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Linksys no longer bothers to print the voltage-amperage settings for its products on the products themselves. The Linksys Web site doesn’t help. The product guides online don’t cover all the versions of each product. For example, I own version 2 and a version 3 of the EZXS88W 8-port switch. The User Guide only states that the 88W takes 3.3V at 3.0A, but one of the two 88W’s I have takes 9V at 800mA.

For people like me who own a lot of Linksys products, this is a huge problem. I have five Linksys products and four different power adapters. So that other people don’t have to suffer the mix-and-match games I’ve endured, I’m sharing the configurations I know:

EZXS55W v.3

7.5V 700mA

EZXS88W v.2

3.3V 3.0A (3000mA, 3A)

EZXS88W v.3

9V 800mA

WRT54G v.3

12V 1000mA (1A, 1.0A)

I’ve taken to labeling all of my power adapters with the products to which they belong as I pull them out of the box (for new products) or determine the proper matching (for existing products).