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Summary: Not a good value with the price of the 10/100's so low
Review: .This was an outstanding product in it's day. But given the present very low prices for linksys 10/100 PCMCIA cards, I don't recommend it. Why buy old technology when new technoogy is just a little bit more money. Check out the Linksys PCMPC100 EtherFast 10/100 Card . My choice for a PCMCIA network card. It is also for sale on this web site.
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Summary: Not a good value with the price of the 10/100's so low
Review: . This was an outstanding product in it's day. But given the present very low prices for linksys 10/100 PCMCIA cards, I don't recommend it. Why buy old technology when new technoogy is just a little bit more money. Check out the Linksys PCMPC100 EtherFast 10/100 Card . My choice for a PCMCIA network card. It is also for sale on this web site.
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Summary: Don't buy if you frequently move computer
Review: I bought this and I move my notebook alot since I work at home. Even with the most care the clip wore out in only 5 months. Would not buy again!
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Summary: Linksys LAN card Review
Review: I purchased this card about 11 months ago and I've been having nothing but trouble with it on my Hitachi Visionbook laptop. The price is right for what you get. The coupler that connects to the PCMCIA card is very delicate and flimsy and for me a mobile user it broke after 3 weeks and had to be replaced. Later broke again after 6 months. The card its self is VERY frusterating to install if it doesnt want to work the first time. I am a certified Cisco Network Analyst and I've never experienced problems like this on any PCMCIA card. Installation can take 3 seconds to 11 hours. I'dd highly recommend looking at somthing different.
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Summary: Linksys LAN card Review
Review: I purchased this card about 11 months ago and I've been having nothing but trouble with it on my Hitachi Visionbook laptop. The price is right for what you get. The coupler that connects to the PCMCIA card is very delicate and flimsy and for me a mobile user it broke after 3 weeks and had to be replaced. Later broke again after 6 months. The card its self is VERY frusterating to install if it doesnt want to work the first time. I am a certified Cisco Network Analyst and I've never experienced problems like this on any PCMCIA card. Installation can take 3 seconds to 11 hours. I'dd highly recommend looking at somthing different.
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Summary: This is a ...
Review: I used it for two weeks and I had to return it to the store for a refund. It did not work in my Mindows ME notebook with a Linksys Router (BEFSR11), and it was very unstable in my Compaq iPAQ 3650 as well.
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Summary: Death to the Dongle!
Review: I was actually a satisfied user of this product for several months. My laptop has been sitting on a corner of my desk for all that time, because I've been too busy to configure the system for the uses I intend for it. So it's just been an extra storage box, a place where I could stick stuff that didn't belong on my employer's hardware. For this non-typical usage, the EC2T seemed a real steal, inexpensive, easy to install, reliable. I was (and still am) skeptical of the complaints in some of the other Amazon reviews. The kind of problems described are typically nothing to do with card or driver. And though this is a pokey 10 megabit card, it makes no sense to spend extra unless you know you're going to connect to a 100 megabit network, and don't want to screw up the other users. Few people need even 10 megabits of bandwidth, and it's silly to buy data capacity before you need it, given the ongoing collapse in hardware costs. Anyway, I recently started using my laptop as a laptop, and soon discovered the fatal flaw in the design. As with many older PCMCIA network cards, the EC2T accepts the RJ cable not on the card itself, but on an external assembly, a "dongle" which connects in turn to a thin little connector on the card itself. Dongles have a reputation for fragility, but the IBM Token Ring card that came with my used laptop (useless, alas, on my company's network) has a nice sturdy dongle with a simple thick plastic connector. The Linksys dongle is also sturdy looking, but the connector is a complicated, fragile thing, made of thin metal and plastic. Just now I tried to plug my laptop into the company network for perhaps the 10th time, only to find that a small but crucial bit of plastic had come off the dongle's connector. The whole thing is unusable. I'm not happy, but I won't boycott Linksys because of this. Hardware makers are under constant, extreme pressure to cut costs, and absurdities like this useless dongle are the inevitable result. Rather than hassle with finding a card with a properly made dongle, I'll replace this one with one that has the network connector built into the card itself. Unfortunately, these all seem to done with a big plastic assembly that juts out of the side of your laptop. But I can live with that.
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Summary: Dongle too fragile.
Review: Thanks to the reviewer above for telling me it is called a "Dongle". The card worked fine, until the connection to it broke. Get a new one where the line connencts directly into the card.
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Summary: Good value
Review: This card has worked fine in my notebook running Win98... As the reviewer below says, the 'clip' that holds the RJ45 & coax socket onto the PCMCIA card is a bit flimsy, but mine still works after nearly a year of use.
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Summary: good for internet, not for file sharing
Review: This product actually worked great on my
IBM Thinkpad 760XL for surfing the net, worked great on
my Linksys 4 port router (BEFSR41 ver 2) as well. only problem I ran into, was trying to setup
file sharing in Windows 98.. the Network Setup wizard, for some odd reason,
would not detect the presence of this NIC card,
not even after reboot, so because of that
I was not impressed. but it is a great card for those who just want to surf
the net and not use file sharing (still not sure why Network setup wizard won't detect it
that one has me stumped)
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