phone line networking

I've read all the reviews before installing this card. What I found out is that the software that comes with it (LanBridge) which allow one to use internet sharing, as well as setting up one computer as a server, works find on 98SE OS but will not on computers with Windows ME OS. I wrote the company who owns the software and they pointed out that they do not support Windows ME only Windows NT, 2000, 95 and 98. Thanks a lot.

The Linksys HomeLink Phoneline card works great. I set up MS Home Network on both computers (98se and ME) and it so easy to use. The file sharing allows me to use my ME computers CD-R to rip MP3 files from my 98se computer. And it is less money than others out there. Great buy for what it dose. I've just purchased the Linksys cable router and their Broadband Network Bridge to allow each computer their own cable access.

I am a novice to home networking. That is why I purchased the Linksys HomeLink Phoneline cards.

This product is EXCELLENT!! A quick and easy way to create a home (or small office) network without extra cabling or hassle. After quickly installing the PCI cards into the PC's I was up and running on my home network - about 10 minutes total. No need for special network configuration, IP mapping, or anything else.

The connection has proven to be a blessing. Days after installing the cards I had a problem on one of my machines and need to resintall the OS. I had several gigabytes of data that I wanted to keep (lots of scanned images) and didnt want to use zip disk. I copied the data over the LAN and voila! The performance was outstanding. Unfortunately I didnt measure the actual speed I attained, but the 10mb speed is definitely enough for most home uses.

THE NEGATIVE: the LanBridge software isnt the best. Its okay but I prefer the WinGate product which I use to share my internet connection between my machine. LanBridge required a bit more network tinkering.

This product worked great for me and was very easy to set up. I wasn't too pleased with the Internet LanBridge software that came with it, though. Also lacking were details of where to download the drivers for Linux. The first information I found gave me erroneous details about which driver to use and eventually got lucky when someone told me where the obscure FTP site was to download the correct driver ... I also did not like the fact that it had to be opened in Windows and was not a *.tar.gz or *.rpm file. Once the driver was found and installed, it worked great and was easy to set up. I have installed this on Windows 98SE, Mandrake Linux 8.1, and Windows 2000 Professional with no problems except those minor ones mentioned earlier. I read another review that said that Windows XP includes the drivers, but the XP hardware compatibility test told me the device was questionable, so I have not tried it with XP.