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Summary: No problems (now) with Windows XP
Review: I've had a wireless network for over a year but the signal strength of my connection has always been poor once I get very far from my router so I thought I'd try this card.It's great. I did have some initial problems with it and my router despite following all the directions in their manual. I called SMC's technical support line though and got great help. Turns out that with my Windows XP SP 1 system, despite directions and suggestions to the contrary, the High Power Utility software that comes with the card caused problems. On my system. While I could see that I had a strong connection between the card and the router the card could not reliably get an IP address back from the router. After uninstalling everything - the utility and driver, and then just installing the driver - no High Power Utility - my Internet connection started working! Reliably. I can go all over our house and yard and get a good strong signal. It's amazing. The card works and the support I got from SMC, while I wish I had not needed it, was wonderful. 5 stars!
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Summary: sweet card with good signal boost
Review: if you struggle with marginal connections in your house, this sucker will definitely help. I tried a D-Link and a LinkSys, and both put out 15dB of signal, and was not enough.
This card rocks, and if 23dB is not enough, add an omnidirectional antenna, and get the legal limit 36dB!
Rating:
Summary: Just works.
Review: Plugged this into my 400 Mhz 1st generation Apple Tibook. Installed the $20 802.11b wireless driver form ioxperts.com. Set DHCP. Done and working. This has easily double and almost triple the effective range of the internal airport card. Highly recommended.
Rating:
Summary: for better range/stability
Review: way better than the dlink dwl-g650 rev b i bought which wasn't picking up any signals... i'd have to work near the router in order to get a signal. i think the card was defective. i didnt have any problems installing this smc card on windows xp, put in the cd that came with the card (and i did not install their utility), plugged in the card while my laptop was on, windows asked for drivers, automatically searched and found the drivers which were on the cd. so far im getting 'excellent' signal strength from where i used to get annoying "low"/"no connection available".
Rating: 
Summary: Does not work with WinXP and poor customer support
Review: Well, it cost me a bit of money, but I know not to buy SMC ever again. After trouble-free use (with limited reception range) of several other 802.11b cards, I read a good review of the 2532W, loved the idea of a high-power card, and quickly bought it without checking on compatibility. This card did not work at all with my WinXP notebook (standard Dell C400 Latitude). It doesn't seem to play well with Windows XP and the SMC configuration utility won't work on my system. A search on the web turns up others having problems with their drivers for Win XP, and some have turned to Zcomax (the real manufacturer, the 2532 is probably just a repackaged Zcomax XI-325HP). SMC support is dreadful. They sent me a 2632 card, which also doesn't work, probably because of their software, and have now claimed my returns have vanished after FedEx pickup. Each call to customer support requires wading through endless "push 1", "push 3" and lengthy automated commentary, only then to wait 20 minutes before hanging up the phone in disgust. This may be a great card if you have a Win 98/NT, but think twice if you are a Win XP user.
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