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Summary: Speedy, Easy to use, and Installs with Little Effort
Review: I had this installed in my PC in minutes. About 3 minutes really. I installed the drivers on the CD, rebooted with the actual card in and suddenly it saw my wireless router, the DI-624, and connected automatically.I love this card for it's range, everywhere in my home, and the software that shows you your connection strength and other stats. Very easy to use and goes great with the DI-624 wireless router.
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Summary: Fast and Furious little Card
Review: I love how easy this card was to install. he thing I like most its the speeds it can acheive with the D-Link DI-624 as it's access point. I can connect and transfer MP3's to my desktop just as fast as my wired network. Granted I do have to be inthe same room to acheive those awesome speeds, but even at two rooms down I get fast enough speeds. The Internet connection doesn't seem slower, I am protected with 128-bit WEP, easy to install by the way, and the software hasn't been a problem on my Dell laptop. Overall I'd recommend this Wireless PC Card.
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Summary: Good performance and compatibility
Review: I purchased this card with a D-Link DI-624 router/WAP; as a pair, they perform flawlessly, and offer the advertised performance, which is on-par with wired Ethernet. Compatibility of this card with other access points was good in my testing. It connected just fine to all the WAPs I normally use (all of which are B protocol), and offered the expected performance. The only complaint I have is that I attempted to install the card using the latest drivers from D-Link, downloaded from their web site. Despite carefully matching the hardware revision of my card with the offered download, my attempts to use the card failed. The drivers installed fine, but it would not "sniff" any wireless networks (there were two within range), including one a few feet away. After uninstalling the downloaded drivers, and using the earlier version supplied on CD with the card, it fired-up just fine, and operated perfectly. Unfortunately, this is something I've encountered before with D-Link products, both with device drivers (as for this card) and with firmware updates for various D-Link products I've owned. It's not always the best advice to stay fully current on updates, as they occasionally introduce anomalies. If you're technically inclined, this is a minor annoyance that can be dealt with using a combination of patience and judicious back-ups. Average users may not have as much tolerance for this as I do. With the installation stabilized, I find myself quite satisfied with the DWL-G650, and definitely recommend it -- though less technical users should stick to the drivers on the packaged CD.
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Summary: Fast and stable, if you don't protect access
Review: It works fine with D-Link DI624 wireless router, if you don't set any kind of protection tool. I have got stable and strong connections at 108 Mbps in any point of my house, even with many walls between DWL-G650 and DI-624.At this moment, I am connected for almost 6 hours, without crash and always at 108 Mbps. It works fine with my Sony Vaio notebook and with Toshiba's. But its stability vanishes when I configure any tool for secure networking (WEP, WPA, WPA-PSK ...). So, it works fine, but is not secure.
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Summary: ************ Avoid D-Link Products ********************
Review: The product may perform up to your expectations but I only hope you never have to interact with D-Link's support organization. After dealing with conflicting, contradictory and completely erroneous information from their support organization, I have come to the conclusion that I don't care to do business with D-Link again. I hope that if you do buy a D-Link product it works flawlessly (which mine did not), and you never have to call their tech support organization.
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Summary: Card causes my laptop to freeze
Review: When using this card my laptop freezes without any apparent reason. Sometimes it freezes immediately - sometimes after hours of use. All I can do is to reboot the laptop. Sent the card to D-Link and got a replacement but it still wouldn't work. Updating drivers doesn't help either.
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Summary: US Robitics 8- Port 10/100 Ethernet Switch
Review: This U S Robitics is so convenient it only takes 2 connections.
Plug it in the adapter and one line to your PC. It wotks great you can plug in your printer and still have 6 ports left. I received a E mail that it would be shipped by 04/08/2004 and I received it at my door on the 04/08/2004. I have never seen next day delivery, I'll buy from Amazon anytime .
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Summary: Make sure u have the latest revision - read for more info...
Review: First, you must know that D-Link has the annoying and unprofessional habit of releasing unfinished, not so ready hardware to market. It seems that their engineering team is under pressure from marketing (typical) to deliver products before they are completely tested and ready. There are several revisions (internal designs) of this and other D-Link products. As of this writing (April 2004), the DWL-G650 has 7 of them, A1, B1, B2, B3, B4, C1, and C2 each representing a correction to a "Oops" of some sort! The DWL-G520 has 2, A and B, while the DI-624 router has 3, A, B, and C. The latest revision is what you should look for, it is usually on the sticker on the back of the box - just below the serial number. OK, so I had the DI-614+ router, DWL-650+ PC Card, and DWL-520+ PCI card, and they worked great. I just needed the higher speed to stream music and video from my server upstairs, and wanted to use the more secure WPA protocol (not yet supported on the DWL-520+ *stupid D-Link*), so I upgraded to the DI-624 router (rev. C), DWL-G650 PC Card (rev. B4), and DWL-G520 PCI Card (rev. B). I upgraded the firmware on the router right away to 2.42 and the driver for the G650 to 2.48. The router seemed to work fine, but the card was not seeing it. My older 802.11B card (DWL-650+) was able to see and connect to the new router, but not the new card. I tried many things to no avail. I then installed the older driver 2.42 and the card started seeing the router but had trouble keeping the connection..I played with many settings and nothing helped. I tried two other laptops (different brands) and experienced the same symptoms.
Finally, I went to the a store and purchased another DWL-G650 and made sure it was the newer rev. C2 (the latest). Guess what, it worked right away and kept the connection solid. I tried FTP between the server (wired to the router) and the wireless laptop and got a transfer throughput of about 2400KBytes/sec... This is while using WPA-PSK with Super G enabled and using a short preamble. The same results were obtained with the PCI version of the card (DWL-G520).
I returned the bad PC Card (rev. B4) back to the store and kept the new one! So, just make sure that you have the latest version of the hardware. One more thing, if you compare the signal quality/strength between DWL-650+ and DWL-G650 or between DWL-520+ and DWL-G520 you'll find that the new cards have a much lower number (worst). For example, my old 650+ used to get around 70% quality compared to 36% for the G650 at the same exact spot/direction. The difference is identical when comparing the 520+ to the G520. I have not experienced any performance issues though, the TxRate is typically at 72Mbps (not 108Mbps)! I think the new AirPlus XtremeG utility calculates the quality number differently and hence the difference, and future driver updates may further enhance the signal measurement. D-Link's release of faulty hardware is wrong and must be stopped. The problem is that their competition are not much better. So go for what works, and buy from a place that has a good return policy. Someday another vendor will make better products and offer better support, and I will abandon D-Link :)
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Summary: Great wireless card!
Review: This card works best with the DI-624 router. I have Windows 2000 and have not had any problems after upgrading to the latest firmware. Signal strength and range are good, and card does not overheat after prolonged usage. Just a few things to keep in mind. 1) Download the latest firmware BEFORE you hook up your wireless connection. Do this on your wired connection- the DI-624 wireless router has both wired and wireless connections. 2) Install the latest firmware. The card would also only work in a specific PCMCIA slot that I had installed it in. 3) Disable any internal builtin wireless cards in your laptop. Happy surfing.
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Summary: Do not buy for use with an HP or Compaq laptop!
Review: This is the second D-Link PCMIA card I've owned, and they have both been good performers, except they interfere with Windows' power management features on HP and Compaq notebooks. I thought the problem would be solved by buying this newer card, but it hasn't. My computer refuses to stay powered on for more than 20 minutes unattended, and frequently, when browsing the Internet, my mouse cursor freezes and the only way out is to hit the power button. I did some online research, and it turns out many other HP and Compaq laptop users have had the same problem. For some reason, these incompatibilities still exist, despite D-Link knowing about them for some time. Again, D-Link cards perform well and are a good value, but I would not recommend one to an HP or Compaq user.
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