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Summary: Second one works fine.....
Review: We received this item around Nov. 2003. The initial setup was problematic, and afterwords it worked some of the time, but mostly it would lock up the laptop. After several calls and emails to tech support, they finally acknowledged that the problem might be with the card and not with the laptop. They sent us a replacement card, and issued an RMA for the original card, which we had to pay to ship to them. The replacement card that they sent works fine, no crashes at all in the last two weeks. Very disappointed with their tech support.
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Summary: Works with Linux - no problem
Review: I saw several reviews say it doesn't work which is right! since no official support but there is this great site that provides a way to make it work -> acx100.sf.net And I have been using the dwl-650+ for the past 6 months on Linux (Debian) without any problem at all. As a matter of fact, the acx100.sf.net's method (there's a script that loads and starts everything) makes it works painlessly. There's nothing I can complain about the card hence I give it a perfect rating.
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Summary: WARNING: Not Linux compatible
Review: This uses a TI chipset which TI refuses to release any information about to the Linux driver writers. Thus it is unlikely to ever be Linux compatible. It seems to work okay under Windows XP, but I try not to support jerks and you can get a much faster Wireless-G card for not much more nowdays, so it's definitely *not* recommended.
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Summary: It doesn't really work for Windows-XP
Review: I bought the DWL-650+ a few months ago for my old laptop computer. Recently I bought a new HP notebook with Windows XP and Athlon XP-M 2500+. The wireless card works fine when I use AC power for the new notebook. However, once I switch to battery power, it freezes the computer. I downloaded the latest driver from D-Link web site, spent many hours installing/uninstalling the driverand, and tried to figure out what was wrong. But it simply didn't work. Finally I gave up, and purchased a Netgear WG511 card. The WG511 works fine, only it loses connection to my D-Link DI-614+ quite frequently, which I don't know why yet. But at least it's working and doesn't feeeze my notebook.
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Summary: Not as bad as some of these guys claim
Review: I have had little problem setting up a number of these cards to work with the DI-614+ router. One person in here said that it does not work with VPN passthrough, but I think they did not try hard to find the solution. I too could not get remote desktop to work running with VPN, until I disabled 4X mode, then it works fine.
I got good tech support, and maybe you might get better support at Linksys, but they don't have 22 bps rate, and they are not any better wireless devices in my book.
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Summary: Total junk. Never buy this product.
Review: I got one of this D-Link wireless card and it is totally a junk! It makes my laptop to freeze and I have to reboot 10 times till once it works! I never recommend this product to anyone.
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Summary: Terrific range and signal strength
Review: I've been using the DWL-650+ card with the matching DWL-900AP for a year now and have been completely excited and happy with its performance. Its range through two rooms, up stairs and down a hall is very good. I've never once had a problem with dropped signals. I turn my laptop on and the signal stays solid until I turn it off. I'm using 128-bit WEP encryption, as well. The speed is terrific. I applaud D-Link. I picked this combo because of the 22Mbps data rate. I can tell you that it really does double your throughput. On top of that, D-Link has a new firmware for the 900AP and driver for the 650+ that provided 4x/44Mbps mode. Note: it never actually negotiates at 44Mbps, but it does boost the speed. For example, at 2x/22Mbps, I get an average of 6.5Mbps (tested with QCheck from www.netiq.com), and at 4x/44Mbps, I get an average of 9.2Mbps... almost a 50% boost. Advertisement aside, getting 9Mbps from 802.11b is absolutely terrific. Although I'm so high on this combo, if you're thinking of ordering any combo, I suggest going with D-Link's Extreme G 802.11g combo of DI-614 and DWL-G650, like I've done (should arrive in a few days).
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Summary: Don't upgrade the drivers with Windows XP and a Dell laptop!
Review: After many long hours on the phone with tech support, who was at times helpful, and at other times not helpful, I've come to the conclusion from countless testing and reboots that any drivers except the ones that came with my card do not work. I believe the driver that came on my install disk was 2.02 or something, that works fine. If you have XP, and/or a Dell laptop (mine is Inspiron 5100), DO NOT UPDATE THE DRIVERS, EVER. You get a blue screen system error about the driver not being equal or something and saying it was dumping the data, etc... Other that that, the card seems to work fine, however, the distance isn't what I expected and certain walls in my office block it for some reason. I must admit that I've put way too many hours into making this work at home and in the office. It really shouldn't be this hard. Perhaps I'm one of those people that it just didn't work out for. I would honestly buy a different brand before buying D-link again simply because of my poor experience.
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Summary: excellent performance, excellent price
Review: this 802.11B unit is available with rebate for as little as $30. using proprietary compression techniques it can transmit between computers on a LAN (using the same d-link "plus" components) at up to 44 Mbs. this is so close to 802.11G performance that the price difference is a no-brainer. be advised that top performance is obtained using non-TCP/IP protocols (e.g., NetBEUI) over your LAN. excellent install process and web-based administration. worked on the very first try.
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Summary: Great price/performance
Review: I read about some people having trouble with Windows hanging after installing this card. I had the same problem with an older Dell laptop but got immediate help from D-Link tech support. The card worked great after disabling the built-in network adapter.
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