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Summary: SWEET... VERY SWEET! EASY AND FAST WAY TO GET WIRELESS
Review: Purchased this and a Wireless Access Point and was surfing the net in 5 minutes! Just don't forget to download the updated drivers first... very new technology and still changing. Check to see what kind of PCMCIA device is in your laptop and if it is a Texas Instrument version be sure to download the correct drivers. Download, installation and checking on my PCMCIA device were included in the 5 minutes noted above. This is a great product. I've seen other wireless networks at my friends' houses and they were slow 10mb versions... the 54g products are nearly as fast as my wired network. I've ripped all the wires out of my house already... except for my wife's old iMac that is still hardwired. Forgot to mention that if you use ZoneAlarms (the freeware version) you will have to kill it before you can get connected to your network. Buy the Linksys 54g setup and you will like it.
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Summary: Ahh the conveinience....
Review: This gets five stars for ease of installation, design, speed of data transfer, and most importantly, lets me go where I want to with out my trail of wires following me. Inside, outside, upstairs, downstairs, have not yet found a place around our 3 acre property, including in the barns where I can not access the internet.
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Summary: Problematic for Some Laptops
Review: I have purchased two of these LINKSYS cards for two seperate Toshiba Satellite laptops. I also purchased the Linksys WAP54G Access Point. DAY 1: Laptop 1: Toshiba Satellite 1905-S805 Installed like the directions said (Windows XP) and it didn't work. Just for giggles I then installed the program they tell you NOT to install with Windows XP and everything started working beautifully. Great signal strength, Encrypted 128 bit mode. No problems at all. In fact, I drove almost an entire city block and could still get signal. Laptop 2: Toshiba Satellite 2415-S205 Installed like the directions said (Windows XP) and it didn't work. As above I tried the software they said not to install but this time it DIDN'T work either. Unistalled that and the device, started over. Tried every trick and tweak listed on several different support sites and nothing. Called tech support at Linksys and started out on the wrong foot as this guy could barely speak English. He had extreme difficulty understanding me. He had me do all the things I had previously done and still couldn't get it to work. His solution. "Call Toshiba". DAY 2-3: Still working on this and I think I have 4 hairs left on my head. In all I've put in about 30 hours working on this. No help from Linksys. I'm about to go back and try another brand of wireless card, or maybe just get a 802.11b card since this is for my girlfriends computer not mine. It works fine on mine, but not hers. If I do have the software installed that came with it, on her computer, on the first window where it would usually show the two green bars of strength, I get the following message; "No association with AP" When I do the Site Survey it finds the SSID name and shows it to be at 100% signal strength.
Network Type Infrastructure
Channel 6
WEP on
MAC......
Surveyed at (some irrelevant time) Each time I hit connect, it resets the WEP to 64 bit and I have to change it to 128 bit and redo my passphrase. It again pops me back into the Link Information tab and says "No association with AP". I then click on the Pofiles tab and it shows the default profile is my previously names SSID with:
Network Type - Infrastructure
Transfer Rate - Auto
Channel - (OK, why doesn't this one say 6 like the other)
WEP 128 Bits I curious why it doesn't detect channel 6 on this tab. In all an extremely frustrating purchase and I am currently on day 6 awaiting further email support from either Toshiba or Linksys. Research before you buy. It may not work with yours.
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Summary: Great value, great performance
Review: The Linksys 802.11g PCM card offers exceptional performance in a very reasonable price. The throughput is excellent, in both 802.11g and .11b mode, installation is simple, it just works! I've used it with Linksys and other (dlink, Cisco) WAPs and it works flawlessly.
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Summary: Very Nice Product
Review: I *really* like this wireless card. I had it up and running in a Dell C-400 laptop running Win2000 with my Linksys WAP 54G access point and older Linksys BEFSR41 DSL Router in under 10 minutes, under 45 minutes with full security implementation. It has great signal strength throughout my house and in my yard. It does not affect my battery life too much, and I do not drop offline. Throughput with the rest of my home network is consistantly at 48Mbps, occasionally drops to 36Mbps. The one problem I thought I had was solved by shutting down my DSL modem, router, WAP, and the laptop, then bringing them all back online.
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Summary: Great card
Review: Nice card. You truly won't need it if all you are doing is going out to the Internet via DSL/Cable since the bottleneck there is the DSL/Cable at 1/10th the speed of the 802.11b (yes "B") cards. If you are going from one machine at home to another machine at home (home networking), the difference between 802.11g and 802.11b is an asset when transferring large files such as video. BTW, in the review below, substitute the word megaBITS for the word megaBYTES. No, 802.11g is NOT 54 megaBYTES per second. It is 54 megaBITS (which works out to about 5.5-6.5 megabytes) per second.
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Summary: Good Stuff!
Review: Well, I can't say that my experience has been all good. I bought the card as well as the 54G router. I didn't seem to have any luck for about the first hour I had the product. But that is about all the trouble I had. It kept dropping offline. But then I tweaked it out a bit and has worked like a dream ever since. In fact I have not dropped offline at all since then and the signal has a pretty good range. Just the other night I sat outside and barbecued while surfing and downloading. What more can you ask for? Plain and simple, if you know what you are doing, you won't have any trouble with it. It works great and would highly recommend it.
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Summary: dififcult setup with Airport base
Review: Installation was easy on HP laptop running XP (Home), got immediate detection of signal from my Apple Airport Base Station (I have been successfully running Airport network with several machines in my house for more than a year). Although the Linksys Wireless-G was clearly talking to the Airport, it wasn't getting a correct IP or DNS via DHCP. I was saved by another poster here who wrote: "Getting the 128 bit WEP configuration to work required asking a consultant for help. Apparently, you must enter the long security code versus the network access password. This obscure nuance was not obviously noted in the manual or on line documentation." Reset the WEP password on the Airport, specified that in a control panel on the laptop and everything worked. Compared to installing a wireless card on a Mac, this was ridiculously difficult. But it now works. ***** for performance, great range and * for setup, which averages to *** rating overall.
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Summary: Brilliant! But has WEP issues with XP
Review: This product is Brilliant if you do not use the WEP feature of Windows XP. Apparently XP does not like Phrase Passwords and does not know how to handle HEX that easily too. So I recommend just using all the LinkSys control features instead
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Summary: Doesn't install on all laptops.
Review: The card installed nicely on my Dell Inspiron, but
the installation hung on my HP Pavilion (several
people have described similar experiences). Updated drivers on the website didn't work either.
Interesting neither Linksys nor HP have mentioned
this in their support databases. Given the number
of responses this can't be a fluke.
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