Customer Reviews

D-Link DCF-660w Wireless CompactFlash Adapter

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3 star:		(2)
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1 star:		(4)

 

 

I was in the market for a CF Wi-Fi card for my iPaq H3955. Had intended to purchase either the Socket or Symbol cards, but then I found this card at Best Buy. Smaller than the previous D-Link card (DCF-650W), but not quite as small as the Symbol or Socket. Price was right though. ... Power consumption seems fine- using with the CF-Plus Expansion Back, get at least a couple hours before the first low CF battery warning. Extends above the CF sleeve about a half-inch. Software installation was smooth and painless. The card itself has an LED to indicate operation. Bringing up the card settings does offer a complete set of options, including infrastrucure or ad-hoc operation, and the documentation explains how to set up the card to work with any public hotspot. WEP works fine with my Linksys WAP. Detractor: does not have any kind of indicator on the Today screen as to signal strength. Also, no carrying case for the card.

I got this card for my Dell Axim, and it's pretty good. I'm very pleased with ease of installation, quality of signal, and battery life lasts a couple of hours on my Axim. I recommend it against any other card out there(except Symbol and Socket, which are excellent cards but cost almost twice as much). D

This product works great with a Dell Axim. It took all of 10min. to set up and get connected to my university's wireless 802.11b network. Just perfect!!!

I bought this for my Sharp Zaurus. Works great; doesn't need a driver installed; doesn't block the stylus or the headphone jack; gives pretty decent performance. Only real problem is a bug in the standard, not the device: WEP is about as effective as hanging a "please do not steal" sign on the Hope Diamond before leaving it on a bench in Central Park. If you're going to set up any kind of wireless LAN, get yourself a VPN--I'm running PPP over SSH, and I'm fairly confident nobody's going to break into my LAN or hijack my external link.

I have an Hewlett-Packard iPAQ 2215 and I was looking for a wireless card to connect to my campus's wireless network. This is a pretty good card, like most D-Link products are. It can establish and maintain a connection very well, both indoors and outdoors. The software comes on a CD, which is active-synched to your PDA. It is a fairly simple and routine procedure to setup the card to access the network.

So far the only complaint I have is that you sometime have to push the card in hard in order for the PDA to pick it up. I occationally have to pull the card out and reinsert it before it starts working.

If you don't have a PDA already, I would recomend getting one with integrated wireless since you won't have the reciever end sticking out of the PDA. However, if you are just looking for a wireless card, then I would recomend this one.

I have this CF card running on a 56XX series IPAQ with the upgraded PocketPC 2002 OS. HUGE TIP- unless the disk they are sending has updated drivers, download the drivers from Dlink. It isn't that the older drivers on the CD don't work (they do), but the new drivers on the website add tons of funcionality such as an Orinoco like icon on the bottom of the today screen that monitors signal strength. It also adds the ability to browse AP's within the DCF-660W's reach (hotspot searches). These (as well as the old ones) installed flawlessly and after a soft reset to load the drives worked well once the proper IP, SSID, and WEP settings were set.

I find the range from my router, a Dlink 614+, decent for such a small device, but definitely shorter that my old lucent chipped Orinoco and Avaya PCMCIA WiFi cards. A great product overall, time will tell how well it holds up.

I purchased this CF Wi-Fi card for my Dell Axim X5 400Mhz and was unable to get it to connect to my Netgear router. I tried the drivers that came with the disk and could not get it to work. I then downloaded the updated drivers from D-Link and still could not get it to connect. Spoke with Level 3 support from D-Link and they said to try exchanging the Compact Flash card for a new one. Amazon did this for me without hesitation and had a new D-Link CF card to me within 2 days. Unfortunately, the new card would still not connect. I then purchased the Ambicom CF Wireless Card. It installed and worked perfectly immediately. Unless you have a D-Link Wi-Fi router, you should consider purchasing with caution.

Worked flawlessly out of the box with my Zaurus SL-5600, and haven't had a problem with the card not fitting correctly and securely in the CF slot. I tried every mode (AdHoc, Infastructure) and had no problems connecting with either one. Its quite sensitive and I was able to connect to my AP from anywhere in my house through several walls, and even from a good distance outside. Its a good buy in my book; haven't had any problems, and don't forsee any in the future.

I was up and running in just a couple of minutes out of the package with an iPaq 2215. Downloaded the latest drivers from the D-Link website, plugged it in and was asked which of the two connections available I wanted to connect to. (I don't have a wireless access point, but apparently two people in my apartment building do!) Worked even better when I was actually near an access point.

I was up and running with this little device in less than 10 minutes using my iPAQ. The ability to access my home server via Terminal Server from my favorite coffee shop hangout is priceless. Highly recommended!