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I spent 4 days (about 1-3 hours per day)with phone tech support unable to solve this problem. Although I love Linksys routers, this wireless adapter card for notebooks was a nightmare. They finally did me the "favor" of charging me ten dollars to control my pc remotely, only to ultimately tell me there is nothing they can do and I should return the product. My gateway pc met all the system requirements, however the adapter required an additional driver update from gateway that was not listed. The adapter froze my computer and I was unable to uninstall the adapter. And they never refunded the ten dollars. This product may be in fact great, but be wary of hidden driver updates and terrible tech support.
With this card, I seem to drop out every few minutes (which is a shame because my other cards are still only 802.11b and this one supports WPA instead of the weaker WEP). I don't know if subsequent revisions may be improved).We have several wireless computing devices on our 802.11b/g home network. (This is for the Version 2 adapter. As a result of the drop outs it's all but useless for connecting to my office VPN when I'm working at home, given the hassle of reconnecting to it. Of all these devices, this card has (by far) the most reception problems no matter where you place it. I have a Dell laptop for my work and I can put two other cards in it and almost never lose connection. A relatively ancient Belkin card I have, on the other hand, locks on to any decent wireless signal. Unfortunately the old Belkin only supports WEP and is only 11 Mbps, but it shows that the drop outs on this Linksys card aren't a result of weak signals.Maybe subsequent revisions of this card got it right, but when I can't pull in more than about 30% signal strength with consistency and lose connection every few minutes, it's not really anything I can recommend in the revision I own.
Like brand new, received it in the original box, software included. It works like a charm. The price was unbelievably reasonable. WOW.
I bought this item for my father. it is easy to use, and work great. my father love it so much.
Works great.easy to install in minutes and all my laptops work fine. Could use a range extender.
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