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Summary: This card is fast and easy to set up
Review: It took me seconds to set the D Link AirPlus DWL-520+ Wireless 22MBPS PCI Card. I just put it in my computer, set the securty settings (Which is very easy to do.) and I was on the inter in no time
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Summary: When Compatable with Sound Blaster - 5 stars
Review: Initially I could not get this card to reliably work in my desktop. It would cause numerous boot errors or lock up the system for no appearant reason. Tried a clean OS install and then when that didn't work, a different OS. Finally received the following from D-Link tech support, "It has been recently brought to the attention of D-LInk and Creative Labs that the 2 products do not work together. No fix at this point. Both companies are working on the issue and as soon as there is a fix it will be released to the website." I had a Sound Blaster Live Gamer PCI card. When I removed it and used the AC97 sound from my motherboard the problems went away. Would like to have my SB back! Other than those problems the DWL-520+ works very well with the DI-614+. 100% link quality and 85% signal strength in a traditional two-story. Would give a five if the compatability problem gets solved.
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Summary: Good Speed - Limited Range Signal
Review: The hardware design of this card is very good. In most systems, (besides those running Windows XP), it will also install very easily.
As packaged, it will not work with Windows 98 first edition, but D-link has recently posted a Win98 first edition driver on its support site, and with that patch in place, it does work very well.
This product advertises that it is compatable with Windows XP, but Microsoft has NOT certified it and with good reason. The woefully inadequate installation documentation and software do not address many of the known XP quirks. Fortunately, the D-Link tech support staff are well versed in these common problems and are very helpful if you have an hour or so to wait on the phone. The website also has more patches than Grandpa's old dungerees, so D-Link is aware of the problem and, with some effort, you can overcome most XP related glitches. It's just too bad D-Link hasn't spent as much time updating their packaged software/documentation as they have designing their robust and speedy hardware.
The encryption schemes work exceptionally well, (up to 256 bits), and do not degrade speed nearly as much as some competitors products sometimes do.
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Summary: Compatibility problems
Review: Bought both the PCI card as well as the 650+ PCMCIA for my laptop. PCMCIA card installed reasonably well, though not perfectly smoothly but the PCI card was the installation from hell!I have an MSI K7T Turbo motherboard and it seems they don't like each other. The computer froze most of the time during boot up. After hours of fiddling and removing all other cards it still wouldn't work. Not only that but the card essentially destroyed the onboard RAID Bios. I tried two different cards (returned one to Dlink thinking it was faulty). Being unable to get a Flash for my M/Board RAID Bios I now need a new M/Board! So I am chucking the PCI Card and am looking at a different brand once I can afford it. Backup in Australia by DLink was pretty terrible. Waited an hour on hold the first time. Asked me whether I had a SB card (which I don't) and then said he didn't know what the problem was.
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Summary: D Link AirPlus DWL-520+
Review: A little touchy to install. I had to take out my sound card and use its pci slot; I put the sound card in a different slot and everything works fantastic. An email to tech support was answered quickly.
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Summary: DWL-520+ and SoundBlaster Live! Value Incompatibilities
Review: I recently purchased a D-Link Airplus DI-614+ and a D-Link DWL-520+ Wireless PCI adapter card. If you want to avoid many frustrating hours of e-mails and calling the D-Link support team (on-hold times were usually 25 minutes), it may be wise NOT to purchase the DWL-520+ card if you have a "SoundBlaster Live! Value" sound card. In my case, most of the time when I had both cards installed, the computer froze during the boot process. This was in a Pentium3 500MHz computer. Only after placing the wireless card in PCI Slot 3 and the SBLive card in PCI Slot 5 was I able to get the computer to finish booting to the desktop. Even then, the SBLive card still did not function well, sometimes causing echoing sound effects, or spontaneous re-booting of the computer. The D-Link support team insisted that they got good results with the SBLive card in Slot 5 and the wireless card in Slot 4 -- which in my system was one of the freeze-on-booting situations. When installed by itself without the SBLive card installed, the D-Link DWL-520+ worked flawlessly with the D-Link DI-614+ Access Point Router. But I did not wish to run that computer without a sound card. After spending way too many hours trying to get this system to work, I returned the D-Link devices and purchased the LinkSys BEFW11S4 Access Point Router for use near my new computer, and the WUSB11 Wireless USB Adapter for my older computer. I am now effortlessly using the internet on both of my computers. One additional point -- the people at D-Link will not provide you with support help for File Sharing problems between computers on a wireless network. I'm not sure if this is true for other wireless manufacturers.
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Summary: Disappointing Product, Disappointing Service
Review: ... I purchased the DWL-900AP+ and the DWL-520+. The DWL-900AP+ was shipped by Amazon.com, the DWL-520+ by Tech Depot - wish I had realized that sooner - I now have two returns to manage instead of one. I followed the instructions to install the 520 in my XP desktop. The DLink utility did not install - no desktop icon was created (the instructions said there would be one). When I double-clicked the icon in my task bar, a different screen displayed than the one in the instructions. I contacted tech support, and after about a half hour on the phone, the DLink tech rep said to return the devices, they must be faulty. I can't contact Tech Depot to issue the RMA until Monday. I have to submit a separate return request for the access point. Two returns even though I place the order on the same website...
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Summary: It is not WLAN.
Review: Just Do not buy. You cannot connect WLAN LAN. May be only D-Link LAN you can connect.
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Summary: 4 on Adapter, 3 on setup
Review: I bought this PCI adapter along with the D614+ router and it works great. I am getting a good signal overall, 22 Mbps, 128 bit encryption and very few problems. Functionally this card if very good. As for installation, it was quirky. XP found it and installed drivers, but it only allowed 11 Mbps transfer rates. The instructions in the "quickguide" manual are very simplistic and straighforward, but do not help enough to solve this problem. So I uninstalled these drivers and used the disc included to add the Dlink utility that provided a better interface for configuration and the ability to speed up the NIC (network interface card). The autorun actually loaded a third party security software (probably a fluke) and then at first the drivers from the disc did not find the AP at all. After a bit of playing, I got everything to work, but with plug and play working so well in XP, installs should be a bit cleaner than this. Overall, the card works great now and though a bit more complex than a wired NIC to configure, wireless is worth it and very cool to play with. I recommend this along with the D614+.
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Summary: No problems, system works very well
Review: I have had the D-Link 614 and 3 pc's networked. 2 are running the PCI 520+ models and my base pc is direct wired to the router. The speed is amazing for the wired networks. I have one system 2 stories above the router, I get around a 90% signal strength and always 100% link quality. The antenna being flexible allows me to tweak the angle of the antenna and get a stronger signal. It is a very good card. I had a wired network before that ran 10mb system. The airplus has been killer, I've seen 500kb/sec xfer speed on the wireless pc's. My wife and kids are amazed at how stable it is and I haven't had to reboot my pc or theirs for weeks to get the ip address back. I'd recommend this unit for anyone that has a recently made pc that has windows xp. I can't recommend older pc's as I haven't tested it there. The tech support when I called was very nice to deal with. They spoke good english and actually worked with me in setting up opening ports. I didn't wait very long and the were actually intelligent in how to work with setting up the router. They gave me pointers and also walked me through some options to get programs to work. The price/stability/connection speed in my opionion is the best deal on the market. I'd give it 5/5 stars.
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