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D-Link DCF-660w Wireless CompactFlash Adapter

D-Link DCF-660w Wireless CompactFlash Adapter

List Price: $99.99
Your Price: $74.99
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Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Flaky
Review: Bought this with a Dlink AP and a the 650+ PCMCIA card. The 650+ works great. The 660W only works when the 650+ is active. Otherwise, it will get a connection to the AP, but will not get an IP (or if I assign a static one, it will not ping even the AP). Not happy with it.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Zaurus Owners PLEASE READ!
Review: Do NOT buy this card if you own a Zaurus. There are a number of documented issues...the most important being that inserting the card will *NOT* cause the Z to recognize the NIC. There's a seating problem in the CF slot with this card and you actually have to wedge something (I'm using paper) in between the back of the card and the Z to get it recognized. A real pain, which overtime will definitely wear out your slot. Go with something else!

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Decent little card
Review: Good card, easy setup (Dell Axim 5). The card works fine... but only if Pocket PC worked better.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Fails within 3 months
Review: I bought the card for My iPaq 2215 so I could surf wirelessly while watching football, it lasted about the length of football season (I bought mid-season for $75).

The site says it doesn't support Mobile 2003 for PPC but then claims to work on the device (it did). But now that it stopped working tech (ha ha) support claims they don't support that configuration (it's too new??) Give me a break, the product is obviously defective. But they just bail on the customer. Last time I buy D-Junk.

UPDATE - I continue to request an RMA from D-link and the response via e-mail simply is to call, you call, you get the "it's not supported" line. You e-mail, you get the "it could be defective and you should call" - All I really want is an RMA or my $75 back.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Fails within 3 months
Review: I bought the card for My iPaq 2215 so I could surf wirelessly while watching football, it lasted about the length of football season (I bought mid-season for $75).

The site says it doesn't support Mobile 2003 for PPC but then claims to work on the device (it did). But now that it stopped working tech (ha ha) support claims they don't support that configuration (it's too new??) Give me a break, the product is obviously defective. But they just bail on the customer. Last time I buy D-Junk.

UPDATE - I continue to request an RMA from D-link and the response via e-mail simply is to call, you call, you get the "it's not supported" line. You e-mail, you get the "it could be defective and you should call" - All I really want is an RMA or my $75 back.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Nice little gadget
Review: I bought this for my Sharp Zaurus. Works great; doesn't need a driver installed; doesn't block the stylus or the headphone jack; gives pretty decent performance. Only real problem is a bug in the standard, not the device: WEP is about as effective as hanging a "please do not steal" sign on the Hope Diamond before leaving it on a bench in Central Park. If you're going to set up any kind of wireless LAN, get yourself a VPN--I'm running PPP over SSH, and I'm fairly confident nobody's going to break into my LAN or hijack my external link.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Great little card
Review: I got this card for my Dell Axim, and it's pretty good. I'm very pleased with ease of installation, quality of signal, and battery life lasts a couple of hours on my Axim. I recommend it against any other card out there(except Symbol and Socket, which are excellent cards but cost almost twice as much). D

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Good card with a stable, long range connection
Review: I have an Hewlett-Packard iPAQ 2215 and I was looking for a wireless card to connect to my campus's wireless network. This is a pretty good card, like most D-Link products are. It can establish and maintain a connection very well, both indoors and outdoors. The software comes on a CD, which is active-synched to your PDA. It is a fairly simple and routine procedure to setup the card to access the network.

So far the only complaint I have is that you sometime have to push the card in hard in order for the PDA to pick it up. I occationally have to pull the card out and reinsert it before it starts working.

If you don't have a PDA already, I would recomend getting one with integrated wireless since you won't have the reciever end sticking out of the PDA. However, if you are just looking for a wireless card, then I would recomend this one.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Works wonders
Review: I have recently bought one of these as well and I must say I am impressed. I didn't think I'd get this kind of range, but I do. I can be almost on the other side of the house and still get good signal. Plus the installation was a breeze.

I recommend this for anyone who wants to take their handheld wireless via their compact flash slot.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Works well
Review: I have this CF card running on a 56XX series IPAQ with the upgraded PocketPC 2002 OS. HUGE TIP- unless the disk they are sending has updated drivers, download the drivers from Dlink. It isn't that the older drivers on the CD don't work (they do), but the new drivers on the website add tons of funcionality such as an Orinoco like icon on the bottom of the today screen that monitors signal strength. It also adds the ability to browse AP's within the DCF-660W's reach (hotspot searches). These (as well as the old ones) installed flawlessly and after a soft reset to load the drives worked well once the proper IP, SSID, and WEP settings were set.

I find the range from my router, a Dlink 614+, decent for such a small device, but definitely shorter that my old lucent chipped Orinoco and Avaya PCMCIA WiFi cards. A great product overall, time will tell how well it holds up.


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