| | |  | Electronics | Home » » Internet Radio Wood Finish | | | | | | | Description: | | Listen to the World with Internet Radio, Enjoy Great Choice with More than 10,000 Radio Stations, No PC Required for Environmentally Conscious Operations, Ideal for Immigrants, Language Learners and Music Lovers, Save Up to 250 of Your Favorite Stations, Built-in Buffer function for Smoother Listening, User Attentive Design, Built-in Sleep Timer and Backlight, Wooden Speaker and Line-out. | | | Features: | |
• Features
• -- Supports 10,000 Worldwide Broadcast Stations
• -- No PC Required for Environmentally Conscious Operations
• -- Save Up to 250 of Your Favorite Stations
• -- Built-in Buffer function for Smoother Listening
| | | Product Details: | | | Product Length:
| 9.84 inches | | Product Width:
| 5.04 inches | | Product Height:
| 7.48 inches | | Product Weight:
| 5.2 pounds | | Package Length:
| 13.5 inches | | Package Width:
| 7.9 inches | | Package Height:
| 6.2 inches | | Package Weight:
| 5.2 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 8 reviews |
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Average Customer Review:
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17 of 17 found the following review helpful:
ASUS Internet RadioMar 27, 2008
By Walter R. Davis
I bought both the ASUS Air Internet Radio and the Tangent Quattro Internet Radio - both are well built and have good sound quality with the Tangent being a little better. Adding stations on the ASUS is possible with a most unhandy method of entering the streaming URL one character at a time from a scrolling list of numbers, letters and characters. An external USB keyboard would have been a great addition!!! The Tangent station list is better and with an email to the Receiva site they can add additional stations to the list. The ASUS has both WIFI and wired Ethernet, while the Tangent is WIFI only. WEP/WPA security can be used on both radios and it is entered on both via the above tedious scrolling list. The ASUS has a remote control making this task just a bit easier. I did find that some stations are resorting to having their own players (like KFI in Los Angeles) and do not make their streaming URL's available - probably so they can add visual advertising! In any case the ASUS is a fine product, but it is difficult to add stations that are not on their list.
6 of 7 found the following review helpful:
 Highly recommendApr 21, 2008
By A. Godwin
Very stylish, and user friendly. Excellent idea, enormous number of stations to choose from. However it has a useless remote control, with a range of only 6cm.
Overall an excellent product.
3 of 3 found the following review helpful:
Good Quality RadioOct 11, 2008
By Omar
This radio offers you very good sound quality, excellent finish, and an easy access to loads of pre-set radio stations with the ability to save up to 250 favourite stations.
Out of the box set-up is straight forward once you manage to navigate through the alphabet to enter your wireless network WPA access key using the volume knob.
The radio has up to 8-sec buffer capacity which meant an almost uninterrupted listening experience for the majority of the stations.
I gave this radio only 3 stars because of the following:
1. The inability to integrate with Reciva Radio restricts you from using the extended search and management of your own station list over the web;
2. Adding a new station is not an easy task which requires manual entry of the station url using the volume knob; and
3. Inability to access PC Media files.
Overall a very good radio that would probably benefit from a firmware upgrade to include additional features.
3 of 3 found the following review helpful:
 Didn't work out of the boxSep 04, 2008
By Allen Birchland
I have a Verizon Actiontec wireless router for my high speed network that works for all of my laptops, printer, etc. This radio COULD NOT connect wirelessly. I contacted the manufacturer to attempt to rectify the problem, and they were no help whatsoever. Borderline rude as a matter of fact. I did hardwire it and it worked, but I found the station availability to be extremely lacking without Reciva access. And I've read that adding stations is "quite the chore" on this set.
The good news is I was able to return it (out the shipping cost, however)
and I received full credit.
Look elsewhere, IMO...
2 of 2 found the following review helpful:
Good, not great, but very goodApr 13, 2010
By Michael D. Collier
"No Telling What I Will Like"
The build quality is not what I've come to expect from Asus, but it's still good and looks great. In the dark art world of wireless networking, the radio was reasonably easy to connect to my home wireless. The wireless router and router are on opposite ends of the house, and I've only got one or two bars, but that is enough for it to work. It can cut-out if you soak up your bandwidth with bittorrent or a massive file transfer, but otherwise, no worries.
If you're a geek like me, it's a great toy. I've easily found several stations to ease into slumber with. Although of dubious value, it is cool to listen to the local news in New Zealand. If you think that sounds like fun, you're gonna have fun with this product.
Overall, I'm pretty tickled with it. I would not necessarily recommend it to a friend because they'd want me to come over and set it up for them. Such is the world of wireless.
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