D-Link DWL-650 Wireless 802.11b PC Card

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Summary: Works ok for a low end card. Otherwise look elsewhere.
Review: I had this card along with a linksys, and a orinoco. The Dlink was not built well, in fact it broke just a week ago. The orinoco is without doubt the best for reception as well as physical stregth. Orinoco is packaged under names such as Dell True Mobile, IBM High Rate, and a bunch of others.

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Summary: Easy to setup. I am satisfied.
Review: Just a few min. to set it up to work with my Netgear MR814 wireless router on the second floor. Excellent connection anywhere inside my two story home. I tested outside my home. When the connection became lost I moved closer to the router but the connection wouldn't back on automatically. I need to pull and insert card again in order to have it connected again. Not sure this is common problem. No experience with other cards as this is my first one.

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Summary: Wrong Marketing, Bad product
Review: I bought this item from Amazon.com based on the editorial reviews but found out that it does not even have proper drivers to work with Windows XP even though D-Link says the card works with XP but if you go ot the manufacturer's site, it tells you thet the drivers are not certified to work with XP. Also, the configuration manager utilty does not work on XP or windows 2000 so it was very difficult to get this card working with other wireless routers. I totally regret buying this card.

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Summary: Good... but you'd better have Windows XP
Review: Good card - works just as well as a Cisco - but I faced installations problems with Windows 2000. Windows XP worked just fined though - so I upgraded my OS.

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Summary: This is a Cardbus adapter
Review: Like all the D-Link products I've purchased, this is a high quality card that is easy to install and works great. The product description is a little confusing. This is a 32-bit Cardbus adapter; therefore, it only works in a newer notebook computer. So if your 4 year old notebook supports Type-II PC cards, this card will not work.

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Summary: This is a Cardbus adapter
Review: This is not a Type II PC Card. It is a 32-bit Cardbus adapter. It works great it my new notebook, but I bought for my 5 year old notebook with the Type II slots.

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Summary: WLAN with D-Link is awesome
Review: DWL-650 and 900AP work great! Very easy and quick to get up and running (about 20 minutes start to wireless access). Set up is straight forward. I get all the bandwidth I need all around the house.

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Summary: Don't buy this !!!
Review: I installed it in my laptot. Everything is fine EXPECT it always disconnect about 3 esconds every minute. Quality is not good. I used my laptop just near my wireless access point (2 feet far) .. and it got disconnected sometimes.

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Summary: This thing worked great!
Review: I loaded the software into my Compaq PC, plugged in the card and within seconds was asked which of two operating networks I wished to connect to. I logged in and voila! it worked great (into an Apple airport network, by the way!). I was at a conference in a large hotel and I connected from one end of the conference center to the other. It couldn't have been any simpler. This thing is great!

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Summary: no way
Review: I bought my fist DWL-650 card and it lasted 3 months and quit. I have to mention that during that 3 months it worked perfectly with 50 feet of range (indoors). I called D-link and returned it. They found it to be faulty and sent me a "new" card. This card set up and worked fine but I can't go further than 10-15 feet from the D-link router and I loose the signal. The tech support is pathetic and it takes them a month to repair/replace your card.