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Summary: Works Great, and With new firmware suports 128-bit WEP
Review: I bought this a while back and didn't use the WEP because it didn't support 128-bit. But now you can download the new drivers from d-link tech support site and 128-bit is possible. Now I use the 128-bit encryption and there is little if no decrease in throughput. I personally noticed no difference in speed.It has been 3 months since I have owned this and it has never gone bad or decreased in singnal strength from my usual positions like the kitchen and outside patio. I have still to find a better Wireless PC card.
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Summary: I'd give it ZERO stars if I could
Review: I have built networks before, I am not an utter moron... nevertheless, couldn't get this freaking thing to work at all. After an hour on hold with tech support (not told free), and another 45 mins with the guy simply telling me to restart over and over, support told me to return the product. is no good
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Summary: doesn't support 128-bit encryption
Review: Although the card worked (with my SMC router/access point), it does not support 128-bit WEP as advertised by D-Link. I have to return the product as I need the 128-bit to be able to use the card at work as well as home. I like the card, just not the fact that D-Link says they support 128-bit encryption when they don't. I called D-Link support and they acknowledged the discrepancy.
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Summary: Works fine but........................
Review: I would give this unit 5 stars but for two things. The support stinks and the first one I had suffered complete hardware failure within 24 hours. The unit works very well after I replaced it. The monitoring software is excellent and the documentation is very good. No reservation there. The problem is the company itself. After having hardware failure I called the company for support. The number is not toll free. This doesn't bother me as long as I get help quickly. I didn't. I was put on hold for 45 minutes. When I was finally helped the tech support person said that D-Link wouldn't help me unless I owned the unit for 30 days. Until then I had to deal with my retailer. What a pain. It is there product they should take care of it. Secondly, he stated that the warranty method was for me to send the unit in and they would repair it and then ship it back. I don't think so. That is a useless policy. I would have to buy another unit anyway. I bought the unit online so I did the exchange and received another unit, which has worked fine. In the meantime I bought a Linksys card and it worked as well if not better. Linksys is not know for their customer support either so I am not sure which is a better route. I don't regret buying this card but I don't think the rest of my wireless roll out will be with D-Link equipment.
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Summary: Do not buy this product
Review: I purchased this PC card (2, for a 2-member home network) and the DWL1000 Access Point. The two machines were running Win2K Professional Workstation, app. 60 feet from each other on the same floor in different rooms. My main problems: 1. Initial setup was difficult due to poorly-written documentation. 2. The access point only registered on the console machine when I connected it via a crossover patch cable to a standard Ethernet NIC. 3. The remote machine never transmitted to the access point. 4. ALL my attempts to get tech support (email, phone) were frustrating and ultimately fruitless. The network never went up. The entire project was a waste of money and a good deal of time. I am a network administrator and consultant, and will cheerfully embrace any opportunity I can find to steer clients away from this company.
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Summary: Could not make it work
Review: I tried to install a Dlink wireless setup. First PC, a NT 4 WS box (with SP6 installed as required) would only blue screen at boot time with the card installed. Tried on a Win98 SE box but drivers would never load properly. Sat on hold for tech support for 1 hour and decided I did not need this kind of grief. Bought Linksys gear and it all plug & played as expected. NT box is happy, Win98 box is happy, Toshiba (4 years old) laptop with Win95 is happy. Sorry, D-Link sucked on this one.
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Summary: Incompatible with Windows NT
Review: Software was difficult to install and configure, and does not work with NT 4.0 on a laptop as advertised. I had to disable sleep on the laptop because the drivers crash when the machine enters sleep mode, forcing reboot. The product has decent throughput but very poor range. Stay away from this or the LinkSys cards (they use the same software and chipset).
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Summary: Easy to use Easier to install and Very Fast
Review: I will keep this short and sweet. This wireless PCMCIA card took less than 5 minutes to install, has very good range, and is plenty fast enough. I have a cable modem and Internet downloads don't take any longer when I am on my wireless connected computer or not. I do notice a differnce in peer-to-peer file transfer times, but that is expected when the max speed comes down from 100Mb to 11Mb.
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Summary: So Surprised I Created my own Wireless Network
Review: I originally bought this just so I could hook up to a friend of mines Wireless Network, and we could share files without having to be connected to a wall or box of some sort. I have to admit that my friend and I were thoroughly impressed. He had a different (I don't want to mention names) Wireless Card in his laptop that he always used and he was content with that, but when I showed up with my D-Link DWL-650 it out performed his card in transfer speeds. And the kicker is that my laptop is older and slower than his. We got curious and switched cards and did a clean installation to see if it was a fluke but when it was in his laptop it still out performed his other cards. After finding this out and more extensive use of his wireless network, I had to have my own. I bought the D-Link Access point and hooked it up to my already existing wired network and I have to say I am very impressed. Laptops were made for mobility it is sad it took this long for wireless to be readily available. Highly recommended.
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Summary: Just what I expected
Review: I don't know much about rating the performance for this pretty much "basic" Wireless PC Card, but knowing that it is from D-Link I have more faith in it lasting longer without problems. I have had nothing but good experiences with D-Link products and I I will keep buying them until I am let down. Everything was easy to set-up and it works well with my works little wireless network.
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