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U.S. Robotics USR2410 Wireless Access PC Card

U.S. Robotics USR2410 Wireless Access PC Card

List Price: $99.99
Your Price: $63.88
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Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Use Netgear MA401 driver. It works!
Review: After downloading Netgear MA401driver and install it, as told in one of the former reviews, the card works now!

I found the old driver was OK when connecting in Adhoc mode, but not in Infrastructure mode( with a wireless router or access point). I've tried the 1.3.3 version driver from usr.com, updated firmware, and tried some other compatible driver, all failed.

It did give me lots of hassle. I combated with the card for a week. But considering I got this card for almost FAR ( bought last November), I think I should rate this card as 4 stars

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Best Value Available
Review: After nearly a month of frustrations, I finally found the secret to this card! If you purchase this card, do yourself a HUGE favor, and do not install the US Robotics drivers! Instead, use the Netgear MA401 drivers! These two cards are internally identical, and Netgear actually knows how to make the card work! For the low price, you cannot beat this "Netgear" card! I am a Cisco Certified Networking Associate, and this card gave me nothing but problems until I installed the Netgear drivers. Now I have no problems with the card! Though signal strength is still a little low.

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: It freeze my laptop frequently
Review: Although it works, it will freeze my laptop without any reason. Seems it's safe when the signal isn't too strong(yellow icon). By the way, no news for my rebate application after nearly half an year.

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Couldn't get it to work with the Lucent RG-1000 access point
Review: Currently I have 2 wireless workstations in my house, and both use the Lucent Silver card. For access point, I have the Lucent RG-1000 residential gateway (I know, it's older, but I got into the Wifi game early).

When I wanted to add another wirless workstation to my Wifi network, it was a pleasent surprise to find that the cards no longer costs over a hundred dollars as before. They now cost well under fifty. So I purchased by price and bought the U.S. Robotics wireless card, thinking that they should all interact together.

Once I received this card, I immediately installed the software. As for the management software included, it's pretty standard, but not as nice as the Lucent nor the Linksys. You can set up multiple profiles, but to switch between the profiles is not as easy as with the other two brands.

Then, I spent several hours configuring the WEP configuration on the AP gateway as well as on the card, but couldn't get them to talk to each other. I would consider myself to be technically very competent, having worked with these things since they first become available. But still no dice. Note that I have my RG-1000 configured with WEP turned on, with a custom password.

I then tried a Linksys card (also 128-bit in 64-bit mode), and it worked with my Lucent gear right away as it should.

I give it a 2-star because I'm sure it's compatible with most other environments. But if you have a Lucent RG-1000 and want to expand your wireless network, you may want to look elsewhere. As for me, this card is going to eBay.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Excellent range, good signal strength, works well with Linux
Review: Excellent product. Much better range than Linksys WPC11. Shows much better signal strength than WPC11 at the same location. Took me all the time that it took me to plug it in to my laptop for it to work. I was using WPC11 previously (a Prism2 card), running Linux on my laptop, and since the USR 2410 uses the same chipset, I have the drivers configured already!

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Great Card
Review: For a [price] card (with rebate + coupon + free shipping),this card is great. It took me only 15 min to get it up running with a DLink router.
I recently updated the card to the latest firmware, driver and the configuration utilities. The latest firmware will not work with the old driver so you have to upgrade the driver first then the firmware. I used the uninstall util from USR to uninstall the driver but it didn't work so I had to upgrade the driver from the device manager , rebooted machine, update firmwaret, configuration util then a final reboot to make sure everything
got updated. So far everything is working fine for me.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Not Good for more than 50 Feet.
Review: I bought the card and when I moved my laptop to another room 50 feets away it stopped connecting. Even 900 MHz phone works there.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: I did not receive any mail-in rebate, take care about that!
Review: I did not receive any mail-in rebate, take care about that!

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: It works, but problems setting up.
Review: I finally got the card working on an IBM and Compaq M300. The drivers on the CD are useless. I downloaded the lastest driver from USR, worked on the IBM, but not the compaq. I had to run a firm ware upgrade on the Card before the Compaq M300 would work. Also very limited range. Works in my house fine, but going 2 floors away the signal strength drops considerably. Will not buy another, even at the good price. Using a DI-614+ Wireless Router

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: It works very fine!
Review: I have this card work with DLink Di-614+ and Linksys BEFW11S4. I am pretty happy with it. This card should be the OEM version of Prism2. Linux users can try generic Prism2. The reception rage is quite fair.
The price after rebate is almost equal to a wired network card. It is really a goo deal.


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