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Summary: Easy Install and Works Great
Review: The day I purchased this item i had to go directly home and try it out. I already had the extra eathernet cable so i hooked it up to my switch/gateway and i plugged it in. Then by following hte instructions I installed everything just fine(Software, Drivers, Hardware) There was really nothing to it. Although I did have to change networking info on my laptop so I could gain access to the Network here at home, but that is mandatory if you change networks. By the end of the day I was sitting on my couch watching TV and surfing the internet on my laptop, while upstairs my cable modem and Access point provided my with my constant connection. It was like something off of TV. I feel so special now. Soon I hope to get my friends over with their wireless adapters in their laptops and we can have a wireless LAN party.
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Summary: Wireless Nightmare!
Review: The documentation is so bad and so confusing that I'd rather be wired up now. It took 3 computer literate people 4 hours of work and still not working.
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Summary: Do not upgrade the firmware!!!
Review: The unit worked correctly out of the box. However, I wanted to use the 128 bit WEP encription. So, I downloaded the latest firmware from the D-Link web site. I also noticed that this unit is now discontinued. After it was installed, the unit started dropping the connection when the remote computers try to transmit large files to the access point. The customer service at D-Link imediately went into denyal mode and said "it was an interferance problem problem". I tried to explaine that this problem only occured AFTER I upgraded the firmware, but the tech would not deviate from his obviously rehearsed responce. After reviewing many web pages, I found out this is a common problem after the firmware update. I would highly advise anyone to avoid this and all D-Link products due to poor customer service. However, the unit does work out of the box. If you do buy one, DO NOT load the firmware update. It is better to live with the 64bit (40bit) encoding. I gave up and replaced this unit with a US Robotics USR2249 which works great.
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Summary: Do not upgrade the firmware!!!
Review: The unit worked correctly out of the box. However, I wanted to use the 128 bit WEP encription. So, I downloaded the latest firmware from the D-Link web site. I also noticed that this unit is now discontinued. After it was installed, the unit started dropping the connection when the remote computers try to transmit large files to the access point. The customer service at D-Link imediately went into denyal mode and said "it was an interferance problem problem". I tried to explaine that this problem only occured AFTER I upgraded the firmware, but the tech would not deviate from his obviously rehearsed responce. After reviewing many web pages, I found out this is a common problem after the firmware update. I would highly advise anyone to avoid this and all D-Link products due to poor customer service. However, the unit does work out of the box. If you do buy one, DO NOT load the firmware update. It is better to live with the 64bit (40bit) encoding. I gave up and replaced this unit with a US Robotics USR2249 which works great.
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Summary: PC Magazine's Editors Choice Award
Review: There are Two Major reasons why I bought D-Link instead of the others out there. 1. All the great reviews out on the Internet about this great Access Point. 2. The fact that the D-Link Access Point won the PC Magazine's Editors Choice Award in the Small Office Category. That alone tells me it is the best out there today. And after installing this wonderful piece of modern technology, I was nothing short of amazed at how well it worked in my home. Not that I didn't expect it to work well, but sometimes you just have to experience it to believe it.
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Summary: Great Buy
Review: This is absolutely a great buy. I had it up and running in 5 minutes. Plugged it in, connected to my cable router and I was surfing the Net immediately. Highly recommended!!
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Summary: Easy install, unstable and totally UNRELIABLE
Review: This is an totally modified review. I've changed my rating from 5 to 2 stars. DLink was my first wireless AccessPoint (first experience with wireless) and I seem to have confused fast startup with longterm reliability. Thinking that having the same vendor for both AccessPoint and PCCARD would ease things, I have been proven totally wrong. First off - the AccessPoint comes with a 'bios' that doesn't support WEP128 - but an upgrade is available. After trying to install the upgrade 3-4 times it finally took - but the result was that the web-management went belly up - invalid HTML, missing buttons etc. did I couldn't control basic stuff like the name of the wireless device. Secondly, the WEP didn't support tokens - so you have to type all 32 bytes in HEX on both sides. Not easy. Well - long story short - even with the bios change, I never got 128 encryption to work. Standard 64 went fine. Next - the AP software doesn't allow you to see what MAC's are connected or if there are other AP's around. This was a big setback, for as I discovered when I finally trashed DLink and got Linksys instead - a neighbor of mine has another AccessPoint - and it was causing me many problems. In general - allthough I had a full (100%) connection, the link could go dead. I would have to refresh every so often - causing my work to get totally obscured (loosing database connections, X server connections, SSH took much time to recover from). Some times I would have to refresh 5 times in an hour. On top of this, the connection speed was never 11mbps for long. It would fluctuate early on, and end up betweene 1 and 2 mbps before it would finally stop data transfer - and this while the link signal was between 90 and 100%. When I finally replaced both PCCARD and AP with Linksys, all my worries and irritation with Wireless went away. Allthough it's a faster model (G) than my old Dlink, it now holds at least 48mbps connections up and going at all times. Big difference - I don't loose my connection any more. It also helped, that I now can see other AccessPoints so I could set it up to avoid conflicts. The Linksys accesspoint allows me to log, WEP128 works straight out of the box, the website is up and has no errors on it. I even have more security control on who and where this access point works - and if I ever wanted to get the accesspoint as part of a larger network, there are options to tell it about it's neighbors so it will work as one large virtual network. DLINK has a long way to come to even get close to all this nice functionality. I would recommend Linksys to anyone starting out on Wireless anytime. Don't go through what I did to just save a couple of bucks.
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Summary: Claims a little exaggerated, but it works.
Review: This is my second wireless Access Point. I started with a Hawkings access point and was very impressed with how I was up and using the Internet from my patio in 10 minutes. However, the next day I had no connection. After 1 hour on technical support, we concluded it was defective. Therefore, I turned to another manufacturer. After reading the reviews, the D-Link product looked to be the best. I fully expected that I would be up and running within 10 minutes of opening the box based on my previous experiences. First off, the D-Link product is tiny and convenient. It comes with a wall mount if one decides to mount it that way. I do not know why no vendor includes a network cable, but make sure you have one before you get the product. I connected the D-Link to my Linksys Broadband router and based on the literature the D-Link was supposed to get an IP address from the DHCP server and I would be up and running. Well that was not the case, I do not know if it was the Linksys or the D-Link but after 20 minutes of messing with the manual, I still could not make a connection. Here is what I have discovered. If it does not work right away, throw away the manual and call technical support. The manual was useless. I went through the setup step by step and nothing worked. I was convinced that I had another defective product. But with the help of technical support (about a 20 minute wait) we had it up and working in 5 minutes. Here is a procedure that works if the unit seems dead out of the box. 1. Reset the unit and write down the MAC address. This is the same as the units Serial number. 2. Connect the unit to a network hub and your computer to the same hub. You must have a standard network card for this procedure to work. If you only have wireless, I would recommend getting at least 1 wired connection, otherwise you will be in for prolonged frustration. 3. Run the installation software and if the unit is not detected automatically, be prepared to add the unit manually. Try to follow the manual, but in my case, the IP addresses in the manual only confounded the problem. 4. Determine the IP address of your network card. This can be found by running the command ipconfig from the MS DOS command prompt. 5. Once you determine the IP address of your network card (in my case it was 192.168.1.101 for a linksys network), add the device manually. Type in the MAC address (Serial Number) and then pick an IP address in the same network as your network card. Do not use the IP address in the manual (192.168.0.10) unless your network card has the same first three numbers (192.168.1.xxx). In fact, I do not ever recommend using 0 as a network address. I picked 192.168.1.10 and then the software found and added the device flawlessly. 6. Next, pick the same SSID as your wireless network card. Pick something you can remember like HOME for home. That procedure is what finally got my unit to function. As a side note, this same procedure worked for the Hawkings unit as well. In fact, I think they are the same unit only different packaging. Same power units, same software, and same quirks. So for functionality, get whatever unit is cheaper, the Hawkings or the D-Link. Although the Hawkings has even worse technical support than D-Link. I would also not recommend the unit for first time network users. Good price and good product overall once you get it working. However, I am disappointed with the claim for DHCP and range. The unit was supposed to grab an IP address from my DHCP sever and I would not have to configure the unit manually, so claimed the literature. Well it does not work that way, and neither did the hawkings. Technical support told me that it happens that way sometimes. In addition, I live in a very simple three-bedroom square shaped southwest stucco home and even with unit in the center of the house my connection quality drops to nearly 10% just on the patio. Nevertheless, I predict the same quality from all the vendors; it is the same with cordless telephones. Take the range they claim; divide by 4 and that is what you will really get.
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Summary: VERY HAPPY!!
Review: Took about 30 minutes to get it to work with no help from d-link help line( they may call back today). I ran it with a linksys router and am walking all around my house with full strength. This is how computing should be. I don't see any slow down with my laptop over the wired lan card. I highly recomend this product after researching and pricing differant systems this was the best bang for the buck...
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Summary: Thank you to droptiks!!!
Review: Unfortunately, I had the same issues as droptiks. However, everything he/she said allowed my new wireless LAN to work flawlessly. Unfortunately, D-Link provides poor software and documentation for not only their cards, but also their Access Points. Thee actual AP is stylish and small, although I hate AC adapters. It is so bulky. There must be a better way! ...but I digress...The access point is simple to install physically, but software installation is tricky. If you have any sort of landline LAN or an existing router, plug your old ethernet card into your PC or laptop and plug that into the network. Also keep your wireless card in the computer. Now run the wizard and it should detect your true network settings. You will most likely need to enter the MAC address, but that is very simple. The reason you need to hook up your existing ethernet card is because the router must assign your PC an IP. Just f/y/i, the AP is asigned an Ip by the router. All in all, keep that old router. If you don't have one, I would highly reccomend getting the D-Link wireless router advertised on Amazon. It is listed for a lower price anyway! All in all, a good router, but seemingly quite expensive here on Amazon... After reading other reviews, I purchased the 650+ cards. I highly reccomend doing so. I get solid reception, varying between 75% and 100% throughout my entire hosue (cordless phones and all). Spend the extra few dollars and get the 650+ cards, especially if you eventually upgrade to the D-link 22mps wireless router.
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