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Summary: Don't use phone support
Review: I suppose this is the difficulty one encounters when buying a new technology, but it is frustrating nonetheless. The people at Linksys and amazon have teamed up to provide buying advice over the phone, the downside being that the people manning that lines don't seem to have been given any information about the product yet. I was told the product shipped with drivers for my computer, when in fact there are no plans to make a driver for my computer. (this I learned in a 45 minute call to the tech support line--I was not on hold more than ten minutes, it just took the tech support representative 20 minutes to find any record of the product). If you are confident you know what you need and that it is in the box, go with this product, it is a promising technology at a very affordable price. If you have any questions use another company, it's just a simple price for service tradeoff.
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Summary: So Easy and great distance
Review: I entered into wireless to be able to break away from my home office, a bit and move to other rooms. I wasn't disappointed at all.
Installation was a snap, and I can access my network anywhere in the apartment. I live in a two story, condo type duplex. The transmitter was placed by the cable modem, on top of a stereo, dvd player, and tivo. I thought I might have some interferance issues due to the proximity to so much other electronic equipment, but it wasn't an issue at all. This couldn't have been easier to install if I had paid someone to do it. In addition to being able to access "g" wireless network it can also be used to access "b" wireless networks as well. I can't tell a difference in speed between my cable internet and the wireless. Highly Recommended!
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Summary: Not compatible with 802.11a
Review: Although the new 802.11g 2.4GHz is backward compatible with 802.11b 2.4GHz it is NOT compatible with any 802.11a 5GHz network. Even though it is 5x faster at 2.4 GHz its range is still 100-150 feet.
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Summary: Works great!
Review: My first experience with wireless. I bought the router, and the card together, plugged it all in and was up and running in less than 5 minutes. Couldn't have been easier if someone else had installed it for me....great range, works perfectly....
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Summary: 802.11g is here
Review: The wait is finally over. The IEEE 802.11g standard is now available with the Linksys Wireless 54g PC Card. The 802.11g standard runs at 2.4 GHz, the same as 802.11b commonly known as Wi-Fi. Because both standards operate on the same frequency, the 802.11g standard is backwards compatible and now offers 54Mbps. The Linksys card will provide maximum speeds of 54 Mbps when used with a compatible 54Mbps wireless access point. It will work with other brands as well. The backwards compatibilty also allows it to work with 802.11b networks that you might already have at the office, home, or at Starbucks. 54Mbps will be a noticeable difference because the wireless spectrum is shared. When in public hotspots your speeds will now increase due to the additional bandwidth. If necessary, the Linksys card will switch back to 11Mbps when communicating with the older access points. This happens automatically. This is definite buy at a GREAT price.
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Summary: Much faster!
Review: Well this is a definite improvement in speed over the old 802.11 cards. It was a cinch to set up and seems to hold a better and stronger connection. Definitely a good deal!
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Summary: Nearly Indestructible, too bad it has to be
Review: The ONLY bad thing about this is that the card sticks out of the notebook about 3/4 of an inch, and after dropping my PC a couple times, the card's cover came off and it's bent - but it STILL works, and it may have cushioned the notebook from damage (which is much more expensive to replace). On the other hand, the fact that it sticks out means that it gets caught on things, the notebook doesn't quite fit in it's case anymore, etc... So I'm about to replace it, just because I hate having the electronics dangling out of the side, not because it's not working. It's generally always worked fine, was easy to set up, and if you use Linksys cards and routers, then it lets you use a pass phrase for WEP encryption instead of the usual HEX gibberish (much easier).
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Summary: bad experience
Review: The card works very poorly with my Dell Inspiron 8100. It seems it has a compatibility problem with the Texas Instruments bus that is used on all Dell laptops. It keeps dropping the connection with my Netgear wireless router. Also the driver does not integrate well with Windows XP - I had to install it several times. I would advise against buying it.
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Summary: Working fine
Review: I've installed this card in an old IBM A30, connecting to an 802.11B Linksys router. Set up was easy and despite a mystery around Linksys vs. Windows Zero Config managing the connection -- its working fine, no drops.
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Summary: Beware of versions if want WPA-PSK + AES (vs TKIP)
Review: Good product, but note that there are 3 versions out there: no version (the original - "v0"), v2, and v4 (bundled w/ a wireless router). Don't know about the card in v4, but if you want WPA-PSK and AES (vs TKIP), then don't get v2. The WLAN Monitor program in v2 does NOT offer AES (tested and confirmed today by Linky Tech Support) for either W2000 or WXP. This is NOT (as Linksys wants to say) an MS problem - Linky's v2 driver is not ready to "offer" AES, just TKIP, as of 1/20/05. The v0 (original) card works in both OS's, providing you dl the latest drvr from Linky's website. I'm writng this 'cuz I just paid a LOT of dues trying to get the v2 to work in either of my laptops. Only v0 works >> AES. Made several calls to Linky cust support, and finally a Level 2 tech fessed up and admitted it -- not a consumer-friendly attitude. The v2 spec sheet flaunts WPA, AES, TKIP capability, but it's BS. Am now trying to locate another v0 card to complete my layout. Last note: no one seems to indicate on their website which version they're selling, so good luck!!
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