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Summary: Great Adapter with Awesome New Firmware - Thanks D-Link!!
Review: I recently bought this adapter about a month ago and it installed and runs great with the supplied firmware. I can get some good range and the 128-bit WEP works great. Speeds are fast as well.But now the speeds are even faster thanks to D-Link. All I had to do to get double the speed I used to is download and install the latest drivers. I did this and I was able to transfer files from my desktop to my laptop in half the time. I transfer files (video and MP3s) quite a bit and this extra speed for free is a great perk. Overall this card has caused me zero problems on my XP laptop.
I'd recommend it to others who either already have a DI-624 (D-Link router that supports new fast speeds) or is looking to get an 802.11g setup.
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Summary: Lightning fast after firmware upgrades!
Review: This product is not anything special unless you have the D-link DI-624 Router teamed with the firmware updates on both the Router and the Network Card. After that this product is smokin fast. It is just as fast as having a Cat-5 connection. The firmware updates were pretty self-explanatory, if you have any computer experience at all. Even if you don't I'm sure you have a guru fried that will hook you up. Bottom line if you have a need for speed this product will more than get you there and is easy on the pocketbook. Great product D-Link!
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Summary: No Fuss, No Muss. This card FULL blazes - freestyle!
Review: If I went off of other reviewers information, I would never have purchased this sweet product. After reading other reviews I decided to disregard them and just finally buy it. I plugged it into my Dell Latitude w/ Windows 2000 Professional. Coupled w/ a D-Link DI-624 Router, SBC DSL, and I'm full blazin' the net, freestyle. I have a cordless phone 2.4Ghz... no problems w/ interference. Was plug and play, all the way. If you can install software programs, you can install this.
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Summary: Wires, who needs them!
Review: Thanks to my research on the Internet, I selected this DLink wireless PC Card. And what a great decision it was. It took 20 minutes to install this card in each laptop, and that included the time to download an updated firmware from support.dlink.com that doubled my connection speed! I get great performance, and even maintain acceptable performance on the floor below where the signal must find it was way through several walls and doors. In the same room as my router I get lightening fast performance that appears to be as fast as my wired connections. DLink provides a nice status and config tool as part of installtion, and that really eased the way into verifiying that all was operating properly. You can see signal strength and check on which wireless mode you are operating in. One suggestion, you should enable WEP to add security and encrpytion to your wireless network. It requires changes to both your router and the wireless card(s), but its pretty simple and I did not notice a big performance impact. If you are thinking about going wireless, this is a great card to select.
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Summary: Use latest XP service pack but don't use Dlink driver
Review: Dlink doesn't support WPA-PSK very well with Windows XP. If you are considering using this format, I recommend using another card. Or, you can use the built in Windows XP drivers (after upgrading using Windows Update) and bypass the Dlink utility altogether. This works, but you loose the ability to use the Turbo mode on the card. Dlink support is slow and it appears that it takes them many months to fix bugs in their drivers. Once they release new drivers, they also frequently have bugs. Maybe they will get it right one day, but I don't have any confidence in their support today.
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Summary: XP or 2000 only.
Review: The card says it works with windows 98. Not for me. After fiddling with it for about 10 hours, I installed it in a Win2000 notebook. Worked right away. I also installed the updated driver from Dlink (108Mbs support) and I was dropping the connection every 15 minutes. Went back to the original driver included in the CD-ROM. This card, with the DI-624 router works fantanstic. Setup was easy and trhe wireless connection is 15% faster than the wired 10baseT port on the speed sites. Works fine in any area of the house as well. WEP encryption was easy to setup.
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Summary: Finally Got it Working Good
Review: I bought the DWL-G650 card (Version B4) along with the the 624 Router (Version C1) about 5 weeks ago. I found it very hard to set up. XP Professional was installing its own drivers and would not recognize the D-Link drivers. It took me about 10 hours to resolve that issue. Customer support at D-Link was of no help. Then I had a dropped connection problem and a slow web surfing issue. I recently resolved that issue by upgrading my cable modem for free to a Toshiba PCX 2600. I was using a Toshiba PCX 1000. My point here is that there are so many factors that determine how this card will work for you. I'm getting 108mbps and hope I can continue to enjoy these fast speeds. It's no fun trying to fix things all the time.
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Summary: Don't Bother - It Doesn't Work
Review: I wasted two weeks trying to use this as directed, along with the DI-624 wireless router. I selected the WPA-PSK encryption format for security and found that it worked from 5 minutes to 2 hours at a time. Same thing with the old and fairly INsecure WEP encryption format. I emailed and phone D-Link's tech support line and got responses that did nothing to help in any way. I spent weeks researching and reading ratings penned by numerous others to choose what should have been the best wireless networking gear for my environs only to find D-Link's products a miserable failure, backed up by mediocre, faltering tech support.
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Summary: Good Reliable Notebook Adapter
Review: I had the built in wireless adapter with my laptop I bought but it didn't get the range I wanted. So I did some research and a bunch of people were saying that this card had good range, plus it was I my price range and has fast speeds. Installation was very easy, no worries at all. Then the I immediately saw an increase in range from my old built in adapter. I think it is because this antenna is on the outside of the notebook, and the built in has the antennas somewhere inside the notebook. This card is also very reliable and doesn't drop my connection when I am using it. I've heard other people complaining about this, but I don't see it happing with mine.
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Summary: Lousy; potential speed gain just not worth the tech hassles
Review: I've been trying to get this thing to run for several months now, and it's just not cutting it. Problems accessing multiple access points (corrupts driver, results in blue screen of death - nice debugging, Dlink - *not*), weak signals, and a hopeless implementation of encryption protocols - basically your choices are: secure network that drops connections every few minutes, or an insecure network that works reasonably well. Dlink's tech support tries, but fails. The usual run-around: other drivers, error in upgrade procedure, etc. etc. Then they finally cave and recall the card, sending you a new one with a marginally improved performance. I'm doubly pissed off at Dlink for releasing this lemon since I bought it along with the "official" Dlink SuperG access point/router which works fine. But so did my old router. Unless you're willing to fight to get the thing working and think 108Mbps is worth the (serious) hassle you face, then I'd go with a more stable solution from someone else.
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