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Summary: Not bad at first.... but...
Review: I purchased the Intel Anypoint 1.6MB wireless USB for the desktop and PC card for the laptop. Currently use digital cable Internet. This wireless network uses the same type of 2.4Ghz system that wireless phones use.
Setup was flawless on the desktop. Laptop took a little support from the Intel web page. It seems that this system and Mcafee VirusScan has some conflicts that have to be adjusted by the user. After that, everything worked great.
I can see and access the other computer's drives with ease. Internet downloads requested from the laptop go from the Internet, through the desktop, through the air from the desktop's adapter, and received by the laptop's adapter.
I took my laptop outside and reception was still excellent. I would estimate that I could go 60 ft in open space or 40 feet through walls and still get excellent reception.
If you are looking for a lower cost home networking system that is wireless, this would be a good one for you.
I do recommend something faster that 56k for Internet though...56k on one computer is bad enough. Imagine sharing it between two or more computers on the same network. Yuck!Revised- I got tired of dealing with the problems and sold them. 1 desktop device and 1 laptop device. The network would stop connecting every time I would install some new software like Netscape 6.1, IE6.0, Office 2000 pro, and JDK1.3.1. Three time I had to unistall....remove devices...delete left over files and reinstall. I also used the new software that you can download from the intel site.... when it was working, it was great.... excellent internet access from my laptop and file swapping was easy.... But, once it went down...you are in trouble.... I got tired of it....so tired that I got rid of it for good.
Rating: 
Summary: Does the job
Review: I've been using this adapter to share an internet connection with my computer in my Basement. Upstairs I have a laptop and it's great to be able to move it around the house without loosing connectivity. While the adapter works fine, I was less happy with the connection sharing software included with it - yet another thing to start at boottime that sits in your little system tray. It was not very configurable and I had weird issues where I would have to restart brower windows and the like. I ended up disabling that software and using different sharing software (...) and everything has been working great. One annoying thing is I can't put the laptop to "sleep" and have it wake up and use the thing, you have to reboot. At the time I bought it (little over a year ago) they didn't support win2K except with some beta drivers that I used and have been working fine for me for over a year. One caveat - since I bought this over a year ago I would hope that Intel has improved the software some. For my purposes it's been ideal, though.
Rating:
Summary: Does the job
Review: I've been using this adapter to share an internet connection with my computer in my Basement. Upstairs I have a laptop and it's great to be able to move it around the house without loosing connectivity. While the adapter works fine, I was less happy with the connection sharing software included with it - yet another thing to start at boottime that sits in your little system tray. It was not very configurable and I had weird issues where I would have to restart brower windows and the like. I ended up disabling that software and using different sharing software (...) and everything has been working great. One annoying thing is I can't put the laptop to "sleep" and have it wake up and use the thing, you have to reboot. At the time I bought it (little over a year ago) they didn't support win2K except with some beta drivers that I used and have been working fine for me for over a year. One caveat - since I bought this over a year ago I would hope that Intel has improved the software some. For my purposes it's been ideal, though.
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