pc cards

I've had a wireless network for over a year but the signal strength of my connection has always been poor once I get very far from my router so I thought I'd try this card.

It's great.

I did have some initial problems with it and my router despite following all the directions in their manual. I called SMC's technical support line though and got great help.

Turns out that with my Windows XP SP 1 system, despite directions and suggestions to the contrary, the High Power Utility software that comes with the card caused problems. On my system. While I could see that I had a strong connection between the card and the router the card could not reliably get an IP address back from the router. After uninstalling everything - the utility and driver, and then just installing the driver - no High Power Utility - my Internet connection started working! Reliably.

I can go all over our house and yard and get a good strong signal. It's amazing.

The card works and the support I got from SMC, while I wish I had not needed it, was wonderful.

5 stars!

way better than the dlink dwl-g650 rev b i bought which wasn't picking up any signals... i'd have to work near the router in order to get a signal. i think the card was defective. i didnt have any problems installing this smc card on windows xp, put in the cd that came with the card (and i did not install their utility), plugged in the card while my laptop was on, windows asked for drivers, automatically searched and found the drivers which were on the cd. so far im getting 'excellent' signal strength from where i used to get annoying "low"/"no connection available".

I had Netgear WT511 card, it worked well in the house but not far from outside the house. Then I read a lot about SMC high power card and bought one, you know what I cannot connect even from within house. Then I checked the signal intensity, Netgear has 50% but SMC only has only 30%. What a terrible card!!!