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Summary: After an initial disappointment, I am loving this adapter...
Review: This purchase was my first attempt with wireless, and what you've read hear is true--it blue screened my IBM Thinkpad 600 laptop running WindowsXP, crashed it and restarted it repeatedly. It caused even more unpleasantries when I installed it on a desktop I built that is running Windows98SE. However, once I downloaded the driver, version 2.0 off Netgear's website, all was well and fixed, for the most part. The CD came with Version 1.1, which seemed to be causing all the problems. Anyway, after I installed the new version and draped the adapter out my window, I was surfing the net.
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Summary: Netgear USB Wireless Adapter MA111
Review: This is a great product but it will not work under Windows 98. I spent several very frustrating days trying to make it do so. Finally I upgraded to Windows 98 SE and it works like a charm.
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Summary: Nice and easy to use product
Review: I have used this product on a Win2000 based Laptop computer. It installed easily and I was up and running with my Netgear wireless router. I have seen reviews here that are positive and negative about this product. My experience has been very positive.
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Summary: Perfect on XP, acceptable on 98
Review: I just got the device this afternoon, so here are my results from about 4 hours of messing with it.On XP Home, it runs perfectly. Once configured, which was very quick, I can plug & unplug the device as often as I want with no problems. On 98, however, I could only get it to work if 1) I updated the drivers to 2.0, and 2) I booted with the device connected. Under these circumstances, and no others, could I get it to work on 98. Even with these changes, if I unplug the device before I power down, or if it is still connected when I power down, the system hangs.
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Summary: Blah
Review: I bought the Netgear 814 router and this MA111 USB device at the same time. Router works great. When I first installed the MA111 it worked great. Plug and Play. Later however the green LED just kept blinking and wouldn't connect when the computer was rebooted. I couldn't even get into the configuration utility. After much trial and error I came up with a solution. I hate to go to into the Networking folder, disable the device, enable it, then go to the configuration utility. In the utility I changed the trasmit rate to something else hit OK. Instantly it connected and everything worked great. However after you reboot you have to do this process each and every time. It doesn't automatically connect on its own. What a pain to get it started. Running Windows 2000 Pro in case anyone is wondering.
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Summary: no problems by me!
Review: I installed this adapter on two computers (both computers were built), with almost no trouble. Both were running Windows XP SP1. One of the computers, for the some reason, automatically reset itself after installing the driver (then it did a disk-check), but upon restarting windows, the thing worked just fine. My only problem I've been having with this thing is reception, as I am wondering if this thing has bad reception because of the fact that it is so small, or because it doesn't have antennas like some other receivers do.
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Summary: I'm impressed with this product
Review: Bottom line, I'm very impressed with this product. Very easy to install and use. Comes with good accessory and easy to use software. I saw one review comment here saying that this product is causing a blue crashing screen. From my experience, it happens on other wireless products from Linksys and D-Link as well. It's your computer's problem, not from Netgear
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Summary: AVOID LIKE THE PAGUE!!! CRASHED my Windows XP
Review: I installed drivers for MA111 USB adapter on my desktop, as directed by Netgear technical support. Unfortunately this install caused my OS to crash and I am unable to boot up my PC anymore. Each time I try to boot it prompts me to boot in one of XP's boot modes and each mode takes me to the blue screen and causes my PC to restart every time.
I am surprised and disappointed that being such a reputed company, Netgear can manufacture such a raw product that can cause such significant damages. Save yourself from a potentially similar situation --- AVOID this product!!!
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Summary: Blue screens Win XP
Review: I've used this adapter on three different PC's and it bluescreens XP once or twice per day on average. I've uninstalled/re-installed, and updated drivers on the XP machines with no improvement. Windows 2000 works OK. General wireless performance is in line with the other PCMCIA based 802.11 cards I've used.
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Summary: works great after a little finagaling
Review: I decided to try this USB adapter after having lots of problems with the D-Link 650+ PC card on my Dell 4150 laptop. I was hoping there would be fewer compatability issues and I wanted to be able to use on my wife's laptop whenever she brought it home. From the D-Link experience, I had already updated XP with SP1, my BIOS for my laptop, and my Synaptics touchpad driver. I than installed the Netgear USB Adapter driver tried out my new toy. It worked right away but I got the blue screen a few times. After loading the newest driver from Netgear it has been flawless since.
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