Rating: Summary: Great lil card Review: I use this card to get online at University of Virginia, its the only card supported, but they make good choices, so I went ahead and got the card. All I had to do to make it work was to plug it in my laptop's designated card slot, and *poof* XP took care of the rest. The connectivity is great, and its very simple to use.
Rating: Summary: Great lil card Review: I use this card to get online at University of Virginia, its the only card supported, but they make good choices, so I went ahead and got the card. All I had to do to make it work was to plug it in my laptop's designated card slot, and *poof* XP took care of the rest. The connectivity is great, and its very simple to use.
Rating: Summary: Great for 802.11b Review: I used this card for over an year with my powerbook and it worked great with Mac OS X. Cisco did a great job with its client software drivers for most platforms.
The best feature which I miss now with my airport extreme internal card is the ability to change the power rating. With the Aironet 350 you can switch between 1mW, 5mW, 10mW, 15mW, 30mW, 50mW, and 100mW. The ability to control transmit and receive antennas is a great feature for the kind of work I did.
Overall great support on OS X with client software from Cisco. The networks I used although broadcast SSID's, it didn't switch to my saved profiles automatically - rather I had to do this manually with one click. This didn't bother me but the capability for the client was very viable.
Today Cisco has newer and much better products for the wireless realm. Go with some 802.11g and newer protocols (depending on your implementation).
Rating: Summary: Great for 802.11b Review: I used this card for over an year with my powerbook and it worked great with Mac OS X. Cisco did a great job with its client software drivers for most platforms. The best feature which I miss now with my airport extreme internal card is the ability to change the power rating. With the Aironet 350 you can switch between 1mW, 5mW, 10mW, 15mW, 30mW, 50mW, and 100mW. The ability to control transmit and receive antennas is a great feature for the kind of work I did. Overall great support on OS X with client software from Cisco. The one star on this review was lost due to the client driver using more than 13M of memory. This is not an issue anymore with over Gigs of memory in todays systems. Also for the fact that the networks I used although broadcast SSID's, it didn't switch my saved setting automatically - rather I had to do this manually with one click. This didn't bother me but the capability for the client was very viable. Today Cisco has newer and much better products for the wireless realm. Go with some 802.11g and newer protocols (depending on your implementation).
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