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Summary: Fantastic Product
Review: The installation of this network interface card was amazingly easy. It works great with my DSL connection and would highly recommend it. That is all I have to say because the installation of this card was that quick!!
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Summary: Nice product for the price
Review: Easy to install, works well, decent features for the price and never a problem with the speed auto-detect (had nightmares with a far more expensive card). Linux drivers work nice too!
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Summary: cheap and effective
Review: This network adapter provides good performance and an excellent price and should adequately serve the networking needs of most users. However, I had a few stability issues in one system after installing this card. Moreover, it doesn't offer the extra performance, management features, and support of a premium NIC, although such frills should not be expected at this price level.
I used two of these NICs (chipset version 4.1) for a home network and found their performance satisfactory. Installation was simple, and the manual was clear and descriptive. Functional Windows 9x drivers were loaded from the included diskette, and the latest drivers are available on the Linksys website. Unfortunately, the included diagnostic program works only when the system is booted in MS-DOS; it does not work within Windows. This limitation could become an inconvenience when troubleshooting network problems, especially in an OS that does not have a true MS-DOS mode, such as Windows NT/2000 or Linux.Also, I encountered some stability problems after installing this NIC in an IBM Aptiva with a SIS chipset. Occasionally I would get the blue screen of death (BSOD) in Windows 98 after performing some network file transfers with another PC. The BSODs would usually refer to an conflict in a VxD, which usually means a device driver issue. Although the BSODs were not frequent enough to drive me to madness, they were annoying. I've used pricier NICs from networking giants 3Com and Intel, and they offer niceties like reduced CPU utilization, hardware packet encryption, and Windows-based configuration and diagnostic programs. You may also get better tech support from these companies, although I fortunately don't have the experience to confirm this. However, unless you are a network administrator or power user, you would probably not appreciate or use these benefits enough to justify the significant price differential, and you would thus do well to buy the Linksys LNE100TX or similar low-price NIC's. Just don't expect peak performance or premium features from a NIC when you're paying peanuts for it. Compare with: Netgear FA312, SMC 1255TX, D-Link DFE-530TX+
Pricier alternatives: 3Com 3C905C-TX-M, Intel Pro/100 S
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Summary: great card & great price
Review: Having used a lot of Linksys products in the past, I generally find them to be best value for the money, and they get the job done well. I purchased this particular card for my cable internet at home a few months ago, and everything has worked fine with it so far. Not only is the price of this card very good, but I think Linksys has done a very nice job making the installation instructions simple and easy-to-understand. Also, this card works just fine with Windows XP; you don't even need to do anything but install the card in the computer, XP has the drivers built in.
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Summary: plug-n-play for linux
Review: Plugged it into my Linux box, rebooted, and the system recognized it and set it up first try. No drivers to fiddle with, no config files to decipher. Excellent.
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Summary: great card, easy install, no problems
Review: i got this card for my pc when i got a dsl modem and wanted to network a few pc's onto it. the install was very easy for this, they had directions for installing on just about any type of os available. it also has a few nice features on it such as WoL, for those of you who don't know what this means it stands for "wake on LAN" which allows a user on one pc to turn on or "wake up" a pc with this feature enabled from their pc. so far i've had no problems with it or with the hub i got for the network, which was a 4-port 10/100 linksys hub.
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Summary: Great product! Easy and very useful! LINKSYS DOES IT AGAIN!
Review: Home networking is something that if you have more than one computer in your house, then there is no doubt of doing it. A broadband connection is a plus in my opinion. This card is one of the cheapest out there and yet, it performs like any other. I get speeds up to 100 mb/s. This is very important for networks because of the sharing of the internet connection, sharing files (transferring too), and my favorite thing to do, gaming. I have friends come over all the time playing over our network games. We have a blast. It wouldn't have been possible for us to have a great time without this little piece of plastic and steel with some connectors that costed me a very ... amount. Linksys is my company of choice when it comes to networking. It is so easy to set up. Don't get a professional and waste money. I was up in 5 minutes and don't tell me it was my mad skills in the computer world. Either way, this is a surefire hit! Don't go wrong! Get this and your won't be dis-satisfied.
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Summary: Higly Recommended
Review: Out of the Box set-up, been running since 2/2/2001 with NO PROBLEMS!!! Wow!!
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Summary: It doesn't get any easier
Review: I recently picked up two of these cards to hang two systems off of a cable modem. The installation couldn't have been easier. Just plug the card in and install the drivers. Windows (ME) had no problem recognizing the card on either machine. Once the cable modem was installed everything worked like a charm. Two words of warning:
- The directions are very complete, but don't include specific directions for Windows ME. I doubt this would trip anybody up and the Windows 98 directions are certainly good enough. - The drivers available on the Linksys website require you to know information that is only available on the card. If for some reason your box doesn't have a driver disk (one of mine didn't), make sure to download the correct driver set before installing the card.
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Summary: Very happy
Review: I bought three of these and the Linksys Etherfast 4-port Cable/DSL router (BEFSR41) to hook my computers to my ADSL broadband. The LAN cards went into three very different computers ranging from an older AT motherboard with a Pentium 120 running Windows 95 to an ATX motherboard with an 800 MHz Pentium III running Windows 98SE. These LAN cards just went straight in to each of the three computers and worked immediately with the normal plug&play installation. The router also worked perfectly once I had the settings sorted in the computers. I now have simultaneous broadband from any of the computers and it has been working fine for over six months.
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