pc cards

I was using this PCMCIA wireless card with an old SONY Vaio laptop with windows 98se installed, and it worked great. (I'm also using the SMC 2804WBR router as a WAP). Now I upgraded to Compaq Presario 2199US with AMD Athalon and WIndows XP (SP1a) and the board looses the connection every 30 seconds or so at a distance of 60 feet. I've tried installing the latest drivers, searchig the web for answers, but no luck yet. I have found the SMC router to work great and it was cheap, however, their tech support, manuals, web site, and documentation all stink. Personally, I would stay away from this card unless you like wasting alot of time.

I bought two of these cards along with the Barricade router. The cards worked flawlessly for several weeks. Now, they work for a few minutes, and then crap out. They can see the network, but not connect. Interesting that this happens with both cards, and with two different laptops.

Junk.

I recently purchased 2 of these and a SMC Barricade G router for home and work. While the Barricade router works great. These cards are junk.

On a Dell Inspiron 8200, the card crashes the machine on reboot if the card is plugged into the PC Card Slot. Then after about 4 weeks of intermittent use, it refused to connect to any network.

On an older Compaq Laptop, the card worked fine for about 3 weeks of constant use. Then it refused to connect to any network.

After this experience with these SMC cards, I purchased 2 Proxim Orinoco silver b/g cards. After 6 weeks I have not had a single problem with the Orinoco cards.

For your own sake, do not even consider these SMC cards.