the manual! It only takes a few minutes for this device to be hooked up on your wireless network and recognizing your music server. Decent size, bright display makes it simple to read from the couch, even in the dark, and the remote works from more than 20 feet away. The SMCWAA-G works flawlessly with the Twonky Music server (via uPnP) on RedHat Linux and MacOS X as well as with MusicMatch on Windows.
One of the downsides on the unit is clearly inability to perform alpha searches via remote control. Another annoyance is that it occasionally misreads some MP3 tags reporting characters like Ÿ!~, etc. But I can deal with it. If you don't like get something like Netgear MP101 but you're going to spend ten times more.
Nice unit. the only difficulty was it wasn't entirely intuitive on how to use the remote to enter in the wep address but I obviously figured it out.
