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Summary: works fine on a Win98 Vaio at home and at work
Review: I attached an SMC EZ-connect access point to a Road Runner cable modem, and with the accompanying SMC card in my Vaio Z505-HS (running Win98), it seems to work just fine. (For my comments about the access point, go to that product)I had to actually run the utility that came with the SMC card before the Vaio could talk to Road Runner. Setting up the network settings from native Win98 was not sufficient. (See next paragraph.) My 3Com AirConnect wireless PC card from work does not seem to be able to talk to the SMC access point. The SMC card works fine on the wireless network at work, so it's not a reciprocal problem. I suspect this may be due to the fact the 3Com driver does not support all the functions that the SMC access point uses, such as channel number. My officemate has a wireless SMC router at home with a Lucent Gold Card and reports it works. (My SMC card works with her router as well.) Overall, the product works fine once you install the utility that comes with it.
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Summary: absolutely fabulous
Review: Got this together with the SMC7004 wireless router, and can't stress how excellent it is. Setup was very straightforward and it has worked perfectly, without even a reboot required after install (under Windows XP). Two very minor caveats: drivers are on diskette only - if like me your laptop doesn't have a floppy, you'll need to burn a CD to transfer the files; and the driver isn't yet validated for use with WinXP but it works fine (I'm writing this on XP now). Possibly the easiest hardware install ever, and a dream after using Intel's appalling Anypoint system.
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Summary: excellent card
Review: The driver configuration was a snap......The only item to mention with win 98 installs.....Make sure that bindings are set to TCP/IP......it is not added by default....It is as simple as going into network config properties, and add protocol....and a new TCP/IP device should be added, therefore also added to the bindings.....A good device......and remember most of these cards are about the same in distance.....don't listen to the b.s from others on this.....they all operate on the 2 ghz spectrum.....at least until the higher spectrums come out......will give a higher bandwidth
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Summary: Novice finds it Easy
Review: Read if you using cable modem
Remember when you purchased a wireless network product - it is still a very young technology and it is not perfect. Get ready to put effort into learning basic network vocabulary - IP address, Domain name, server, Gateway etc.
Once you recieved this product and installed it you will be calling the customer support- "I gurantee It". Be prepared - make it easy on yourself and customers support guys. After what seems to be an interminal wait there is a living breathing soul on the other end of the phone. He or she will guide you through the process of intallation and set up. Take careful notes. You dont want to be wasting your time calling customer service again and again.
I use my wireless card on Sony Lap-Top down-stairs while the Network Bridge is up-stair. My house is about 3500 sq, ft,. Reception (meassured in signal strength and transfer rate shows good to excellent)is very good. You will still have problems once in a while. all you need to do is turn off your cable modem unhook your wireless bridge wait for 30 sec., turn the cable modem then network bridge and try again. This process will solve 98% of your problems once you have it set-up right.
But man what convienience. Imagine lying in your bed comfortably popped up surfing your favourite sites. Read news , mail, shop, chat and when your spouse is asleep hit the (...) sites.
I am having a great time with this device. I am not very tecnical but I am writing to encourage folks to take the wireless plunge. (...)
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Summary: BEEEEEUTIFUL
Review: IBM Thinkpad A21.
EASY install. I am running WINXP now and they already had the upgrade ready! Good reception anywhere in my house.
I have SMC Wireless router and we all share DSL connection. Perfect. You can't get any better. I am VERY happy.
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Summary: Not fully compliant...
Review: I am a college student and bought this card to split between the SMC Router I have for myself and the Cisco Wireless network we have on campus. This DOES NOT work with the Cisco Aironet network, I tried and tried and nothing could be done to fix this. Besides that, though, it's a great bargain of a card and worked flawlessly with the SMC router.
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Summary: Easy install, no issues
Review: + Installed easy under Win2K Server on Dell laptop
+ Decent software package incl. system tray connection health meter - Maximum range not quite as good as Airport card on Apple laptop
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Summary: SMC vs Linksys vs DLink
Review: I own the Linksys Wireless Access Point w/4 port switch and had originally bought the Linksys Wireless card. The SMC access card had better signal quality than the Linksys and a DLink card that was tried with the identical access point placement. I will only buy SMC for all other Wireless adapter cards on our network.
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Summary: plug and play
Review: This was easy to set up
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Summary: No Windows 2000
Review: I have a dual booting Compaq Presario with Win ME and Win 2000 installed. When i received the card, i installed it in my windows ME configuration and everything went smoothly, surfing the web within minutes. Then I went on trying to intall it into Win 2000 which will not work. I tried downloading the newest software and utility to no avail. Everytime i call tech support, i wait on hold for 30 minutes and when a rep eventually picks up, they are rude, and no help. One of reps that handled my call, i could hear them munching chips down their throats and not caring of helping you. All that guy wanted me to do was to move the folder of where the downloaded drivers were (on my desktop) to the root directory and had me try reinstalling. Another rep just suggested to reinstall Win 2000, which i did many times even before calling customer rep. It is pitiful that SMC has such bad customer reps. I have received the card for about 10 days now and still not able to get it to work in Win 2000. I also purchased the barricade wireless router w/printer server and that have been working great with my desktop and wireless laptop using Win ME. If you plan to use it with Win 2000, don't even bother buying this card.
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