Netgear Wireless Digital Music Player £49.99! [CLOSED]

Babbler

Staples have a half price wireless networking 5 day salwe with the Netgear digital music player at half price - now £49.99! Best price I found online was 80 ish!

http://www.netgear.co.uk/netgear_mp101_digitalmusic.php

Sabre_2

Do you have a link for it in staples mate, cant find it!

Babbler

Sabre wrote:

Do you have a link for it in staples mate, cant find it!

I couldnt find it online - its in the Sun today and seems to be instore only... worth phoning to reserve one if you want one. They will be quite popular at this price I think. A few other deals as well but nothing worth shouting about. A 1gb Mem stick for £69 quid, and a wireless set for 90 odd.

Sabre_2

Cheers mate, ill check it out....

sjpkgp

I also looked for the link but reasoned that it must have been an in-store offer. No staples near me, but I had a quick look on ebay and they have quite a few buy it nows of the same product (new) but with £7 postage. Might still be a saving for someone who is in my boat with no staples nearby.

Incidentally, does anyone know if you actually NEED a stereo for these to go through ? i.e. can you just get away with speakers ? I like the sound of this gadget but our house is littered with "gadgets that I bought that did not really do what I thought they did". Another one would send my OH over the edge.

Thanks

Dave_P_7

Ebuyer recently had a similar Linksys product, but priced much lower at £17.99. I've been thinking about whether to buy one over the last week, but they're now out of stock: http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/products/index.html?action=c2hvd19wcm9kdWN0X292ZXJ2aWV3&product_uid=51510

(or search for Quickfind code 51510).

It seems that these older 802.11b products will be cleared out by retailers to make room for new 802.11g based products...

eek

sjpkgp wrote:

Incidentally, does anyone know if you actually NEED a stereo for these to go through ? i.e. can you just get away with speakers ? I like the sound of this gadget but our house is littered with "gadgets that I bought that did not really do what I thought they did". Another one would send my OH over the edge.

Thanks

It has a headphone socket (and from memory, as they are at home) the remote control has volume controls that control the headphone output so powered pc speakers would be fine.

Babbler

Dave_P wrote:

Ebuyer recently had a similar Linksys product, but priced much lower at £17.99. I've been thinking about whether to buy one over the last week, but they're now out of stock: http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/products/index.html?action=c2hvd19wcm9kdWN0X292ZXJ2aWV3&product_uid=51510

(or search for Quickfind code 51510).

It seems that these older 802.11b products will be cleared out by retailers to make room for new 802.11g based products...

Good find,but the Netgear one is 802.11g.

You can get them on e-bay yeah, but like you say 7 quid postage and some people still don't like ebay

redfox

Babbler wrote:

Good find,but the Netgear one is 802.11g.

it says the MP101 is 802.11b on the Netgear website http://www.netgear.co.uk/netgear_mp101_digitalmusic.php

Babbler

Hmmm... it is confusing. All the shops state it is g, as does this bit of the page I linked to, although it says "compatible", which means it is probably b. Cunning!

KEY FEATURES
Listen to digital music through high quality stereo system, headphones or speakers


MP101 software collates all your digital music files into one database


Easy set-up install software once onto network-attached PC


Compatible with 802.11b and 802.11g wireless networks


Select your favourite music from the comfort of your armchair


Wireless network protected from intruders by WEP encryption

Babbler

Dave_P wrote:

Ebuyer recently had a similar Linksys product, but priced much lower at £17.99. I've been thinking about whether to buy one over the last week, but they're now out of stock: http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/products/index.html?action=c2hvd19wcm9kdWN0X292ZXJ2aWV3&product_uid=51510

(or search for Quickfind code 51510).

It seems that these older 802.11b products will be cleared out by retailers to make room for new 802.11g based products...

This thing (Linksys) has REALLY BAD reviews - here is one of them:
http://www.broadbandbuyer.co.uk/Shop/Reviews.asp?ProductID=758

Very hard to set up and use.

Netgear one is a "b" one, although that shouldnt matter for music, only video (which this doesnt do).