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Summary: Waste of time for MACS and OS X
Review: So far, this is the biggest piece of junk I have ever purchased. Most of the other reviews have stated the fact well, that this unit crashes OS X on a highly regular basis. When I purchased it there were no reviews out there, I wish I had waitied and read some reviews. I also was a victim of D Links tech support. "Reinstall drivers" became a recurring answer from them, and that does not work. Congratulations D Link, you have made the only product that has ever crashed my Mac and OS X!
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Summary: Works Great on Mac and Windows
Review: I purchased this for an Apple i-Book. After downloading the new drivers from the D-link web site, the DWL-122 works fantastic with the OS 10.2.8 Jaguar version. No crashes, no freezes, easy install and setup. I use this at the Coffee shop on their WiFi access, but I like to compute from my car while sitting in the parking lot drinking coffee. I tested this D-link DWL-122 from about 150 feet away from the Coffee shop and had a very good consistant signal. It never dropped off during 5 hours of net surfing. AFter reading all the reports about the DWL-122 not working with the Mac OS, I almost returned it, but am glad I did not. The included light weight USB cable makes it easy to postion for good reception. This is a very good purchase because it works equally well on both my Apple and PC computers, it is very small and durable, and the price is right. If you are looking for a good inexspensive USB WiFi for the Mac OS X, this one works great. The power output is a meer 40 miliwatts which makes it suprising how well it radiates, but that is what a good antenna design can do and the low power consumption makes for longer battery life. All the Mac OS technical issues with the driver have been solved. D-link tech support is also very good because you can actually get them on the phone and they will help you. That accounts for alot in a tech world where many other companies hide behind a web site. Go D-link DWL-122 all the way for USB WiFi!
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Summary: Very Poor Mac Compatability
Review: Despite advertising claims to the contrary (i.e. "Supports MacOS X 10.2 and Later"), this product DOES NOT support 10.3. The drivers cause 10.3 to crash (seemingly randomly) after about 10-15 minutes or so -> nothing else has been able to bring 10.3 down on my machine, but the DWL-122 manages to cause a good ol' OS 9 style complete freeze. I emailed the company asking about a timetable for new drivers, but they have not responded. The connection is also intermittent (despite being about 10 ft from the router) on an eMac running 10.2. Unfortunately, it seems like the best option is to save your pennies and buy an Airport card - a dispointing option for those of us who wanted a USB adapter we could use on multiple machines.
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Summary: Don't trust the box when it says 10.2 and above
Review: The box claims this thing works for OS X 10.2 and above. When I installed it on my 10.3 box, I was unable to boot even into single user mode. I had to actually do a clean install to 10.2 to get it to work. Even then performance was terrible, and I encountered random crashes. Mac users know how tough it is to completely freeze OS X ... great work, D-Link.Their customer service was absolutely terrible. They had no solutions, and wouldn't cover my restocking fee if I had to take the thing back. They reasoned that they could state that they support "10.2 and above" or "10.2 and later" because they may some day have 10.3 drivers. Spend the extra $20 and get a wireless bridge or gamelink.
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Summary: Works well for what it is
Review: The actual hardware works fine. I've so far tested it under Windows XP and Linux. The drivers, as others have stated, lack polish. Under Windows XP the supplied D-Link utility is useless -- it won't even run. However, you can set it up using the normal XP wireless tools. If you download and install the wlan-ng package, it also works fairly well under Linux, but takes some hacking. I had to write a small script to delay the wlan-ng event handler's invocation of ifup, otherwise it tried to bring up the interface before a link to the wireless access point was established, and it failed. I bought this because my old Prism card, the only one Linux understood of all my various wireless cards, did not do WEP. The DWL-122 uses a Prism 2.5 chip, so will do 128-bit WEP, but not the more secure 256-bit WEP. Others have asked about signal strength. I was two walls away from my access point and I was getting 4 out of 5 bars at worst. You can also stick this on the end of a USB extension and move it around to find a stronger signal, which you can't do with a normal Cardbus adapter. It's not fast, it's not fancy, but it does seem to work and is tiny and portable and runs everywhere even on desktop computers. So I'm keeping it. It is now my standard wireless interface.
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Summary: Well...
Review: Nice package, and I really like how small it is. BUT!!!! Some iMac users will be frustrated with it. The drivers do not appear to integrate well into OS X. For example, sometimes the device is not recognized at startup, so I have to unplug it and plug it back in. Annoying. It also displays incorrect connectivity information, and the utility is overall rather slow and quirky. Finally, I had to disable WEP because the incorrect key would always transmit. Overall, I have a good connection, but the bugs are too annoying for me, and I am returning the unit. Belkin makes an adapter compatible with OS X, and I hear AeroPad is good too. Apple's Airport, of course, is probably the best solution but is costly.
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Summary: Excellent price, but some difficulty in installation
Review: The D-Link DWL-122 is overall a so-so product. Price after rebates was $29, the cheapest product I could find. There was some difficulty in the installation (Windows XP Home), as the drivers needed updating. Took about an hour to get it all set up, Windows finally detected a network and it was up and running.
The price is excellent, I don't think you can find anything as cheap as this right now. However, the speed of this adapter varies constantly. My signal reception is "very good", but the transfer speed sometimes can be as low as 1.0 Mbps.
Recommended for those on a tight budget, but in the future I would go for something like the Netgear Wireless G USB adapter. 3 Stars for the inconsistent signal and difficulty in installation.
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Summary: It would be better if it just didn't work, but unfortunately
Review: it kills Mac OS X. There's very few products out there where you can honestly say that it would be less disappointing if it just weren't working at all. Stay away from this product for Mac OS X. The best you can hope to have after much tinkering is, as others have noted here, an intermittent connection of poor strength, that will take forever to start up, and that will crash your system frequently. Sure it's cheaper than the competing Apple product, but it doesn't work reliably, destabilizes your system, can't easily be removed, and the company won't acknowledge its problems on the Mac platform.
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Summary: Looks sexy, but very bad wireless adapter for MacOSX
Review: - high latency at boot time
- failure to connect to wifi network at boot time
- high rate of connection drops (every 2-5 min)
- crash while going on suspend mode
- sometimes the wifi config panel would crash the system
- the first driver provided on the cd-rom with the device made the system crash at startup Overall, having to reboot every 5 minutes makes this device completely unusable. I have bought this device on the Internet since its not sold in my country and Wifi adapters for Mac are quite rare. When I called the D-LINK US support, the guys refused to support me because I was calling from outside of America ! And they pretend to be a global company ! When I contacted them by email, the only answer they could provide me was to reinstall the latest drivers (which I was already running). DWL-122 = Buggy drivers + inefficient technical support
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Summary: Excellent price, but you'll get signal drop sometimes
Review: Great price, but the range has to be considered. If you're looking to share with computers in a small area (all computers in one section of the house, dorm, etc...) it should be fine except for the occasional droped signal. Performance is good (using D-Link 2.4GHz 80211.B router) my wife can watch Launch music videos at high-bandwidth settings at full speed (again, only problem is ocassional signal drop and it usually kicks right back in so you just get an annoying pause here and there).
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