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Summary: Easy Set-up with Great Reception and Price
Review: I have a D-Link Wireless Gateway + Switch, and this DWL-650 Card Worked out of the box with default settings. My Laptop was already set to Obtain IP automatically, so after the second restart i was connected to the Internet automatically.I never thought it could be this easy. It's easier than a wired connection because it eliminates the one extra step of plugging in the wires, plus you get to roam around your home. I even get good signals from my patio outside. The Signal Strength is Great all throughout my home, and i still can't get enough of this wireless concept.
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Summary: Crashing W2000 Every Time
Review: I use a Toshiba Portege 7000 series with Windows 2000. This card crashes my computer (yes, W2000 not W ME) every time I install it or boot up with it. Combined with my poor experience with the D-Link D713 P wireless router and the third-party support organization (SupportConcept), I cannot recommend D-Link products.
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Summary: 128 bit encryption with some effort
Review: After a few hours of experimenting, I have the D-Link DWL-650 running with 128 bit encryption with a Linksys BEFW11SW Wireless Access Point. This required the latest Linksys firmware upgrade, 1.37.9b, dated 6/21/2001. Without this firmware, WEP (Wireless Encryption Protocol) had to be disabled between the D-Link and Linksys products. I had to re-boot my Windows 2000 machine 3 times before the D-Link driver installed completely (it seemed to go a little farther each time.) I had a scare after upgrading the Linksys firmware, it locked up, but was fine after a power cycle. The placement of the wireless access point is critical to good connectivity. Aluminum heating vents definitely block the signal. Luckily, I found a spot in my office that gets 11 Mb transmission to almost all of my 3400 square foot home, the key was to get it away from the vent system, so it has a clean line of sight to the rest of the rooms.
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Summary: Does not work
Review: I bought 2 DWL-650's and the DI-713P gateway, after a pound of flesh I got the gateway up and running, I had to re-load the firmware and reset the hardware. But the cards never worked on my Windows 2000 machine. I would load the drivers and then insert the card, walk thru the wizard and my machine would then reboot and keep on crashing after every login. Tech support was awful, and could not help. I ended up borrowing a Lucent Orinoco card and was up in minutes. D-Link has poorly written, crummy drivers, stay away....I returned both DWL-650's
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Summary: Fails in most important respect - signal strength
Review: I agree with the reviewer who is having signal strength problems. In my house this D-Link card gets very low to non-existant signal. A computer next to it, with a Lucent Orinoco card gets full signal. I've tried moving them around and the Lucent consistently out-performs the D-Link. If you have an open plan room for your installation then no problem the D-Link works just fine, but if there are a few walls in the way, then buyer beware, not all cards are created equal.
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Summary: Works like a charm
Review: I bought the D-Link package (PCMCIA card + Access Point) and they both work like a charm. I get extremely fast throughput when in the same room, and moderately good throughput when I am on the other side of the house. Installation was a breeze, and it hasn't given me any problems so far. The only knock (and this applies for all wireless modems) is that the antenna sticks out of the side. In other words, you have to be careful lest to drop your laptop and break off the antenna by accident. If you decide to get the card, I recommend going with the D-Link Access Point, since I've heard problems mixing and matching equipment (even if they call claim to be compatible).
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Summary: Terrible Product.... Don't buy it
Review: I purchased this along with the Linksys Etherfast Wireless Cable/DSL Router. It was easy enough to install, it took like 10 minutes of reading, and 5 minutes of restarting my computer. I have the wireless access point set up in my kitchen, and when I take my laptop into the next room, i completely lose signal. This is incredibly frustrating, I read all the reviews on here before I purchased it, and I can't believe everyone gave it such good reviews. I also purchased a NetGear Wireless Card, which also ..., I don't know if my house?? It's wooden frame, with paperthin walls, honestly i dont know what the problem is, but its annoying, I'm definitley returning this product... I've heard good things about the Linksys Wireless card though, so we'll see how that goes
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Summary: Simply stay away from this product
Review: Continually crashes my Win2000 server (first time getting the blue screen on Win 2000). Called tech support. Don't be fooled by the first immediate response. Held up for about 1hr. Had to drop because the call isn't free!. Well, I did figure out the driver that crashes my machine. I found out that Linksys has a recent upgrade version of same driver. So, I replaced it with Linksys driver and everything seems to be ok. But whenever I loose signal for any reason, I would always have to reboot my server! My advice... stay away for these reasons: 1. Poor tech support 2. tech support not free 3. Outdated driver 4. Driver not compatible with Win2000 adv. server
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Summary: What the heck.......
Review: After purchasing D-Link's DWL-650 Wireless Card and the DWL-1000AP Access Point, I experienced a complete nightmare! I tried to install the software by first downloading it from D-Link's website. Then I followed the vaguely written instructions enclosed and made the network adjustments. My laptop computer crashed on the first re-start. And crashed again after trying to launch Explorer. The icon showed that I had full signal strength, but my Explorer now had a "module" error. My first reaction: uninstall the D-Link software and start over. The problem: it would NOT allow me to uninstall. WOW! I then called D-Link support and hung up after waiting a day on hold. The solution at hand: for some strange reason, after having my hand held by Compaq for three days of testing, my Win 98 OS had unrecoverable errors. I was forced to RESTORE my entire hard drive after transferring all important files to a backup drive. Nobody had any idea what had happened. Bad hardware? or software? What a nightmare.
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Summary: Don't buy this product
Review: I bought the access point and PC card and had a hell of a time configuring it on NT 4.0 on a laptop. It just doesn't see the wireless access point and I tried all manner of things for several hours. The range is also extremely poor -- it didn't work more than 50 feet and a few walls away from the access point. Do any of these things really have the advertised range?
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