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Summary: Very good
Review: I bought two of these. On one computer (my older one) it installed without a hitch. On my newer computer it kept freezing at "updating hardware profiles." I went to Linksys's website and found out that my motherboard has a known conflict with the card. The site said to download specific drivers, which I did, yet it still didn't work. After going back and forth on Creative Lab's Tech support (I was having the same problem with one of THEIR products) we finally got far enough that the linksys would install. I don't blame the card for this, I blame my computer, which has always seemed to have an aversion to installing new hardware. The installation on a 'normal' computer was quick and painless, and seems to be working perfectly. I would recommend digging up the manual for your motherboard, finding the "Wake on LAN" in the cmos is a bit hard on some.
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Summary: I was surprised!
Review: I had problems with a Netgear in my computer (with the M5ALA motherboard) and put moved that one to my wife's computer and then reluctantly bought this Linksys. I had it working in less than 5 minutes. I have a Netgear RT314 router and a cable modem service and the card worked fine. I really wanted to try the D-link because many seem to have problems with the LNE100TX but I got it for ... (.... rebated) so I could not pass that up. I have only been using it for one day but not one single problem so far. I gave it 4 stars instead of 5 because of how this company has many different versions of this card that take different drivers, yet they are all the same model number. I wanted to make sure I had the latest driver so I had to turn off my computer and take the card back out to look at the chip. This is pretty stupid, but my only complaint.
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Summary: Linksys LNE-100TX Review
Review: I just re-installed this card after switching to a 3Com Etherlink 3C900B-TPO NIC. My idea was that the 3Com was supposed to perform better on my Cable Modem then anything else. WRONG! I had frequent lockups in my system (AMD Athlon "classic" 750 & Tyan S2380 Motherboard w/256Mb PC-133 SDRAM) from the first moment I booted in the new drivers. The 3Com was not nearly as fast as the Linksys. This NIC is rated tops by PC World, and I agree.
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Summary: Expect shoddy hardware
Review: When I first came to college I ended up helping a number of people connect to the residential network. Of everyone I know only three people weren't able to get online, and all three had bought a Linksys LNE100TX. The model seems to be prone to failure, and behaves sporadically even at the best of times. I've spent hours installing and reinstalling drivers for this card. Even if it does work, it's just not worth the bother of installing it. If you're looking for a good, cheap ethernet NIC, go with D-Link.
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Summary: Stay away
Review: Stay away from Linksys cards. I build small business networks for a living. Many customers buy Linksys cards becuase they are inexpensive, but alway end up regreting it. Installation is easy but once you start to use it, you will notice that your computer will be more prone to crashes and mouse problems. I have tried the cards on Compaqs, Dells, and generic machines running Win 98, ME, NT4 and Win2000 and have problems with them all. You get what you pay for!
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Summary: Beware Linux user
Review: If you have any of the Window OS (i.e 95/98/ME/2000), this card will work great, i bought 3 of them, two for a 98 and an ME, installing was quicky, all you have to do is put them in and install the driver, it work great with window. If you have a linux box, becareful, the card claim it work with any major Linux os but my personal experience was different, i have a box with Redhat 6.2, linksys gave me a driver with the tulip.o driver, first, i have to compiled the tulip among various other C++ file, but one of the file ask for a "special switch" during compilation which Linksys didn't mention anything about, after that, i went to their website, and linksys have four different driver for this card, the reason is the chipset on the card, some of the chipset was make by Linksys, other was make by Digital or other manufacture, after download the new driver, and couple day with it, it work, but it is such a hassle. Get this card if you use Window, if you use a linux machine, you may want to try 3COM card or SMC card instead
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Summary: Hit or miss in Windows ME with Revision 4
Review: I'd give this card a 5/5 stars if Linksys stayed with Revision 2 of the card, but they changed it to Revision 4. This causes all sorts of trouble and you use windows default drivers. I don't even know what this thing does in 98. It's a shame that this had to happen, but I think I'm going to go with netgear now.
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Summary: Awesome card
Review: I have Windows 2000 OS and this card installed in a blast. I have other kinds in other computers but this one was the easiest to install and seems to perform the best. Highly recommended with Win2k!
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Summary: Too bad one star is the lowest rating I can give to this
Review: I have a number of other Linksys products (router, wireless access point and the PCMCIA wireless card), and like them all... except this card. After multiple calls to customer support and a number of attempts to upgrade the drivers from their website, I finally gave up and bought a Netgear card (which installed and worked in under 15 minutes).
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Summary: OK, but installation confusing
Review: I have installed two of these, and each time the installation instructions failed but for different reasons. I had to play around a fair amount to find the files that the installation program needed, either already on my hard disk, on the Windows installation CD or on the diskette that came with the card. Even on the diskette, the installer was unable to find the required files until I figured out where they were on the disk and told it. I find it astounding that they can't get their own installation program to find their own files.
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