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Summary: Poor performance under XP using D-Link WAP
Review: I used this card under Windows 2000 accessing a D-LINK WAP. Installation, setup, configuration, and speed were excellent. I was averaging about 70-90% link quality and around 6Mbps transfer between PC's. The DLInk was connected to a cable modem and speed was amazing. I just got an XP laptop and started using this card. Performance has dropped to aroun 20-40% link quality and MAYBE 1Mbps data transfer. It's almost like being back to dial-up. The drivers released for XP .... I've tried reinstalling, using the config utility, not using the config utility, you name it. I have a small condo and I'm about 50 feet from the WAP as the crow flies. I have a few walls between me and the WAP but that was no problem under Win2K. I'm VERY disappointed in this thing. ...
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Summary: It's cheap and it works. Range could be better.
Review: I own two WPC11's (PC Cards) and a Wireless PCI with a WAP11. Running on Windows 98, Windows 2000, and Windows XP. Haven't had a problem yet with connectivity, unless I'm out of range. I can use it in my two story house, but not in every room. Had a problem with getting 128bit WEP to work, but I finally ironed out the problems. Setup was a breeze, took maybe 10 minutes to get it working. Haven't had a problem with any drivers. Had to call Linksys Tech Support to get clarification on whether the WPC11 would work on an IPAQ w/ PocketPC 2002. Their definitive answer...NOPE! Said I HAD to get a WCF11 (Wireless Compact Flash). Word of advice...don't call their tech support, email them ..., the techs doing email are more knowledgeable by far.
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Summary: Range is horrible- stay away
Review: I can't believe this card gets good reviews. The only time this card was useful for me was when I was using it in the same room as the hub. Stay away from this card.I wasted money on three of these cards and while I had no problem setting them up they have an extremely limited range. Once you get about 20 feet away the connection status drops to poor. Once you have to go through a wall or upstairs/downstairs the link drops entirely. Very very disappointing. I finally bought a CISCO Aironet 350. What a DIFFERENCE! Signal strength is at least 100% better. The client tools are also much better. I can now use my laptop anywhere in the house. I am now looking at replacing the Linksys PCI cards too!
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Summary: WPC11 and XP = Oil and water
Review: It may be the non-certified driver, it may be my audacity in trying to use WEP, but the WPC11 and Windows XP Home Edition have yet to work reliably despite many hours of tweaking and twiddling. Sorry guys, it just should not be this hard.
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Summary: Works Great for me, can't understand the other reviews!
Review: I still cannot understand all the negative reviews on here about both the Wireless 4 port Router / Hub and now the WPC11. Had I gone by the reviews of both of these products, I never would have bought the items. Let me tell you the opposite of these negative reviews on the WPC11. I received the card yesterday, followed the instructions sheet installing the software / drivers first, re-booting, inserting the card, re-booting again once recognized and I was immediately on my network. The total installation took less than 5 minutes and I'm writing this review on my laptop in my living room at 11 Mbps, as advertised. Also, I installed this on Windows 2000. I did not have one problem whatsoever. I am a systems engineer myself but none of my engineering skills were needed other than being able to read the instructions as they were written. I'm not sure why other people have such problems with these items as I've not experienced anything mentioned yet. I'm 100% satisfied with my card and can't say enough about how well it works and how EASY it was to install. I would definitely recommend to anyone. If you don't know much about computers, I suggest you use the linksys site, read the directions a couple of times and get familiar before starting the install. Also, I'm sure you can surf the internet for help in installing it if you run into problems - outside of the liksys site. Good luck and if you're searching for a solid wireless network, Linksys provides a good one!
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Summary: poor customer tech service
Review: The product seems like it's working (finally up with no help from their support people) fine but the customer support was poor. After waiting on hold for 1.5 hours the tech was less than helpful and actualy disconnected the call.
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Summary: Range misleading
Review: I'm mostly pleased with this card. I have one in my laptop, and another in my new desktop with a PCI adapter. I'm not using an Access Point - I use Win98's ICS from the desktop upstairs to the laptop downstairs (or anywhere else in the house.) Since I got these cards, I've had their baud rates set on "fully auto". This works fine for close range, but my suggestion is to NOT do this if you have to go through walls, or are having trouble with the radio signal. After I tried WEP on & off, I finally decided to turn the rate down to 1 Mbits/s. It worked! (so far, anyway) I'm not saying that a higher bitrate wouldn't work, but since DSL is under 2 Mbits/s, it doesn't matter that much. And my final point is that the "auto" didn't work, even when it said it was at 1 or 2 Mbits/s - I had to manually set the rate for it to work with a weak signal. Good luck!
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Summary: Bad Performance on NT; would not work on 2000
Review: Installed on Windows-NT laptop: Even with the link and signal strength reading "excellent" the best through-put I could get was 20KBytes/sec, even though the connection was supposedly 11Mbits/sec. Downloading the same large file from the same site using a Xircom card directly into the router gave 200KBytes/sec. So the 11Mbit/sec was meaningless. And this was with the laptop in the same room as the Linksys WAP11 access point. The bottom line is the configuration tools connection speed metrics don't really mean anything; the proof is in the actual download speeds. Installed on Windows 2000: On another Windows 2000-based laptop I could never get a connection no matter what I tried to do. I even tried to update the drivers, but they were already the latest. As a last resort I updated the WAP11 firmware from 1.4g to 1.4f. That was the critical mistake. After the firmware update went seemingly smoothly, when I started the configuration utility, I could see it had mangled all the pervious settings to the piont that some of the dropdown boxes (the one that selects the channel number in particular) no longer had any drop-down selections, so it was impossible to make any configuration changes, and who knows what actual values the box was actually using at that point. Needless to say, I didn't get any connectivity. After fiddling with it for another hour or so, I finally gave up and returned both the WAP11 and the WPC11. I was surprised this went so badly concidering the Linksys router I have has worked flawlessly and had an effortless install and configuration. The WAP11 at first seemed the same, until I was severly disappointed with the WPC11 performance, and finally the disasterous firmware upgrade. I no longer trust their products and the online help and documentation is cursory at best. I guess I'll check out Netgears products next. 2 stars since there was at least poor performance on NT.
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Summary: Limited range makes it unusable!
Review: I bought and installed this card with the Linksys 802.11b wireless router on a Win98 laptop. I wanted to have some mobility around the house. The installation went OK and I had a connection sitting at a desk 1 meter away from the AP. But as soon as I took the laptop and went to the bedroom (~15meters), the connection was lost. It didn't even work in the hallway to the office room. I had to return the card, but kept the router. I'm still looking for a card replacement. Want to try Orinoko or Cisco, but the local stores don't have them and I'm wary of wasting the shipping charges online again.
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Summary: Remember to configure it to infrastructure not ad hoc
Review: I have the Linksys 4 port router. I bought the access point and the PC card for my Gateway 9300 laptop. Got everything running in under an hour. Based on the tips I read throughout the reviews I remembered to configure the PC card to infrastructure from Ad Hoc -- Bingo! The card worked great. I live in a two story house. The access point is in my basement which is finished. I use the laptop mostly in my 1st floor family room the opposite side of the house. I've had no problems with connect speed. I am using Windows XP on the laptop. I would agree with some of the other reviewers about lack of experience. I am no computer guru, but with careful examination of some of the other better written comments, I believe you should be able to get your PC card configured and operating in under two hours. I never had the pleasure of calling Linksys tech support and hopefully won't have to. So far I can only give high praise to the interoperability of the Linksys Router with the access point and PC card.
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