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D-Link DWL-650 Wireless 802.11b PC Card

D-Link DWL-650 Wireless 802.11b PC Card

List Price: $49.99
Your Price: $37.99
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Rating: 3 stars
Summary: It works good in toshiba but not compaq presario!
Review: good connection with my netgear router
but once i plug into compaq presario 2800, it halt

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Works
Review: Not sure why lot of others are having problems.. but this took two reboots and 2 minutes to setup and load webpages with the D-Link wireless router.

Sure I'll agree their phone support is subpar, but once you get it works and it doesn't break.. then who really cares ?

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Great Affordable Card
Review: Mainly going to use this card to surf the internet at Cafe's, airports, etc. Great little card, set up easily on my old old laptop, connected to network easily and away I went. Great card for old or new laptops

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Simple and Successful
Review: I purchased this WiFi card and signed up for T-Mobile's Wireless HotSpot service, and all I had to do was take my laptop to Starbucks, pop in the WiFi card (and go through one-time automatic installation), and then open my web browser (and log into T-Mobile) to surf the web. It was incredibly easy, and now I can surf the web, check email, and even connect to my company's VPN from Starbucks, the airport, or Borders.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Just about destroyed two laptops
Review: I installed two of these cards on my Mom and Dad's laptops. One, a Compaq Presario running Windows ME, became completely hosed after the install software destroyed the registry. I'm going to have to reinstall the whole machine.

The other, a Dell Latitude running Windows 2000 Pro, goes into an endless reboot loop if the card is plugged in. Both the HW and SW are junk in my opinion.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: DWL-650
Review: Best bang for the buck if you are using Windows 98 or 2000. I had fantastic reception on a compaq and toshiba laptop. I was using the first generation Linksys Access point with this card...works great! The Dlink DWL-650 had better reception than the first generation linksys PC card does. I upgraded my OS to Windows XP and the card DOES NOT WORK WITH XP. I believe the 650+ works with XP. Do not buy the DWL-650 if you have Windows XP on your laptop.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: The Worst Wireless-Card Ever!
Review: D-link wireless card is simply the worst wireless card I've ever seen. I bought this card to use it at my university's library. However, this card failed to provide a stable connection with their network. The problem was the card was showing a strong connection for one minute and for another minute the network was unavailable!! Get a Microsoft's card instead of this card

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: What a POS - for the love of God, get a Orinoco Gold!
Review: What a waste of hard-earned money. Whoever designed this should be tarred and feathered! Not worth $half the price of a good card. I don't know how many public places it keeps [failing] in... at school, Starbucks, libraries, etc... Greatest problem ----- keeps disconnecting, then connecting, then disconnecting (1 minute it says connection "Excellent-11Mbps", a second later "Low signal or No Connection" all while I'm sitting at the same seat/table! Very very annoying... Glad I have a XP OS, my friends with DELLS in Windows 2000 just LOVE it when they have to type in the SSID every freaking time they go to a new place. Too bad Amazon.com doesn't have a 0 star rating for this product, it deserves it. As you see from my name, this looked like a hot deal, but the only thing that got hot was my temper.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: D-Link generally is ok
Review: I have the D-link router 614+ and the DWL-650, among others. First, they are priced okay. Second, they are easy to set up. Third, the web-site support is pretty decent. I'd bypass the phone tech support because of the same problems other reviewers have cited elsewhere, but this limited tech support is generally true for all of these low-cost items. Lastly, however, the range is very limited. I'd have the connection dropped off intermittently 2 floors up/down or 2 rooms away from the router. I'd probably buy it again, nevertheless, because other made-for-home products (e.g., Linsys) are more or less the same. One must recognize its limited range, which is a lot less than advertized.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Didn't work at first, but AMAZING customer tech support
Review: I felt the need to write this review just to compliment the amazing customer service I received. I actually bought this at a warehouse type retailer, and of course you aren't going to get any technical support from oneof those places. I called the 800 number and (GASP) got a person who was polite, helpful, and very patient with me as he walked me through upgrading the firmware. In this day & age when customer service is an archeological relic, they were amazingly helpful, responsive, and effective. I have had no trouble using it in my house with the D-link wireless router, and I use it at a distance of >120 feet from the base station regularly.


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