Rating: 
Summary: Works fine for my HP XP notebook
Review: For the most part, I'm satisifed with this product. I installed this on my HP notebook, running XP Pro. Intially, I had problems getting it to work on my notebook. The installation screwed by TCP/IP so I could not connect to the web. Through some research, I figured out that I must uninstall my Sygate firewall prior to the installation, install the card, then re-install my firewall. This was consistent with a Linksys card installation I did before. After I got it running, it works pretty good. I have it connected to my Linksys router with 128-bit WEP.
Some say that when you take out the card, then put it back in, that you will have to re-enter the WEP key. I had this issue at first, but I no longer have this problem. What I do is that I'll keep the card out while I boot up my PC. When my PC is fully booted, I will then insert the card. XP will read it, and then I'm online without entering the WEP key. Sometimes I do have to manually connect by clicking connect, but rarely will I have to re-enter the WEP key.
Pros:
Low priced, keeps its signal about 95% of the time, speed is fast and acceptable.
Cons:
Signal strength is lower than I expected. Being downstairs right under the router, strength will be between 65-80%. But even though the signal is low, my connection speed is still good.
Rating: 
Summary: No Range
Review: I've had a wireless connection in my house for three years and after getting a new computer and connecting it to this card my reception is terrible. Even 20 feet away the signal is weak. You have to sit next to the router to make this card work so you might as well just plug in.
Rating: 
Summary: Okay for a budget
Review: I needed a card that would help me get a signal from a basement to the second story of a house. This card gave me 3 out of 5 on signal strength, and in some places didn't get any signal. I read about a lot of cards and ended up getting an Orinoco card instead (I got this one in a package purchase.) The Orinoco card is more expensive, but it gives me 5 out of 5 for signal strength everywhere in my house. If signal strength is a concern for your use, or your going for max distance, you may have some problems with this card.
Rating: 
Summary: Pretty Shoddy
Review: I suppose the range etc. are fine - I haven't tested it directly against other cards but qualitatively performance seems fine.It has an annoying installation where you have to have the CD-ROM available at the same time as the card. If you are installing on a laptop without a CD-ROM, by sharing the drivers from a networked CD-ROM, this will make installation more annoying and mystical. It has a very stupid and irritating constantly brightly flashing "active" light during normal operation. It installs a utility which can only be run by administrative users, but tries to run itself under any user, so that normal users get a stream of error windows filling their screen. It's very stupid in this day and age to assume that everyone on a machine will have administrative privileges. All in all, a thoroughly disappointing purchase. I've had good luck with D-Link products before, so the general lousiness of this particular one surprises me.
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