Weather Direct WD-3105U Internet-Powered Wireless Weather Station by La Crosse Technology, Titanium
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Web-based 4-day wireless weather forecaster with service for over 60,000 locationsDisplays daily temperature forecasts, sky conditions, with 6-hour updates; in/out tempsCustomizable weather data and alerts sent via email; self-setting clock with custom alarmGateway connects to any router; broadcasts to display device up to 300 feet awayIncludes gateway LAN cable and AC adapter for router connection, wireless thermometer
Product Description
The Weather Direct WD-3105U features Forecast for 60,000 locations, 4 Day Forecast with daily sky conditions, HI and Low daily temperature, wireless outdoor temperature, Indoor temperature, time and date auto setting, with alarm setting.
Spotlight Customer Reviews:
Summary:
Same Song Different Customer
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Same problems as everyone else. Temperatures are off usually by about 10 degrees. The forecast signal drops off on a regular basis and and reestablishing the wireless connection is voodoo. Just stick your hand outside and save your money on this waste of technology
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Not worth the money
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I bought this product about eight months ago for its convenience so I wouldn't have to boot my computer to check the forecast. It worked for about 3 months. Then the weather data from the web started getting intermittent, until it stopped altogether.
I tried everything, factory reset, using the so call "Advanced Gateway Setup software". No luck, I always get the 3-blink LED pattern, meaning the device couldn't contact the data server.
I called the service number (and it is not even toll free!!!). No one answered. I left messages. No one ever got back.
Now I have just the indoor and outdoor temperature display. There are many products for doing this for just 1/4 of the price I paid for it. So my advice to prospective buyers, "Don't buy this product. Since you already have Internet connection, you PC and web browser can give you weather information around the world for FREE!
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works great for about six months so far
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I purchased this unit about six months ago and I've had no issues. Note that I am not using the remote temperature unit, just the web based unit. Maybe I'm lucky seeing that others have had problems. My wireless unit is plugged into my Airlink 101 brand router in the basement and the receiver is on the second floor with no reception issues.
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JUNK and NO Service
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I received this item for a Christmas Gift and it hasn't work from the day I hooked it to the Internet.....What a piece of junk this is....It goes off every thirty day and I have to call Weather Direct and it takes the about 45 min to get it working again....And next month its the same thing....It has been Five months now and it is off again.....called and requested a New One, but to this date I haven't received it....I all so ordered the Severe Weather Program and paid for it and now that money is a waste......Too bad this item was a gift, I would demand my money back from them.....
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Disillusionment day...by day...by day
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Having owned the Weather Direct 3105U for four months, I thought I had found a reliable weather forecasting product, but data streaming into the weather station from the Internet gateway began evaporating on a daily basis, starting with Day 4 to the current date. No amount of resets of the gateway or the weather station would correct the problem. I'm done with LaCrosse products and won't attempt to return it to the place of purchase.
A former experience with LaCrosse customer support on a previous, simpler weather station, would lead me to believe that any attempt at contact could take weeks or months before a response to the dilemma would be addressed.
Ordinarily a non-working product might get just one star, but in this case I'm opting for two stars because I'm still getting an accurate indoor temperature reading...but that's about it. Apparently some units work and others, like mine, simply poop out after a few weeks or months of use.
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NEW THOUGHTS: My weather station is back to working well again. The much maligned Technical Support of LaCrosse provided a remedy that involved deleting the Gateway and the Weather Station from the Weather Direct website and then performing a factory reset on both units. Once this was accomplished and the Gateway reregistered on the Weather Direct website, both pieces of hardware functioned normally. Supposedly the troubleshooting information was part of a knowledge database--a database that I and other LaCrosse users have not been able to locate. What caused the original days to gradually disappear and the weather station to lose communication with the Gateway still remain a mystery, however.
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