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Summary: One strictly for the birds (well, turkeys at least)
Review: I have generally had nothing but good things to say about Netgear products: good value, good specs and good performance.The EA101 flies in the face of all my past good experiences. I was upgrading 2 ageing Dell Optiplexes (which only had 3 slots) to USB. Out with the old network card, in with a Xircom USB card and an EA101 on both machines. Machine number 1 up and running fine. Machine number 2 up and running fine... but what's this? Machine 1 has fallen off the network. Unplug EA101. Plug it back in. Machine 1 back online! ...but where's machine 2? Yep, you've guessed it - gone again. As I've (tried) to use them, other flakinesses have become evident. Why does an EA101-equipped machine fall off the network when I'm trying to pull a file onto it when I can push the same file successfully from the remote machine? Who knows? - certainly not tech support. Give this one a miss, IMHO.
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Summary: Know the hidden requirements before you buy!
Review: I recommend you call Netgear and ask them if you system is compatible with this adapter before you buy. I doesn't work with certain certain chipsets (I think the VIA chipsets -- which are pretty common). My frustration was that I found this information out only after I'd bought the thing. If you're looking for an ethernet adapter for a laptop, I recommend a PCMCIA card; that was my eventual solution. They are more reliable (and faster).
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Summary: Never sees the network
Review: I updated drivers from the netgear website and it still didnt work. The computer connected to this adaptor could not see the network and the network could not see this computer. It only worked once or twice. By this review i am not saying netgear products are bad because i think they are great it is just this one product that is not up to netgear standards.
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Summary: Drivers need work
Review: I wish I had seen the previous review before I did go and spend 2 hours with this adapter. I installed it on my laptop (after a few calls to netgear tech support) and got it working. When it works, it's great, but half the time my computer boots up and doesn't recognize it's there, and there seems to be no predictor or way of controlling when it will and won't work. Have had a couple of IT people at the office try to figure out what's wrong, they say the driver that came with the product is less than optimal. I have just downloaded the driver off netgear's web site, but it seems to be the same one. Will update my review if the "new" driver makes any difference, but for now I can't recommend this product.
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Summary: Worthless
Review: I've experienced the same problems mentioned in the other reviews. In a nutshell, the hardware functions intermittently at best. If you think it's easier to just plug in a USB adapter than install an Ethernet card, do yourself a favor - save the money and buy a quicker and more reliable in-machine card - don't make the same mistake I did.
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Summary: has worked flawlessly so far WinXP home !
Review: It has been working without any problems so far on my laptop with Win XP Home. The drivers included on floppy were obsolete, but luckily Win XP had a better version in its database. So no installation was needed for it ! Just plug and play. Although in my opinion this peice shouldn't cost more than [$$$]! The companies making these products are ripping off laptop owners thinking all of these are bought by corporate America, which doesn't care for the price !!
Update: I returned this back to Staples. Found another seller on ebay giving me a Belkin one brand new [$$$]with priority shipping. (This confirms my suspicion that this product should cost only around 10 bucks). So guys don't pay 40 bucks for this simple piece of hardware.
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Summary: I love Netgeat products BUT...
Review: Skip this one Don't bother buying this until late December '00 or until you check with the support folks. They admitted a bad crystal was "discovered" after the product shipped and they will not have replacements for weeks (as of 11/10/00)
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Summary: Great Product! Nice for home networks.
Review: Thanks to USB, the set-up of this bad-boy is nice and easy: Just plug it in! Your machine will figure out that there's a new USB device and hunt for the drivers. I'm happy to say that the latest drivers for Windows 98 are included with the product. It also comes with the blue ethernet cable picutred. Tips for Win 98 users:
1. Make sure you have all the necessary protocols set on each machine in your network
2. Choose a simple, one word name for your workgroup
3. Assign static IP addresses to your machines for ethernet networking
(These tips are NOT product specific. Anyone trying to network home machines may run into troubles because of these factors.) Plug in and enjoy!
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Summary: Netgear Equals Superb Service
Review: This holiday season I was a good santa and purchased numerous wireless networking products for my various family members. Sure it was partially a selfish act as I wanted to be able to easily connect when I went to visit, but for the most part it was just an act of giving. I purchased mainly G products and they varied from routers to USB adapters to PC Card adapters. I did also purchase a couple of B products for those in the family that already had some wireless networking products (yes, I know they are backwards compatible but I didn't want to take any chances).
Only two members of the family had installation problems (considering my family is very non-technical I was quite impressed) and those two people both had yet to upgrade to Windows XP SP2. The rest of the family members were up and running within minutes.
As for the couple of family members that did have problems, well they called me first (of course) and I told them to just run back through the installation procedure again. This solved the problem for Uncle Dennis but Grandma Joyce still couldn't get it to work properly. I reluctantly told her to call Netgear's technical support (hey the reviews on Amazon haven't been too pretty for their tech support). I however was quite pleased when an hour later I got an email from Grandma Joyce thanking me for the great gift. I called her back and she told me that after fiddling with the settings with the Netgear people she was up and running within 30 minutes.
Overall, I consider this the ultimate test of product quality and support and I would give Netgear two thumbs up.
I hope this review was helpful to you in putting your mind at ease regarding ease of setup and trust of technical support if needed.
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Summary: fast and easy
Review: to install. website even has windows2000 drivers, which i eagerly installed upon getting win2k as soon as its release. a little bulkier than i had hoped... one of these days they should make it as thin as the cable itself
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