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Netgear MA101 802.11b Wireless USB Adapter

Netgear MA101 802.11b Wireless USB Adapter

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Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Fine for web browsing, but that's about it.
Review: The good: It installs easily enough, and I've always had excellent signal strength with it.

The bad: If you're using Windows XP and want to do anything but browse the Internet, return this adapter immediately! It is NOT compatible with the Wireless Zero Config service in XP. Every 60 seconds, it drops the connection and reconnects in about 5 seconds. So this adapter is fairly useless for online games, streaming mp3's from another pc on the network, SSH connections, or anything else that requires constant connections.

The ugly: It seems as if NetGear has completely abandoned this product! The software download page makes you guess which driver is the right one, and it hasn't been updated in forever... Maybe there's just not a way to fix it...

My verdict: If you just want to browse the web, and you can pick one up cheap, go for it. But with Linksys adapters selling for the same price, I can't see why you would.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Worked great for me!
Review: I've used the MA101 with two different routers and it has worked great on them both. The computer runs Windows 98. I've gotten good signal strength even through it has to travel through a few walls. I enabled 128-bit encryption without any noticeable decrease in performance.


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