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D-Link DWL-650 Wireless 802 11b PC Card
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Rating: 2.88/5 from 139 reviews Recommended Buy if on a Budget, but still want QualityI bought this because a friend of mine has a D-Link Wireless Router and I like to use his Internet Connection because I still only have a 56K. Since he already has a DI-713P I didn't have to make any configuration changes to my DWL-650 PC Card. Everything worked out of the box. I did have to change my network settings a bit, but the manual shows how all of that is done. Coupled with his DI-713P I get good signal strength anywhere in his home, even a little bit outside. Once I can afford Cable Speeds I will definately have this set-up, or whatever might replace the DWL-650 or DI-713P int he future. The sure thing is that I will buy D-Link ofr it's ease of use and reliability. I am a very pleased customer. Works with Airport, but support stinksI purchase the DWL-650 for my ThinkPad T21 so I could connect to my Apple AirPort network and share files and the internet. The good news is that the setup is easy and I had no problems getting it to work with my G4 software base station. The G4 will dial in when ever I need to use a internet connection on the ThinkPad. The range is poor when compared to my ibook, but you need to realize that the ibook has a large built-in antenna for wireless networking. The antenna on the D-link card is just not as good. One thing that I need to keep in mind is that the laptop cannot be between the card antenna and the basestation. If this is the case my connection will drop off completely... even when I'm just 10 feet away! With the laptop oriented in the correct direction I can access the base station from two rooms away (25 feet and several walls) with good perfromance. One problem: When I'm working without the d-link card installed and the ThinkPad wakes from being in sleep mode (stand-by in terms Win2000) I get 5-10 messages in a row asking if the d-link card is inserted. The message boxes only have an Ok button. d-link support never returned my emails and left me on hold for 15 minutes one day. I'm just getting use to clicking ok 10 times Easy install - seems to loose the connection from time to tiI'm using my D-Link DWL-650 with D-Links DWL-1000AP. The combination seems to work just fine. Installing the PC-CARD was easy. Don't follow the manual if you're on NT - just install the driver, reboot and plug the card in. It works great from there. Only minus (why I only give it 4 stars) is that it seems to suddently drop the communication, even when there is full signal. Which high-bandwidth requirements, I have to rescan for the Access Point about every 5th minut - as the Tx and Rx goes to zero. Which normal use (surfing, network stuff etc) I haven't seen this problem yet. | ||||||||||||||||
