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The drive works fine. You are all experiencing disconnects because your computers see this device as a USB peripheral. While this is technically true, this wireless USB networking device that require to have power 100% of the time. Computers treat USB peripherals dynamically meaning that when they are idle, your computer cuts off power to them. To prevent this from happening, go to your computer's Control Panel found in the start menu and open DEVICE MANAGER. Scroll down to NETWORK ADAPTERS and hit the arrow next to it. Right Click Linksys AE2500 and select properties. Next, go to the Power Management tab and DESELECT "allow computer to turn of this device to save power". Click OK and the device will no longer lose power and disconnect.