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Buffalo AirStation 11Mbps Wireless LAN PC Card ( WLI-PCM-L11GP )

Buffalo AirStation 11Mbps Wireless LAN PC Card ( WLI-PCM-L11GP )

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Flawless performance - PC + Mac
Review: Not sure if there is much difference between wireless cards - big difference seems to be in drivers. I was looking for a card that would work with both Mac and PC laptops. The Buffalo card has Mac drivers on its website - installed and working great with a cheap-o SMC access point (which also can be configured on a Mac, by the way). Have yet to see any issues with the thing - I use it for about 20 hours/week and it's rock-solid.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Flawless performance - PC + Mac
Review: Not sure if there is much difference between wireless cards - big difference seems to be in drivers. I was looking for a card that would work with both Mac and PC laptops. The Buffalo card has Mac drivers on its website - installed and working great with a cheap-o SMC access point (which also can be configured on a Mac, by the way). Have yet to see any issues with the thing - I use it for about 20 hours/week and it's rock-solid.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Driver disaster
Review: When I tried to install this product's software on a laptop running ME, the driver repeatedly crashed the entire system. After several calls to support, I was convinced that perhaps its was an OS problem. I spent *all evening* archiving my data, reformatting my hard drive and doing a clean install of the system. The result? The exact same crash.

As far as I can tell, this is a half-assed product that was rushed to market without really testing the software. It's clearly not even remotely compatible with ME if it crashes the entire system when the system is cleanly reinstalled and untouched. It gets 1 star because one of the tech support people was actually helpful.


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