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Netgear MA311 802.11b Wireless PCI Card

Netgear MA311 802.11b Wireless PCI Card

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Easy to install, excellent connection on windows 98 desktop.
Review: Turned off power, took off cover, installed card, replaced cover, booted, pc found new hardware, loaded cd in drive, pointed to it in dialogue, driver was loaded, network was found, connection made, no problem. I adjusted the antennae and connection is now consistently excellent. All in about five minutes.

Much better than the approx. eight hours I spent on the linksys usb adaptor before I gave up and returned it.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Range Claims exagerated
Review: Wire less Router MR814V2. I got everything to work right out of the box pretty quickly and easily. Have three computers running through it, one using a standard rj45 cable, which works quite well. The other is using the MA311 PCI wireless card, and a Dell laptop using MA401. At a distance of 80 to 90 feet through the house the MA311 gets a 30% signal at best, and the MA401 gets 0% and will not connect to router. Tech support stepped me though a few things. But ended up telling me it's too far away from the base station, and that it was not really designed to function in a 2-Story Environment. I have limited experience with this type of networking but it seems that with a claim of 500 feet max range, an 80 foot distance should be working much better.


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