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Linksys WCF12 Wireless-B Network CompactFlash Card (Type I)

Linksys WCF12 Wireless-B Network CompactFlash Card (Type I)

List Price: $144.95
Your Price: $63.54
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Rating: 2 stars
Summary: 1 star for Linksys and 3 for the product
Review: I was awful excited about a wifi card for slot 1 pda's. But lo-and-behold, the wcf12 doesn't currently support HP Jornada 54X series PDA's. Linksys support and engineering acknowledge this and state they are working on a release of an updated driver. You can find that out IF the tech support rep knows what he's talking about (most don't know what a jornada is). I did some hunting and pecking and finally found the beta out in a newsgroup. It works, but Linksys won't support it "yet". It's been over a month since they told me it'd be out in the next week....Think twice..or search the net...Hint - Yahoo groups - HP Jornada clubs...good luck.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Doesn't work with my HP Jornada 548
Review: In spite of what the box says (Windows CE 3.0), it just doesn't work with my HP Jornada 548 PocketPC and Linksys doesn't even answer my emails!!! The install utility came back with a message saying that the device connected (Jornada 545) was not supported with the WCF12.

I bought it and can't use it! :-(

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: nice thing, but not really usable
Review: I have to agree that this is a nice card from outside to inside compare to its competiters.

But, at the same time, current day's technology really [is not good], not linksys's fault. Three things killed all wireless CF card:

1. They are battery killer, they are not just hungry for power, they are real killer! Every wireless cf card take at least 250mA, those power saving card REQUIRES advanced feature to support it on the AP side, which most home AP does not.

2. They are still big and ugly. True that this linksys card is much better than the dlink 650, but it is still such an ugly thing extruding from my PDA ...

3. Last, pocket IE [is not good] ...... you can not seriouly use it, although it IS fun to try it.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Your PDA needs this.
Review: Well I just got this card in the mail today and it is performing flawlessly. I have an iPaq 3640 which has the PCMCIA jacket. I am actually writting this review and listening to streaming music on my iPaq right now. For those of you wondering, I am using a PCMCIA to CF adaptor.

When I turn my iPaq on it it takes about 2 seconds to link up to my wireless router. The drivers are very good. A small icon shows up in the bottom right corner of the iPaq on the "today" screen. From there you can change the speed of your conection, encryption, and a bunch of other network settings. You can also keep an eye on how good of a conection you have. At 11mb I only get down to a 60% conection quality at the bottom, inside of my house. That is going through brick walls and all.

My advice is to buy a wireless network and get this card for your PDA to greatly increase its usefulness, functionality, and gadgetyness.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Works well, but range not as good as other cards
Review: I used the card with my Zaurus PDA.
The card works well, and comes with a useful case.
The range of the card was shorter than that of an
Ambicom card I later bought.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: It works mostly
Review: Got this card for my Casio E-125 PocketPC. Fits quite snuggly in the CF slot, but it goes in with a little patience. The drivers out of the box said that it did not work with the "connected device". So I downloaded the slightly newer driver from the website. The new driver installed and I was able to set the SSID during installation. But the Linksys Wireless CF Control panel doesn't work keeps saying that I'm missing a progam or library. (I've reinstalled numerous times to no avail)

I can however connect, so the only access control I can turn on is MAC level from the access point (USR8011). I suspect WEP is setup in the control panel that I can't start on the E-125.

Drains the battery significantly as well. Equivalent to running some media playback, and having the screen on all the time (cause that's pretty much what you'll be doing).

Connects fast! Maybe a second or two and the card is connected.
So it works adequately, I just don't know if I'm missing anything with the lack of WEP.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Doesn't work with Windows Mobile 2003
Review: Card worked with PPC2002, but when I upgraded my Dell Axim X5 to Windows Mobile 2003, the card stopped working. Have followed all the advice on Linksys' website to no avail. Tech Support does not respond by email or telephone. Try another card with Windows Mobile 2003.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Linkys WCF12
Review: This is the biggest POS i have EVER came into contact with. It doesnt' work with pocket PC 2003 period dot com. I have never had a problem with Linksys products up until now, i am very glad i haven't as their tech/customer service sucks complete A$$. I spent 15 hours on the phone with them (i would say over 12 hours on hold), more than 10 hours trying to get this thing to work right and still nothing. Add to that they want to try to charge me to

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Works perfectly right out of the box.
Review: I followed the setup instructions and it worked right away. I get great signal strength anywhere in the house. It has a built-in feature for storing multiple config profiles so you don't have to reconfig for different WLANs. Nice touch. Highly recommended.

BTW, I have an IPAQ 3765 with the CF expansion sleeve running PPC 2002.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Rubbish!
Review: Just got my HP2215 and WCF12 today, and it's been almost 12 hours, I have tried almost every GOD-DAMN thing and still this bloody thing does'nt work! and i just ordered an AmbiComm card, hope that works! so that's $50 which im never gonna see again - my advice, don't bother buying this product!!!


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