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Summary: I moved my access point
Review: I was very unhappy with my wireless card too. I read some reviews and decided to move my Linksys wireless access point. I moved it as high as I could get it. I put it on top of my entertainment center. I had it in the basement close to where the phone came in to the house. I also sent an email to Linksys asking about changing the channel on the access point. It improved only a little. It's strange, but it worked. I can now go outside with my laptop. In the house I can go anywhere, even in the basement where the access point was and get 86% or better. I had to buy $20 of wire to move the access point. I can use this wire to connect directly to my network when moving big files from one computer to another while watching TV. So leave it a little longer then you need.
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Summary: Great product!
Review: I read this editorial right after placing the order, and negative comments here got me little worry about possible poor signal performance. After having all set up, it works great! Signal is strong all over my fairly decent size house, and never fell below 48%. Perhaps previous versions card had poor performance, as mine is Version 3.0. I am using Linksys Wireless 4-Port as base as well.
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Summary: A great product1!
Review: I read this editorial right after placing the order, and some negative comments here got me little worry about possible poor performance. After having all set up, it works great! Signal is strong all over my fairly decent size house, and never fell below 48%. Perhaps previous versions card had poor performance, as mine is Version 3.0. I am using Linksys Wireless 4-Port as base as well.
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Summary: Linksys PC Card v3 - Don't Do It
Review: I am an IT professional with 14 years of experience. I have the Linksys wireless hub and love it. I have been using the Orinoco PC card with the hub and have been very pleased. I bought a new Dell laptop for my wife. I bought the Linksys PC Card v3 to connect the Dell laptop to the network. The Linksys PC Card's performance is (bad). I have now tried the Orinoco and Linksys cards head to head in the Dell computer. Where the Orinoco card gets a good signal, the Linksys card gets a poor signal. It also appears that the Linksys driver locks up the Dell laptop when restoring from a sleep or hibernate state. I have not experienced the lock ups with the Orinoco. I attempted to update the firmware in the Linksys card, but I couldn't get the upgrade program to work, it was looking for some system files that did not exist. Do not buy this card, even if you have had success with other Linksys products.
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Summary: Good tech support, but still can't get it to work in XP
Review: It worked fine for Windows 2000, but not for the WinXP SP1 on my Toshiba laptop. If not for the responsiveness of the tech support on a weekend, I would give it 1 only star. I was on the phone for more than 1 hour; I already tried everything that they suggested prior to calling them. Still cannot get it to work - I returned it the next day.
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Summary: Works well, but a true pain to configure with Windows XP
Review: The card works well, gets good reception, and is rather sturdy (important if you keep inserting and ejecting it from your laptop each day). But my version3 card did not ship with proper drivers and instructions for Windows XP Professional, which meant I spent well over an hour to get it all configured with WEP encryption. I wouldn't recommend this card for technical novices, unless they've updated the drivers and instructions in the last month or so.
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Summary: TERRIBLE UPGRADE
Review: I was first introduced to this version 3.0 a few weeks ago. Version 2.5 is great, this 3.0 is awful. I have had to return TWO of them and am now looking for a 2.5.DON'T BUY THE 3.0, LOOK FOR THE 2.5 VERSION!! I am not sure what the "upgrades" are but if the card doesn't work, why does it matter???
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Summary: Do Not Buy for Toshiba laptop
Review: This card froze my computer when I tried to remove it, when the system went into hibernation mode, and when I tried to shut down. I installed the newest driver available. I could not install the firmware from Linksys's website, as that froze my computer. Linksys's support came to the conclusion that the PCMCIA slots in my notebook are bad (both of them). Toshiba blames Linksys for the problem. The final analysis: Don't buy this card for a Toshiba laptop! If you don't believe me look at Toshiba's online service forum and do a search for WPC11. Many people have had the same problem. Linksys and Toshiba products don't work well together.
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Summary: Doesn't work with NT
Review: If you have an NT machine, keep looking. I couldn't even get the configuration utility to load...
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Summary: Great customer support
Review: I purchased the wireless card to go in my new Toshiba Satellite. I followed the directions but the pc kept locking up. I called their 24 hour tech support. I had previously (15 minutes previously) been on the phone with them and they were able to walk me through setting up the wireless access point router. To my dissapointment I will have to free up or manually assign an IRQ address. Thankfully I have an IBM thinkpad and it worked wonderfully. ...Tech support with Linksys is great. I sent an email to them last night after 12:00 to let them know how dissapointed I was and I had a reply this morning sometimes before 6:00 am. Wonderful tech support .... Get the product simply for the tech support. It also works great also.
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