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Summary: A Product or Support Issue?
Review: I purchased a Linksys WPC54A and a WAP54A. The WPC54a card will not work. Not under WIN XP, not under WIN 98SE.Calling Linksys tech support (on 3 separate occasions) did not help. They blamed the notebook (a Fujitsu and Acer) or an IRQ incompatibility (although I told them the IRQ used by the WPC54A card was available). Bottom line ... I have 2 Linksys products that do not work.
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Summary: Caused laptops to hang
Review: I purchased two of Linksys' 802.11a PC Cards, due to pleasant experiences with Linksys products in the past. However, this product caused two laptops (Dell Latitude C840, Toshiba Portege 3480) to hang. The laptops were both running Windows XP. I contacted Linksys' technical support, who stated that the problem was due to IRQ conflicts, and that I would have to contact the laptop manufacturer technical support to reassign the IRQs; however, Dell's technical support confirmed that the IRQs cannot be reassigned. I again contacted Linksys' technical support who told me that the product was not compatible and that I should return it.
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Summary: Tablet PC Woes with WPC54A
Review: I spent many hours with Linksys Tech trying resolve be inability to make a connection with this card in my ACER Tablet PC running XP Pro all to no avail. The last time I tried to get some result, it locked up and I got a Stop Error message. From what I see in the other reviews, I see it isn't something I'm doing but simply a bad product. Too bad because usually Linksys is a good product. I had a dead out of the box DLINK card also in the 802.11a speed so clearly the chipsets at this level aren't totally debugged. Stay clear of this card.
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Summary: Tablet PC Woes with WPC54A
Review: I spent many hours with Linksys Tech trying resolve be inability to make a connection with this card in my ACER Tablet PC running XP Pro all to no avail. The last time I tried to get some result, it locked up and I got a Stop Error message. From what I see in the other reviews, I see it isn't something I'm doing but simply a bad product. Too bad because usually Linksys is a good product. I had a dead out of the box DLINK card also in the 802.11a speed so clearly the chipsets at this level aren't totally debugged. Stay clear of this card.
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Summary: Unending pain and suffering
Review: I've had pretty good luck with other Linksys products in the past, but this thing will drive you insane. I am using a Dell Inspiron 8200 with XP Home Edition and the new Linksys dual band AP. One day it works, the next day it won't...literally. Lots of bluescreens and hangups. Sometimes XP doesn't even see the hardware in Device Manager?!? I found swapping the PCMCIA slot seems to help sometimes, but the connection is pretty unstable even when you are in the same room as the AP. I've tried changing the channels, SSID, and WAP keys, but the bad behavoir continues. Tech support is clueless..they just lecture you on how you have to be within range of the AP...I'm 3 feet away, not in a lead bunker! Now I am stuck with ..useless hardware. My suggestion? Go buy yourself 100' of cat5 cable and you will be a lot happier.
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Summary: Do not spend your hard earned cash on this POS!!
Review: Ok. I bought the WAP54a & a single WPC54a card. I am not kidding when I tell you that this is an orphaned product. The drivers are so buggy that they can hang any machine. I think that most of the problems are related to the physical manufacturing of the WPC54a card itself as I can get a good connection if I physically pull the protruding portion of the card upwards. Other than that, the connection fails miserably. -hrm? Regardless... It's orphaned which means that the mfg simply does not support it in any real fashion.
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Summary: WPC54A problems.
Review: The card installed properly with the shipped drivers on a Win98SE machine, but file transfers stopped every 6-8 seconds for 1 to 2 seconds. Just enough to sometimes disconnect the remote machine. New drivers on Linksys Web page (1.04.00.39) fixed the problem, but disabled Turbo Mode. A call to Linksys confirmed that Turbo Mode has been disabled in the Drivers (at least for Win98SE). A few days later the card began to fail when hot. My retailer swapped the card for a new one. I patched the registry, changing "Turbo Mode" from 0 to 1, and now everything works O.K.
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Summary: Outstanding Product
Review: The WPC54a from Linksys is clearly a must-have for all of your wireless needs. Compatible with the WAP54a, this PC card offers up to 54 Mbps (72 Mbps in turbo mode) throughout your wireless network. Whether it is sharing an Internet connection or playing games within your LAN, you are going to get amazing quality. And, with the great standards and security of 802.11a, this product offers everything you could want. I set mine up in a few short minutes and can now surf the NET anywhere in my house or outside. I recommend to all.
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Summary: DO NOT BUY THIS THING--NEW OR USED!!!
Review: These things do not work. I have two of them that I can't get to function in any PC I put them in. I tried them on Windows 98SE, Windows 2000, Windows XP. One of them totally locks up every PC I put them in. I got the other one to work for about 5 minutes and then it has never worked since.
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Summary: DO NOT BUY THIS THING--NEW OR USED!!!
Review: These things do not work. I have two of them that I can't get to function in any PC I put them in. I tried them on Windows 98SE, Windows 2000, Windows XP. One of them totally locks up every PC I put them in. I got the other one to work for about 5 minutes and then it has never worked since.
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