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Summary: Works with Mandrake Linux
Review: Within ten minutes of getting this home and plugged into a Sony Vaio PCG-F370 laptop Running Mandrake Linux 8.2, I was up and running. Mandrake Control Center was able to recognize and use a wizard to configure. This is after finding almost no specific documentation on using almost any wireless nic under GNU/Linux.
Linksys and other strong consumer market oriented manufacturers would do well to begin strongly supporting Linux very soon.
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Summary: Real tricky thing for configuration
Review: I bought this card for using in our University. I don't know any information for the access point. At first no signal can be received at the default configuration. When I asked my friends, they changed the default SSID from "Linksys" to the name of our university, it works!
Later on I found the SSID can be changed to "Any" if your don't know exactly which SSID is correct for you.
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Summary: Best bang for your buck, easy to set up
Review: I needed to get myself a wireless PC card to take advantage of the wireless network they have at the school I am attending at night, so I did my homework: saw what cards were supported by IT and out of those, which were not too pricey, yet well ranked in Amazon. This was the best I could come up with, and I don't regret having purchased one. It was absolutely easy to set up. In no time I was surfing the Web without wires.At some point in the future I will get the wireless router that goes with it, to avoid the ugly-looking cable I run through the house when we want to use the laptop while away from the study room, but for now I am extremely happy with my wireless card at school.
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Summary: The Easiest Thing to Network Your Home
Review: I originally purchased this LinkSys Wireless Network Card about 6 months ago. I had a terrible time setting it up in my apartment and couldn't get more than about 3 feet of range from it. I was having terrible problems with my wireless phone as well with the phone constantly channel surfing to get reception. I have since then, purchased a new home and suddenly I find myself more than 75 feet away, 5 walls, and a whole floor away from my access point, and yet I am writing this review happily on my laptop via the LinkSys wireless network PC card. I can wander around the entire house surfing the internet with my laptop. Although the link quality states poor in some portions of the house (like right now for instances) I don't notice ANY difference in the connection speed while surfing the internet. I have determined that the apartment complex had severe interference from the other 8 apartments that I shared either upstairs, downstairs, walls, floors, or ceilings with. Bottom line, if you own a home and have little to no interference, you will be THRILLED with the performance of the LinkSys wireless network. Remember to blame your environment for the problems before you start pointing to the LinkSys products.
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Summary: Great Product at a good price
Review: This is the best product that I found on the current market at an affordable price...It's so easy to setup, great connection. Best use with LinkSys Wireless router. Highly Recommended.
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Summary: Freezes up my computer
Review: I bought 2 LinkSys Wireless Cards. I followed the installation instruction and installed both cards and the LinkSys Wireless router in less than 15 minutes. When I use the card on my Toshiba Tecra after 1 or 2 hours the computer freezes, and the only way out is to hard reset. I am running Windows XP. This problem is consistent and annoying. It also happens when I switch to another LinkSys Wireless Card. I called the LinkSys support and I was put on hold <30 minutes, until I gave up. I did throw away the box (package) and I do not know if I can return it. I have also ordered a Netgear wireless. Hopefully I may be lucky this time.
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Summary: Beware
Review: This card works well - though I've never had to call Linksys support. One thing to be aware of is that 128-bit WEP encryption isn't.
By which I mean WEP is _not_ equivalent security to wired. There is a flaw in the encryption model which is now well understood.
(Search on Google for more information). If you use this card, use SSH or another secure protocol layer and use _only_ that to prevent passwords being grabbed. If you
don't understand what I just wrote, maybe wireless isn't your best option. If you beleive in 'community internet' and leave your access point unguarded for anyone passing by (or ten miles away with a
Pringles-can antenna) then fair play to you. Just be aware that what others do with your bandwidth will ultimately be your responsibility.
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Summary: obsolete
Review: this card is obsolete now that there is 802.11g don't waste your time with this product if you have large video file transfers you need to do between computers. there is big difference between 45 mps and 11 mps....
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Summary: Very Good Product
Review: this procuct is very good you can set it up to connect to multiple wireless access points. it was a little tough getting it to connect to the wap11 version 2.2 but when linksys came out with a firmware upgrade all the connection problems were resolved. Kudos go out to linksys for putting out a great product that does not put you into the poor house and always taking care of thier customers.
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Summary: can I give negative stars?
Review: I purchased this item with a linksys wireless access point. Got the access point working quickly, but simply could not get the linksys card to connect. The card was detecting the signal, but couldn't finish the job. I tried to find troubleshooting info in the supplied materials and on linksys's website, nothing. Then I did a newsgroup search and it appears alot of people have had this problem. This hardware revision of the linksys wireless card is incompatible with the linksys access point! After linksys tech support wasted my time with a run around support call I went out and purchased the Netgear card. Amazon currently sells it for about [price] more. And it's not just a matter of working [price]better, it just works! Popped it in and had it working in 5 minutes. The access point works great, and is probably easier to configure than other brands, but I will never buy another card from linksys.
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