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D-Link AirPlus DWL-650+ Wireless 22 Mbps PC Card

D-Link AirPlus DWL-650+ Wireless 22 Mbps PC Card

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Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Worth the money!
Review: I have had this card for about 6 months now and it works very well even after when there have been physical damages to it. Only problem I noticed is that it consumes more power.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Terrible wireless card - screw D-Link
Review: I used this card for one year in the library of my university - and I always had problems obtaining a stable connection. I thought it was because of the signal. Then I used other friend's laptop there - one with a Netgear card, one IBM T41 with built-in wireless, geez, they all worked so well. So, the conclusion is: this D-Link just sucks! I am dumping mine and getting a new one.

Don't buy D-Link. Never.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Works with Linux - no problem
Review: I saw several reviews say it doesn't work which is right! since no official support but there is this great site that provides a way to make it work -> acx100.sf.net

And I have been using the dwl-650+ for the past 6 months on Linux (Debian) without any problem at all. As a matter of fact, the acx100.sf.net's method (there's a script that loads and starts everything) makes it works painlessly.

There's nothing I can complain about the card hence I give it a perfect rating.

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: WARNING: Not Linux compatible
Review: This uses a TI chipset which TI refuses to release any information about to the Linux driver writers. Thus it is unlikely to ever be Linux compatible. It seems to work okay under Windows XP, but I try not to support jerks and you can get a much faster Wireless-G card for not much more nowdays, so it's definitely *not* recommended.

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: It doesn't really work for Windows-XP
Review: I bought the DWL-650+ a few months ago for my old laptop computer. Recently I bought a new HP notebook with Windows XP and Athlon XP-M 2500+. The wireless card works fine when I use AC power for the new notebook. However, once I switch to battery power, it freezes the computer. I downloaded the latest driver from D-Link web site, spent many hours installing/uninstalling the driverand, and tried to figure out what was wrong. But it simply didn't work. Finally I gave up, and purchased a Netgear WG511 card. The WG511 works fine, only it loses connection to my D-Link DI-614+ quite frequently, which I don't know why yet. But at least it's working and doesn't feeeze my notebook.


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