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Linksys WPC11 Wireless-B Notebook Adapter

Linksys WPC11 Wireless-B Notebook Adapter

List Price: $59.99
Your Price: $41.99
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Rating: 1 stars
Summary: it works okay, but if you get it working don't touch it
Review: I made a few changes to the card settings in the configuration utility that came with the card. It has not worked since. I changed the settings back the way they were in the beginning. I've uninstalled and reinstalled the software/hardware a half dozen times and I've still got problems. It shouldn't be this hard. There have to be better wireless cards out there.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: linksys card
Review: Do Not Buy. This card has caused me and my roomate so much frustration, I feel like Linksys should be paying me. Internet service is never constant, and tech support is harder to get a hold of than the president. Don't give this company any more money until they make a product that works.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Pretty Good Card - Range isnt that great.
Review: At school there is a wireless network and i always use this card to get on to the network. There are 7 routers, and many places that i have access to wireless. But in some of those places, the card cannot keep a steady connection and the only page it will be able to load is google. THis happens even when the signal strength is good. i dont know if it is the new apple airports that the school has, but im not too satisfied with it.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: No good
Review: Very weak. I bought this with the linksys router, antenna, and antenna booster. It could not pick up a signal one floor away (< 100 feet). Granted, I am in an old house with plaster and wire lathing. The Netgear card is infinitely superior and saved me from my plan to hard wire the antenna down to the second floor.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Works well
Review: I used this card for over a year now at my home wireless network and at an office wireless network. It was used with the Linksys WAP11. Office has metal framing, but didn't seem to cause interference. It's proven to be a reliable solution for me. I would recommend.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Works great, but why did they change the chipset?
Review: It works great in Windows, the signal strength was about 75% even 200ft away (indoors) and I still got a consistent 4Mbps out of it. The setup in Windows XP was as simple as it is for every other Wireless card.

The whole reason I bought the card was because the Prism chipset is supported in Linux. Unfortunately, Linksys did the underhanded thing and changed it in the V4 revision without notifying anybody or changing the model number. Linksys tech support say they have no plans to release Linux drivers either. This is really bad business practise and I hope they change their policies.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: WPC11 v4 Not Compatible With Windows CE 2.11, v3 Was
Review: While the version 3 of this card was compatible with Windows CE 2.11 for my HP Jornada 680 Handheld PC, version 4 of the WCP11 card is not compatible with Windows CE 2.11. I bought the card (version 4) from Amazon after carefully checking web sites and user groups to confirm that the Linksys WCP11 would be compatible with my 680. I found multiple sites assuring me that the WPC11 card worked with Windows CE 2.11. That information used to be correct. The Linksys web site does not make it clear that the version 4 WPC11 is an entirely new card with a different chip set, a different bus (Cardbus), and completely different software compatibilities than the version 3 card. If one tries to download Windows CE drivers for the version 4 WPC11 card the Linksys download site confusingly offers up the contents of the CD-ROM that came with the v4 card, which do not include Windows CE 2.11 drivers. Nowhere on the Linksys site can one determine that v3 supports Windows CE 2.11 and v4 does not (that I could find in several hours of searching, at least). A phone call to Linksys technical support finally confirmed that the version 4 card is not compatible with Windows CE 2.11 and the version 3 card (available from Linksys but not, I gather, from Amazon) is indeed compatible with Windows CE 2.11. Technical support also confirmed that v4 is not compatible with Windows CE 2.11 and will not be.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Perfomance degrades over time
Review: This card worked initially, but over 6 months it had more and more connection problems untill it just stopped working.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Enter the world of WiFi
Review: Plug this device into your laptop and you will have Internet access for thousands of WiFi hotspots all over the world. Some you have to pay for, but increasingly hotels and cities are making them available for free.

In addition, you can make your home completely wireless by installing a wireless router and wireless print servers.

All of the parts worked perfectly for me with no installation hassles whatsoever. This is absolutely the way to go.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Easy installation, reliable performance, good price
Review: The Linksys wireless adapter for notebooks works great with my home network. It was easy to install and I can move it back and forth between two different notebooks, depending on whether or not my kid is home from college and needs to hook into our cable modem. When he's not around, the adapter can go into another family member's laptop. Overall, a good buy and excellent performance.


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