Netgear FA-510 10/100Mbps 32-Bit Cardbus Adaptor for Notebook PCs

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Summary: FA-510 Installs Easily
Review: This device almost fell into my system by itself. I have a Compaq Presario 12XL310 with Windows ME. The software detected and installed the card automatically. I was online to my LAN in far less than 5 minutes. Although they are all somewhat fragile, the "dongle" seems nice quality.

Rating:
Summary: FA-510 Installs Easily
Review: This device almost fell into my system by itself. I have a Compaq Presario 12XL310 with Windows ME. The software detected and installed the card automatically. I was online to my LAN in far less than 5 minutes. Although they are all somewhat fragile, the "dongle" seems nice quality.

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Summary: Netgear Equals Superb Service
Review: This holiday season I was a good santa and purchased numerous wireless networking products for my various family members. Sure it was partially a selfish act as I wanted to be able to easily connect when I went to visit, but for the most part it was just an act of giving. I purchased mainly G products and they varied from routers to USB adapters to PC Card adapters. I did also purchase a couple of B products for those in the family that already had some wireless networking products (yes, I know they are backwards compatible but I didn't want to take any chances).

Only two members of the family had installation problems (considering my family is very non-technical I was quite impressed) and those two people both had yet to upgrade to Windows XP SP2. The rest of the family members were up and running within minutes.

As for the couple of family members that did have problems, well they called me first (of course) and I told them to just run back through the installation procedure again. This solved the problem for Uncle Dennis but Grandma Joyce still couldn't get it to work properly. I reluctantly told her to call Netgear's technical support (hey the reviews on Amazon haven't been too pretty for their tech support). I however was quite pleased when an hour later I got an email from Grandma Joyce thanking me for the great gift. I called her back and she told me that after fiddling with the settings with the Netgear people she was up and running within 30 minutes.

Overall, I consider this the ultimate test of product quality and support and I would give Netgear two thumbs up.

I hope this review was helpful to you in putting your mind at ease regarding ease of setup and trust of technical support if needed.

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Summary: Dont' dare
Review: This is terrible product. The connection between the network card and yout note book depends on a connecting wire which gets destroyed easily. No oned carry the accessory, so you have to order it fro about [money amount]+ S&H

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Summary: Windows NT nightmare
Review: This product is not well supported for the Windows NT environment. They blame the configuration problems on the laptop manufacturer who in turn blames Netgear. The real culprit is probably NT, but Netgear they shouldn't advertise it for NT if they can't support it.