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Summary: Not the greatest signal reciever
Review: I bought this card with the wireless-g broadband router.About 30 feet away from the router and NO CONNECTION. I have to be about 15 to 20 feet to be able to get a decent "low" signal. And the signal only has to travel through 3 walls, not even cement walls. I bought a laptop recently with a built in wireless g card and that card can pick up the signal from where this linksys can. the laptop is a Toshiba P25-S509. ...other than that, the card is easy to install specially with windows XP Pro and its nice to have a wireless network at home.
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Summary: I like it
Review: I own this as well as several other Linksys products and find that this card works well. Linksys may have pushed this technology out the door a little too soon and as a result the card can be quirky. However, I have found that Router/Access Point firmware upgrades to the router and driver updates for the PC Card have helped to reduce most of my problems - the majority being drop-offs. You can find firmware upgrades and patches on the Linksys site under "support." If you are new to firmware upgrades, you may want to contact Linksys to walk you through your first upgrade.
If you are using Windows XP and somewhat familiar with computers try using Windows XP to configure the card (under properties of My Network Places then properties of the card) rather than using the software that comes with this card. This has cleared up some of the issues I was having.
Additionally, I would recommend using WEP and disabling SSID broadcasting on your router (at a minimum) to increase security. It isn't very difficult for your neighbor, or others, to access your access point/router when you use your router with the default settings.
Also the 54G card and router are really only beneficial if you are in a network environment where you are sharing information between 2 or more computers. For one computer cruising the internet, the 54G product line does not add any more value. Your typical high speed connection (cable modem or dsl) travels at approximately 1.5 Mbs/sec, whereas the 54G product line travels at up to 54 Mbs/sec. You really don't need to know what Mbs mean to understand that if you have a card that can use up to 54 of something, but your internet speed can only run as high as 1.5 of something, what is left over is not utilized and can be over kill. If you are using only one computer to connect to the internet and do not plan on networking computers together then the "B" series of wireless devices may be all you need - saving you money. Where the 54G product line shines is when you are passing information between two or more computers, within a local network.
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Summary: Easy and Reliable
Review: I found this card very easy to install and configure. I connect to the Linksys Wireless-G router. I literally had my newtork working in 5 minutes. I have not found there to be a problem with the card heating up. Sometimes when my laptop has been idle for a long time I will lose my ip address, subnet mask, and default gateway. To get it back I open the wireless card properties and and click Repair on the Support tab. This always seems to fix the problem. Other than that I have had no issues and I get great connectivity throughout my apartment. I rely on this wireless network heavily to work from home and I have to say that it works great.
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Summary: Stay away from Linksys WPC54g,not for novice
Review: I bought the Linksys wpc54g, this is a piece of garbage. If your laptop uses TI cardbus controllers, forget it, not compatable. If you have Win XP, you must not use the zero configuration utility, it can not use 128 bit wep encryption, and can only use AD-hoc mode. I returned this and bought a NetGear wireless card and BAM right out of the box it works great. Make sure your system is not incompatable before you buy, read what techies have to say about this linksys product.
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Summary: Works great
Review: Having a new Linksys WRT54G Wireless-G Router installed made me want to increase my wireless capabilities. It made sense to get the G card to link my old laptop that my teenage daughter uses to the router. It was a good choice. It installed easily and worked immediately. The connection is very fast as well. It only costs a few bucks more than the B band card. It is clearly worth it!
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Summary: This Thing Rocks
Review: What could be better than wireless internet. I get the internet fast and free with this connection. This thing rocks.
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Summary: Sweet Cable internet
Review: I have not lost my connection once and always have an excellent connection. Definitly worth the investment if you dont want to run wires through your entire house.
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Summary: Stay Away from Linksys!!!!
Review: This review is not only for their Wireless-G Notebook Adaptor Model WPC54G, but also for their USB wireless PC adaptor. Linksys Technical Service is terrible, needed help today to hook up both of these new items. Their reps were rude, unknowledgeable, and one even hung up on me when he couldn't answer the questions. Both of these items are being returned tomorrow....I'd rather stay wireless than deal with this rude customer service.
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Summary: 0 star and 5 stars so it got 3 stars
Review: The CD-rom that comes with the 54G wireless card is outdated. You need to download the latest drivers, or have Linksys e-mail them to you. Otherwise, you'd get a prompt asking for the mprapi.dll file, which does not exist on 98SE. And it screws up the already screwy AOL. Even with the newest drivers, if you have 98SE and AOL 9.0, or 98SE and AOL 8.0, you may as well forget it. Keep yourself wired instead. So, it gets 0 stars. The 54G wireless card and the 54G router work well with AOL 9.0 if you are running XP Pro. With XP Pro, it gets 5 stars. Installation is not as easy as you'd think. Maybe I'm just dumb. Try asking for a tech on the escalation team if you keep running into problems.
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Summary: BE AWARE of RTS threshold!!!
Review: XP + HP Pavilion + WPC54G + BEFW1154
Folks, that's not a joke, Lynksys documentation omits an essential point on RTS.
if you have poor pings after you've got the IP or even if you cannot get an IP from the router, you must change the RTS threshold in the configuration of your card at least to decrease it from 2347 to 2304. The connection's performances improve dramatically.
You can change them on the router, too, and on all the clients, but in my case it seemed unnecessary. If the WPC54G get a 2304 and the router keeps 2432 it works charme. With the default settings I've got 1 packet back from 20.... Now I am almost as wired. :)
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