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I've had this card about two months now and it has worked perfect. Installation was very simple; Windows Vista Ultimate installed drivers for this card on its own.
Then of course a yellow exclamation mark shows up so tried various drivers: from the ones provided on the Linksys CD to the Linksys.com online v4.1 to the ones from Ralink, nothing worked.I did read the reviews prior to purchasing this item but since I had worked in tech support and have been using Linksys for years I figured "Ehh, it'll be fine, I'll figure a way to make it work." I guess I'll figure it out eventually but for now this Linksys adapter is an expensive dust collector.Thank you for your time. I typically do not like giving bad reviews but since Amazon keeps sending email reminders about reviewing purchased products then here we go: great price, very fast shipping, great packaging, arrived in perfect condition. Installed but Windows XP would not recognize that adapter is present, had to "force" XP to recognize there is a card in there by doing a manual install.
Installed in minutes, works great. I purchased this for an older second computer that didn't have wireless networking capabilitiy.
Not a computer expert but look for the cd when you open the box because it does say to install the cd first, which I didn't do. I bought this yesterday at bestbuy and price matched with Micro Center's price for [.]. With my setup, the distance between the router and this is about 40 feet. But I didn't have any problem with installing the adapter first. Works fine with my 9 year old Dell Dimension 4300. Easy setup.
Another technical note, it recommends for higher security to disable your SSID signal so it does not show as a network available for others in your area. Ordered from Amazon and shipped super fast - was easy to install didn't even need my hubby's help. It sometimes would eventually find the connection but not always like our laptops do so I recommend keeping SSID signal broadcast when using this adapter and just use the security (WEP) key and MAC filters(your router should have these) to keep your wireless router private.So for us good buy :-) When we diabled this signal on our router, the adapter did not auto connect to the router/internet when we turned the computer on. We switched providers and didn't want to have to run cords or have new outlet installed where our home pc sits so this was a great fix, adding this equipment to our tower took maybe 20 minutes at best.For the technical stuff, info provided in box didn't explain that would have its own MAC address besides the MAC address my computer had (maybe this was to be inferred, guess I am not the computer saavy) so when I was setting up MAC filter on the Linksys wireless router we already had I kept seeing a new MAC address and didn't see the one for my computer. After some review of properties on CMD I figured it out.
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