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Linksys PCMPC100 EtherFast 10/100 PC Card

Linksys PCMPC100 EtherFast 10/100 PC Card

List Price: $58.99
Your Price: $39.99
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Rating: 4 stars
Summary: This is a great product
Review: This 10/100 ethernet card is really a bargain, when compared with the other ethernet cards such as 3com. The connection, and download ability is tremendous, and makes surfing the net a breeze. I liked it so much, I want to buy two.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Simple and inexpensive!
Review: This card is exactly as advertised and is a snap to install. Don't be too worried about reports of breaking off the dongle as that can happen to any PCMCIA NIC that uses one. (If your not careful :-) Your only other option is to use one that does not need a dongle, but they tend to be very costly.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: a true bargain. outperforms cards costing over twice as much
Review: This card is, simply put, the best value for the money for this type of product. I have a premium Xircom combo card that I was using until I saw this offered here. I decided to try it out, thinking I would save it as a backup to my "better" card.

As it turns out, this card outperforms the more expensive card by far - it does do true full duplex 100baseT, and the more expensive card doesn't really, even though it claims to (in fact, this card proved it to me). It also had an easier setup procedure. I did not hesitate to box the Xircom up and declare this my favorite card, instead.

The dongle is less pretty than the other card, but the lights are better at giving the status of the Ethernet connection. Don't be afraid of the dongle's reputation as being a weak link - I've had this card for probably 6 months, and I finally *just tonight* broke the cable adapter by letting my laptop fall off my bed. However, until today, the dongle worked great after squishing the cable in my bag, or even leaving it connected to my laptop and sticking my laptop in my bag (not that you should ever do this, but everyone forgets and does it anyhow) and banging my bag around on road trips. It certainly appears no weaker than the other card's. At the time of my writing, Amazon doesn't carry replacement dongles, but another vendor has them for only $11 each before shipping. That makes them "disposable" in my mind.

This card is one of the best bargains I have found on Amazon. It outperforms a top-of-the-line card at under half the price. If you don't break the dongle, it's totally hassle free. What are you waiting for? Buy it!

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Dongle hell
Review: This dongle is complete ..., It'll break in no time. Worst off, once it breaks (and it will break) you have to deal with linksys horrible customer service. I would not recommend any linksys products to anyone, and would rather advise everyone to avoid them at all cost.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Excellent product but...
Review: This is an excellent product, especially if you consider the price. The only problem I had is that I also have a PCMCIA modem card. The Linksys adapter is wide enough so that I'm unable to connect the phone jack to the modem card when the adapter is connected and vice-versa. It would have been a better design if the adapter's connector was not as wide, or was positioned towards the card's corner, instead of the center.

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Better things out there.....
Review: This product although not defective in perfomance is not a wise investment since the it's dopple design is easily breakable. If you are interested in a perfomance and durability i suggest the Linksys Etherfast 10/100 Integrated PC Card. Since it is integrated there is minimal chance that it will break and uses only one slot on your PC. Plus the price difference is minimal and you get much more for value.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Fast, but dongle breaks too easily.
Review: This product is easy to install on a home network. Just plug and go. The problem lies in the dongle. I have had two of them in the last six months. After a while they just stop working, and this is frustrating because replace dongle costs...

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Wonderful Card
Review: Works like a charm. Ive gotten around the donggle problem by mounting it onto the laptop itself. Only problem is that the Ether-Cable has to be slightly taped outward of the Dongle sometimes for it to make a connection.

Yours, Matthew

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: TechSupport A Joke -- Doesn't Work With WinCEPro
Review: [Linksys PCM100 Reviewed --- Same as PCMPC100 but with integrated connector] -The card does not work with many WindowsCE HandheldPC Pros (NEC780). -I found a Beta WinCE driver on their website... it doesn't work. There is no link on the Linksys website to the file. -Linksys "technical support" and "customer service" are terrible. They are rude, they don't call back, it takes days to speak to an actuall "tech" and they have little knowledge of their product line (or Windows, networking, etc.). -Most shops (including the one I purchased from) won't accept a return for the product, nor will Linksys.

-I also own a Linksys Router/4portSwitch. -Thankfully it works, no need for their "tech support".


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